Thought piece by Stephen Heins The most recent example of the manipulation of benefit/cost analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an official finding by the EPA that “greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft cause or contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health and welfare.” Credit: Twenty20 More regulatory [...]
Though piece by Stephen Heins To me, the real issues center around the aftermath of the spill and the EPA's disaster plan execution. No amount of PR can hide how long it took for them in Washington DC and Gina McCarthy to even publicly acknowledge the spill: 6 days and only after White House's environmental press [...]
Thought piece by Stephen Heins [While this decision is remarkably important to past and present emails and second email accounts of all government officials, I am most interested right now with what science and information was used in John Holdren and the White House's study. Steve] Federal Court Rules Government Officials Can't Use Private Servers To [...]
Thought piece by Stephen Heins [Best quotes of this important study: (1) "In this brief note we examine the SDG with respect to the issues raised by the Colonial Office (Butler, 1991) and by Bill Easterly (Easterly, Senseless Dreamy Garbled, 2015) (Easterly, 2015) and deliberate whether this program is a paternal development model that imposes contentious climate [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [The FCC and Tom Wheeler seem particularly certain to simply being an agency that is at least 5 years behind the state of the art of technology and Broadband innovation of the industry they regulate. Steve] Peak TV in the FCC Valley of Darkness. Tom Wheeler is not the first whose life in politics left him unfit [...]
25 May 2016 | by Stephen Heins Once upon a time, Congress created independent regulatory agencies for a reason. It gave them five-member commissions, in which the chairman of each commission holds the deciding vote, for a reason—to avoid ill-advised, partisan agendas. In another words, each agency has a significant amount of freedom to make nonpartisan regulations [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [White House and many Federal Agencies are likely to start acting like synchronize swimmers in Wash DC. Below, the problematic and probably misguided goals of the EPA. After all, all of the information provided below came from a recent EPA PR document announcing their goals. Within its last six months, the White House [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [It is hard not coming to the conclusion that rhetoric and legal strategies are providing the context for any serious discussion. The RICO charges are just a manifestation. I have included links to recent stories detailing some of the planning for the "target Exxon" campaign at the bottom. Steve] Exxon Is Big Tobacco? [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins First, with so many different phrases being bandied about by the energy and environmental communities like "sustainable energy," "clean energy," and "environmentally friendly energy," I want to provide a broader meaning to clean energy: "Clean Energy" is energy efficiency, new gas/natural gas pipelines, new state of the art transmission lines, geothermal, hydro, solar, wind, [...]
