by David W. Schnare General Counsel Eventually the will of the consumers will win out, regardless of the advertising to which they are subjected and even in the politically correct but economically stupid renewable energy business. The political and bureaucratic dynamics of the renewables market have worked toward supporting uneconomic energy like wind and solar [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As Appearing in The Sacramento Bee The Center of Biological Diversity’s relentless campaign against domestic energy production in California has reached new lows for distortions and fear-mongering. The opinion piece the group published in The Sacramento Bee was a case in point (“Fracking wastewater threatens [...]
by Chris Dickerson West Virginia Record CHARLESTON – West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Feb. 3 signed House Bill 2001, repealing the West Virginia Alternative Renewable Energy Portfolio Act. “In 2009 when the Legislature approved West Virginia’s Alternative Renewable Energy Portfolio, the act had overwhelming support from business and industry,” Tomblin said in a [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland According to Burnett: Energy expert [and E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment] Tom Tanton discusses is Reason Foundation study, Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Renewable Portfolio Standards: A Guide for Policymakers, which found serious flaws federal energy laboratories analysis of the benefits and costs of state renewable [...]
by Tony Flesor Law Week Colorado Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standard is facing challenges on two fronts: in the courts and in the legislature... Last year, the RES temporarily survived an attempt to remove it when a Colorado District Court judge ruled against the activist group, the Environment and Energy Legal Institute, which goes by the [...]
By Tom Tanton, E&E Legal's Director of Science and Technology Assessment, and Julian Morris Reason Magazine More than half the states have renewable portfolio standards in place requiring certain and growing percentages of electricity to come from specified sources. Are these policies providing society with measurable benefit? Are they too costly for what they provide? [...]
by Bonner R. Cohen Heartlander Magazine Sitting on opposite sides of the fence, refiners and producers of biofuels are anxiously awaiting a decision by the Obama administration on the amount of renewable fuels Washington will mandate for use in the transportation sector. In November 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a significant reduction in [...]
By Samantha Caravello Harvard Environmental Law Review Acting as laboratories for energy policy, some states have been much more effective than the federal government in promoting renewable energy development, often through the enactment of Renewable Portfolio Standards (“RPS”). RPSs require electricity-selling companies to generate a minimum percentage of their electricity from renewable sources. These minimum targets [...]
by Mica Rosenberg Reuters Fuel producers are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge to California's landmark low carbon fuel standard, the first of a series of cases seeking to roll back state renewable energy laws around the country... In Colorado, a conservative non-profit group called the Energy & Environment Legal Institute sued [...]
The Institute for Energy Research (IER) cited an E&E Legal study, "The Hidden Cost of Wind Electricty," when testifying in front of the Kansas Senate Standing Committee on Utilities arguing against the state's Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs). Click here for IER's testimony.
