Thought Piece How can regulatory body regulate an industry that they are 10 years behind? How Trump and promise of FCC reform are already spurring economic growth December 8, 2016 | By Scott Cleland The growth starts now. The unexpected presidential election of a very successful builder and value creator determined to spur economic and employment [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins Gina is an unrepentant and a zealous climate change alarmist, with a little too much self-congratulation in her latest interviews for my tastes. Her certainty and biases will not be missed by the US energy revolution: and arguably, her lack of independence from the White House has politicized the EPA beyond [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins The new Michael Lewis book promises to develop a theme that has become a part of the environmental narrative: Scientists and environmentalists who maintain certainty when predicting the future of the planet. Also, the human bias to misremember their previous predictions as being correct. I have been advocating humility for visionaries, predictors, futurists, [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [Arguably, air pollution is still a more deadly killer than greenhouse gases, if a little less mysterious and environmentally sexy. Steve] Global Pollution Map Is Astonishing: 5 Takeaways Originally Posted December 2, 2016 9:42 am | By James Taylor, Forbes Opinion I am president of the Spark of Freedom Foundation. Opinions expressed by Forbes [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins Post Share A political temper tantrum at the FCC December 01, 2016 - 07:28 AM EST | By By Lawrence Spiwack, The Hill The United States just went through a brutal election season. Politics is a nasty game. But now that the election is over, we must - in the immortal words [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins Green Elites, Trumped The planet will benefit if the climate movement is purged of its rottenness. Originally Posted November 16, 2016 | By Holman Jenkins Jr, Wall Street Journal, Opinion Hysterical, in both senses of the word, is the reaction of greens like Paul Krugman and the Sierra Club to last [...]
[Oops! I wrote yesterday that "Gina McCarthy has announced that the EPA has effectively stopped working on a cap and trade scheme and their other ambitious plans related to the Clean Power Plan (CPP), Waters of the United States (WOTUS), etc. to prepare for the orderly transfer of power." Self-righteousness rarely goes quietly into that good night "and the [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [Gina McCarthy has announced that the EPA has effectively stopped working on a cap and trade scheme and their other ambitious plans related to the Clean Power Plan (CPP), Waters of the United States (WOTUS), etc. to prepare for the orderly transfer of power. For the record, it is safe to assume that energy, [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [Gasp, Wash DC regulators finally admit they can't predict the future? Has a baseball bard, Casey Stengel, finally been heard? "Never make predictions, especially about the future." Designing plans and defenses around black swan events is micromanagement gone horribly wrong, especially when we don't know which black swan event is in the [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [This guy knows what he's talking about. - Steve] UND dedicates new Collaborative Energy Center By Patrick C. Miller | October 19, 2016 The University of North Dakota last Thursday dedicated its new Collaborative Energy Center (CEC) before an estimated at 200 attendees made up of students, faculty, donors, state officials [...]
