by Alyssa Carducci Heartland Magazine The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined it would be safe to operate a nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The NRC completed the last two volumes of its five-volume safety evaluation in January... Tom Tanton, president of T 2 & Associates, a consulting firm to the energy and [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science &Technology Assessment and Katy Grimes, Flash Report Senior Correspondent Flash Report Many in America have grown convinced the world would become Utopia if it wasn’t for evil, dirty oil. Ironically, these oil critics are always successful beneficiaries of the U.S. free enterprise system. When they demonize oil profits, they show just how [...]
by Amy Oliver Cooke Executive Vice President, Independence Institute and Senior Media Fellow, E&E Legal Published in The Tribune “Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun,” wrote environmental doomsday prophet Dr. Paul Ehrlich in 1975. That’s a cruel statement directed at people who simply want [...]
by Willem Post The Energy Collective Like the corn-to-ethanol and solar industries, the Big Wind industry basks in political correctness and political favoritism. Big Wind has grown comfortable in its dependence on federal and state governments that decide which energy industries will be winners or losers — discrimination enforced by squeezing taxpayers, rigging the tax [...]
Washington, D.C. - The American Tradition Institute (ATI) yesterday joined eight other free market groups, including the American Energy Institute (AEI), in support of Rep. Tim Murphy's (R-Pa.) amendment to H.R. 1582, The Energy Consumers Relief Act of 2013. The organizations, in a letter to Members of the 113th Congress, asked Congress to strongly consider the Murphy amendment which, [...]
