by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Missoulian The idea of Montana doing things “the California way” doesn’t make much sense. Unfortunately, Montanans might not have a choice if the Obama administration has its way. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon finalize the Clean Power Plan, [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Las Vegas Review-Journal The idea of Nevada doing things “the California way” doesn’t make much sense. Unfortunately, Nevadans might not have a choice if the Obama administration has its way. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon finalize the Clean [...]
by Jeff Swiatek Indianapolis Star Credit the ice ages for making Indiana a good place to turn wind into electricity. All that glacial action scoured flat the northern half of the state and sculpted the perfect terrain for wind turbines. A few million years later, the Environmental Protection Agency is about to use regulatory fiat [...]
by Bonner Cohen Heartlander Magazine In response to Gov. Jerry Brown’s (D) call to adopt more aggressive targets to combat climate change, California lawmakers are considering several approaches to force state residents to reduce fossil fuel use and increase the volume of renewable and alternative fuels used. In his January State of the State address, [...]
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 [...]
