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 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 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 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 Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment Real Clear Markets Representatives from the U.S. and 195 other countries are meeting in Lima, Peru for the 20th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, hoping to lay the foundation for a major treaty to reduce global [...]
by Tom Tanton Senior Fellow, Reason Director of Science and Technology Assessment, E&E Legal Intermittent renewable energy sources like wind and solar are growing in use largely because of government regulations, favorable tax treatment and mandates. However, they impose hidden “integration” costs on the electrical grid that are shifted to California consumers and utility companies [...]
by Nick Snow Oil & Gas Journal US states that embraced hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling staged stronger economic recoveries than those that did not since 2008 when the country plunged into recession, an economist told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee. “In those states that have chosen to pursue energy development, output and jobs have grown faster than [...]
by Marty Irby Surf KY News Group WASHINGTON (7/24/14) — The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), held a hearing on 'Laboratories of Democracy: The Economic Impacts of State Energy Policies.' The hearing examined the economic impacts from the differing energy policies of the various states, as well as how federal [...]
For Immediate Release: July 24, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] E&E Legal’s Tom Tanton to Testify Before U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Power Hearing on the Economic Impacts of State and Federal Energy Policies Washington, D.C. – Today, Tom Tanton, Director of Science and Technology Assessment for the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), [...]
