The Supreme Court in early April upheld an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision to consider costs as well benefits in setting requirements for utilities to overhaul cooling water intake systems…
Power
Monthly Issue | May 28, 2009
What role will coal play as the nation moves toward trying to reduce greenhouse gases? The picture is mixed, as these news stories from around the country demonstrate. Kan. Legislature…
The Obama administration has given itself an extraordinarily powerful tool that could help the president achieve all three of his top domestic goals at once—but only if he has the…
Bad bosses are an endemic problem in the management of today’s businesses. We have all suffered from the dysfunctional effects of lousy managers. In my experience, to steal from Gresham’s…
Don’t count coal out when it comes to the down-and-dirty details of the energy marketplace, despite the political rhetoric coming from Washington-based environmental groups, many in Congress, and the Obama…
The conventional wisdom about uranium fuel—that demand is steady, supplies are adequate, and prices will be stable—is wrong, according to three experts at an online seminar sponsored by The Energy…
Plug-in hybrid cars could get a boost from new technology developed at the DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). But they could also add electric demand that could crash the…
Where’s the best place to work in the federal government? The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), according to U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). According to the OPM’s “Federal Human…
The electric power industry is about to become the battleground for one of the great political struggles in American history. The troops are all lined up. The rhetorical cannons are…
Last March, in Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper Inc., [PDF] the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s use of cost-benefit analysis in regulating water pollution by…