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6 06, 2014

Heartland: Chris Christie Administration Endorses Obama’s Carbon Dioxide Restrictions (Quotes E&E Legal’s Tom Tanton)

2014-06-09T11:20:43-04:00June 6th, 2014|"Climate Change", Media Coverage, Tanton|

James M. Taylor Managing Editor of Environment & Climate News As Appearing in Heartland Institute's heartlander magazine The Chris Christie administration broke ranks with prominent Republicans and moderate Democrats by endorsing the Obama administration’s attack on affordable energy, with a New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection spokesman saying the Department and the Christie administration welcomed [...]

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28 05, 2014

Human Events: Bad Oil News is Much Ado About Very Little (E&E Legal’s Tom Tanton Quoted)

2014-05-28T13:26:52-04:00May 28th, 2014|Fracking, Media Coverage, Tanton|

by Steven Greenhut Human Events SACRAMENTO — Environmentalists are gleeful at the news reported last week by the U.S. Energy Information Administration that the amount of recoverable oil from California’s Monterey Shale formation — predicted to be the nation’s largest reserve of oil — is a whopping 96-percent below original production estimates. In response, more than 100 environmental groups signed [...]

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9 05, 2014

energybiz: New Renewable Energy Technologies: Status and Prospects – Part 2 – Wind Power (cites E&E Legal’s Hidden Cost of Wind study)

2016-12-11T17:07:59-05:00May 9th, 2014|Hidden Cost of Wind, Media Coverage, Tanton|

by Bryan Leyland energybiz Wind power has been around for thousands of years. More than 300 years ago large areas of Holland and the Fens in the UK were drained using wind driven pumps. Because they were expensive to build and operate and the wind often did not blow when it was needed, they were [...]

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19 03, 2014

Tanton: Bio-Oil Mandate? More Pain, No Gain

2014-03-19T14:49:57-04:00March 19th, 2014|Media Coverage, Tanton|

by Tom Tanton E&E Legal Director, Science & Technology Assessment As appearing in Fox & Hounds There’s an old saying:  if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.  In California, we seem to have an addiction to believing that if a new “green” product sounds good, it must be good. But ironically, [...]

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13 02, 2014

Tanton: Making ethanol is wasting California’s water

2014-02-20T14:52:39-05:00February 13th, 2014|Media Coverage, Tanton|

by Tom Tanton E&E Legal Director, Science & Technology Assessment Opinion, Fresno Bee President Obama's visit to Fresno will hopefully bring some much-needed clarification as to how the federal government plans to help California battle the devastating drought in the near-term. Unfortunately, the administration's continued support of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) works counter to [...]

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6 02, 2014

Heartlander Magazine: Nebraska Sues EPA over Power Plant CO2 Restrictions

2014-02-10T12:08:22-05:00February 6th, 2014|Media Coverage, Tanton, War on Coal|

by Alyssa Carducci Heartlander Magazine The State of Nebraska has filed a suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for overreaching restrictions on carbon emissions from coal-power plants. Bankrupting Coal Power Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning filed the suit January 15 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska. Bruning and Nebraska state [...]

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29 11, 2013

The Energy Collective: A More Realistic Cost of Wind Energy

2016-12-11T17:08:17-05:00November 29th, 2013|Energy, Tanton, Taylor|

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 [...]

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29 10, 2013

Leakage, Carbon Taxes, And Early Warnings

2016-12-11T17:08:17-05:00October 29th, 2013|Carbon Tax, Tanton|

A recent paper by Cullenward and Weiskopf of Stanford University’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program lends additional gravitas to an important message E&E Legal’s Tom Tanton has been pointing out for years: California's cap-and-trade program could end up causing larger net global emissions of greenhouse gasses than without the regulations. Cullenward and [...]

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29 09, 2013

Tanton: Getting away from biofuels

2013-09-29T17:40:11-04:00September 29th, 2013|Media Coverage, Renewable Energy, Tanton|

by Tom Tanton, Director of Science and Technology Assessment Stockton Record Last week marked the end of the 2013 legislative session. Despite the annual ritual of political gamesmanship, party leaders actually came together in a rare act of solidarity to oppose a controversial energy policy being implemented by the Obama Administration. As I testified to Congress [...]

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1 08, 2013

TANTON: Casualties of the war on coal

2013-09-28T17:07:47-04:00August 1st, 2013|Media Coverage, Personnel, Tanton, War on Coal|

by Tom Tanton,  Director of Science & Technology Assessment Washington Times A war on coal is underway, instigated by a few opposition groups with powerful voices. The World Bank’s announcement to oppose the financing of coal plants overseas is only the latest development in the ongoing debate, which recently found its way onto the editorial page of [...]

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