The Undermining Role and Unfair Influence of Tax-Exempt Foundations
Thought Piece Thanks to Tom Shepstone for this piece about the large Foundations and their path to political and environmental activism. “Tax-exempt foundations, especially supposed charities, are undermining our energy security and exercising completely unfair [...]
The Climate-Change Tort Racket
Thought Piece The Climate-Change Tort Racket: Liberal cities join the contingency-fee bar to shake down oil firms. I had another nightmare last night about Global Warming (aka Climate Change), that US cities started suing national [...]
Southpointe Event Focuses on M-U NGL Storage Hub
Thought piece Today in Marcellus Drilling News, Jim Willis published a great piece on ethane crackers, storage hubs, and economic development for Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. In particular, Jim does a great job connecting [...]
Cost-Benefit Reform at the EPA
Thought Piece Cost-Benefit Reform at the EPA: Under Obama, the EPA juked the numbers to justify costly regulation. It is about time that the EPA returns to the fiscal discipline of cost and benefit analysis, [...]
You’re Hired! Ohio Campaigns to Raise Awareness of Shale ‘In Demand’ Jobs
Thought Piece My economic argument about Ohio centers around the wide ranging benefits of economic development with or without the direct revenue of shale. Undoubtedly, the large manufacturing value of indirect feedstock will power a [...]
The US EPA’s science advisers push back against Scott Pruitt’s attempts to dilute environmental regulation
Thought Piece The Double Standards of Reporting About the McCarthy and Pruitt EPAs The coverage about the last two EPA Directors, Gina McCarthy and Scott Priutt, could not be more different. For the ahistorical, the [...]
“Nutty” is as Nutty Does – 2nd MVP Protester Goes Up a Pole in VA
Though Piece More bad behavior in VA. It is hard to retain a modicum of respect for any environmental group (or individual protester) who games the legal system or simply ignores the law, especially if [...]
Cuadrilla files injunction to stop trespassing at shale gas site
Though Piece These British trespassers over the last 18 months are a great example of environmental extremism and media manipulation, with a misguided sense of moral rectitude. Using name-calling, populist rhetoric, and demonization of fracking, [...]
New York’s Green Energy Roulette Gov. Cuomo uses up his state’s electricity margin of safety to advance his career.
Thought Piece Gov. Cuomo is using up his state’s electricity margin of safety to advance his career, writes @HolmanJenkins Governor Andrew Cuomo is a great example of an urban politician with climate change prejudices: He [...]
As Federal Oil Regulation Gets Tricky, State-Level Regulators Still Work Best
Thought Piece 17345867 - engineer oil refinery write on the notes book looking large oil refinery focus on refinery So, now that the Clean Power Plan of 2015 (an effort by the previous [...]
Orion Energy Systems Chosen to Present At The 7th Annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit
Thought Piece The conversation about quantified energy efficiency and emission reductions is as important now as it was a decade ago. I believe that my Wall Street Presentation is also available through this link, but [...]