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U.S. Elections vs. the Environment: The Stigma of Successful Regulation
The current administration’s environmental policies have frequently been a disappointment, but the choice in the November elections seems sure to be between disappointment and disaster. Continue reading
Unequal Risks and Benefits for Citizens in Six States on Keystone XL Pipeline Route
In Kansas, for example, lawmakers gave TransCanada a 10-year tax exemption, which means the state won’t receive any property tax revenue from the pipeline. Meanwhile, each of the other five states—Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas—would earn between $14 million and $63 million a year, according to U.S. State Department estimates. Continue reading
Is the EPA Really a ‘Jobs Killer’?
Industry-paid studies often include questionable assumptions and economic models not validated by broad peer review. Jobs could also be created, not just destroyed, by regulation. The EPA’s rules are required to undergo a transparent cost-benefit analysis that is peer reviewed by others. The idea that environmental regulations would wipe out an industry or have a serious impact is implausible. Early estimates of cleanup costs are invariably wildly overstated. Continue reading
EPA Empowered to Oversee Shale Extraction
Production from shale formations has grown from a negligible amount just a few years ago to almost 15 percent of total U.S. natural gas production and this share is expected to triple in the coming decades. By 2035, natural gas, generally, will make up about 45 percent of the utility generation market. Continue reading
No to the Keystone XL Pipeline
Economists have demonstrated that the pipeline, by offering new markets for the tar sands oil, is likely to substantially raise the price of gasoline in the Midwest, an effect that may be large enough to kill more jobs than the pipeline creates. Continue reading
Clean Up Big Coal
Sunflower management chose and continues to choose the low road, corrupting the licensing and now the extension processes Continue reading
Nebraska Governor Urges Obama to Deny Pipeline Permit
By Grant Schulte for Associated Press (via the Lawrence Journal World) Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman urged President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday to deny a federal permit for a pipeline that would carry Canadian … Continue reading
Clean Coal Research is a Waste of Money
By Stephen Luntz for ABC Environment Despite the millions of dollars being directed at carbon capture and storage technology, it will never deliver on its promise. The 2011 budget was not a favourable one for carbon capture and storage (CCS). Over … Continue reading
Clean Energy Standard Challenges Coal
By Ken Silverstein for EnergyBiz If a Clean Energy Standard is enacted, what will that mean for fossil fuels? Interestingly, the emphasis on the development of sustainable fuels is not at the exclusion of coal and natural gas. President Obama … Continue reading
Public Comments on Keystone Have Disappeared Into a Procedural Black Hole
In July, when the Sierra Club checked the website that Carno Entrix maintains for the State Department, it found that the company’s count came up short by 94,000 comments. About 25,000 of the missing comments were written by Sierra Club members. The State Department did not respond to questions about the missing comments or a request for an interview. Cardno Entrix referred questions to the State Department. Continue reading →