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• By: William Yeatman
• 01/26/2015

The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it would finalize three enormous rules regulating carbon emissions this summer, as a part of the Obama administration’s plan…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 01/22/2015

One News Now talks to William Yeatman on Keystone XL:  OneNewsNow sought comment from William Yeatman, a senior fellow specializing in energy policy…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 10/20/2014

A Spanish renewable energy company under investigation by at least two federal agencies unveiled a new biofuel production facility on Friday that will receive hundreds…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 10/06/2014

Conservative think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is suggesting Congress pursue Clean Air Act amendments to correct what it sees as an imbalance in…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 09/22/2014

The foxes are running the henhouse at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In academic parlance, this is a textbook example of “regulatory capture” —…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 09/02/2014

When it crafted legislation to fight air pollution, Congress relied on America’s unique system of federalism. For most of the Clean Air Act’s history, states and…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 08/20/2014

“Aside from the impossibility of projecting anything a hundred years into the future, there are countervailing reports and studies that suggest the exact opposite. It…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 08/13/2014

This study was originally published at the Applachian Natural Resources Law Journal. Read Full Study Here Two statutory devices — deadlines…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 08/13/2014

This study was originally published at the Capital Research Center Read Full Study Here Congress intended the Environmental Protection Agency to…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 07/29/2014

The Environmental Protection Agency kicks off public hearings today on its new carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions regulations for power plants. But before the…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 07/28/2014

Full Document Available in PDF On June 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule under the Clean Air…

Climate

• 07/10/2014

From CBN News:   WASHINGTON — Moms who are hot to stop global warming came with their kids to ask Congress Wednesday to…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 06/30/2014

Whether the administration’s proposed policies will address those impacts is another question. “It’s weird that their argument is that [anthropogenic global warming] is bad for…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 06/18/2014

If approved by the PUC, typical residential rates would increase by $3.96 a month starting in 2015. An additional increase in 2016 and 2017, in…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 06/17/2014

Adding to the mix is Competitive Enterprise Institute, which took part in attacking Binz last year before he pulled his name for the nomination to…

Climate

• By: William Yeatman
• 03/03/2014

National Review’s Law and Disorder Debate, “Man vs. Wild: California in Crisis,” took place in Washington, D.C., on February 28, 2014. The keynote speakers were…

Water and Air Quality

• By: William Yeatman
• 01/08/2014

Republican leadership in the House of Representatives has scheduled floor action this week on H.R. 2279, the Reducing Excessive Deadline Obligations (REDO) Act. ‘Redo’ is…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 12/02/2013

William Yeatman, a senior fellow and energy policy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, also criticized Harvey’s vision. “The fact is that wealthier is healthier,…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 11/11/2013

William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute notes that: “Regional Haze is an aesthetic regulation pursuant to the Clean Air Act. Its purpose is to…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 10/31/2013

Cited on pages 15, 19, 22, 25.

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 10/17/2013

William Yeatman, an energy policy analyst for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said he opposes regulation that serves no public health benefit and only gratifies a…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 10/07/2013

Full Document Available in PDF Summary: Congress intended the Environ­mental Protection Agency to work closely with state and local officials—those nearest to…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 09/25/2013

“Obviously, he was chosen because of his political connections, which are, alas, essential to LanzaTech, a company that wouldn’t exist without taxpayer handouts,” said…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 09/25/2013

William Yeatman, policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said he’s worried about the impact of the new regulations on the economy, in part because…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 09/20/2013

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a D.C.-based think tank, said the changes to the new rule were “cosmetic” and likely to still be shot down…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 09/17/2013

William Yeatman, associate director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the report’s author, is concerned that Binz will use his position as FERC chairman to…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 09/17/2013

In a press release issued before the hearing, CEI analyst William Yeatman argued, “Binz’s record as Colorado PUC chair makes it clear that he’s a…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 09/17/2013

“Government is terrible at picking winners and losers for a simple reason: Politics always interferes,” said William Yeatman, an energy policy expert at the…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 09/17/2013

Full Document Available in PDF On Tuesday, September 17, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will conduct a hearing to vet…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 09/02/2013

William Yeatman of the conservative free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute said that Binz’s work with the Colorado PUC raised concerns, including his actions in support of…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 08/26/2013

Full Document Available in PDF Since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a suite…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 08/26/2013

William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute said the following: “PSO’s strategy to close two coal plants decades early is certainly the best deal for…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 08/23/2013

The EPA has been hurting the coal industry since 2009 with senseless regulations, said William Yeatman, assistant director of the Center for Energy & Environment…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 08/23/2013

Joining Pruitt at Oklahoma City University for an Americans for Prosperity Foundation-Oklahoma forum discussing “EPA Regulations and Your Pocketbook,” were U.S. Rep. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma City,…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 08/23/2013

William Yeatman, assistant director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, called the EPA "out of control." The…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 08/23/2013

William Yeatman, assistant director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said PSO's plan underreported the costs of switching to…

Energy

• By: Christopher C. Horner, William Yeatman
• 08/22/2013

It should come as no surprise that industry insiders, lobbyists and special-interest groups support Ron Binz, President Obama's choice to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 08/20/2013

The Colorado Public Utilities Commission under Binz allowed Xcel to receive a 10.5 percent rate of return on construction costs associated with building natural-gas generators,…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 08/14/2013

Former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signed 57 clean-energy bills into law. He now directs The Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University.

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 08/06/2013

“In Colorado, Binz actually participated in the crafting of legislation that mandated fuel switching from coal to gas for 1,000 megawatts of electricity generation, at…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 08/06/2013

"Its real goal is to impose another costly regulation on electric utilities and force them…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 08/06/2013

William Yeatman from the Competitive Enterprise Institute agrees. "President Obama campaigned on a promise to bankrupt coal, and EPA is now backing up his words,"…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 07/31/2013

What’s more, they’re increasingly getting in the way of state sovereignty, because they know better, of course: The ALEC report showed that in President Obama’s…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 07/26/2013

Chabot’s legislation dovetails with a new report from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) on “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Assault on State Sovereignty.” The…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 07/26/2013

The Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Colorado-based Independence Institute are concerned that Binz will not keep consumers’ interests in mind if he leads FERC and…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 07/23/2013

Chabot’s legislation dovetails with a new report from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) on “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Assault on State Sovereignty.” The…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 07/17/2013

"Its real goal is to impose another costly regulation on electric utilities and force them to shut down their coal-fired generating units. Ultimately, all states…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 07/17/2013

A new study authored by William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute shows that the EPA is…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 07/13/2013

Ninety-eight percent of Environmental Protection Agency regulations for three core Clean Air Act programs were implemented late, according to a new study by William Yeatman…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 07/12/2013

Ninety-eight percent of Environmental Protection Agency regulations for three core Clean Air Act programs were implemented late, according to a new study by William Yeatman…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 07/09/2013

Full Document Available in PDF The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) record of compliance with statutory deadlines established for three core Clean Air…

Climate

• By: William Yeatman
• 07/06/2013

William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute discovered the details after a Freedom of Information Act request produced 659 pages of EPA emails.

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 07/05/2013

This op-ed was co-written by Todd Wynn at the American Legislative Exchange Council. Last week, President Obama rolled out a climate plan fit…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 07/05/2013

A recent Chamber of Commerce report by William Yeatman concluded that the sue-and-settle practice is responsible for many of the EPA’s “most controversial, economically significant…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 06/28/2013

Click here to read the new report.

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 06/27/2013

According to the report, titled “the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Assault on State Sovereignty,” the unilateral practice of replacing cooperative federalism with federal command and…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 06/26/2013

Since 2009, the EPA has expanded its own prerogatives at the expense of the states’ rightful authority. Congress wanted states to quarterback environmental policymaking, but…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 06/26/2013

“Since 2009, however, EPA has centralized a great deal of environmental policymaking,” said William Yeatman, author of the report and assistant director of the Center…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 05/23/2013

“It’s another insidious angle to this,” says William Yeatman, the assistant director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and the Environment. “In essence,…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 05/07/2013

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar William Yeatman recently shed some light on how the EPA uses the sue and settle…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 05/06/2013

The job creation claims rest on two obvious premises: the viability of wind energy and economic efficiency of government investments in it. The first point…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 04/24/2013

The failure of Fisker is indicative of the government’s inability to prop up whole sectors of the economy, said William Yeatman, an energy policy expert…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 03/21/2013

“It’s not a poorly written rule so much as a muddled one that conflates those two too readily,” Competitive Enterprise Institute energy policy analyst William…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 03/18/2013

Argonne, LG Chem, and General Motors are all part of what William Yeatman, an energy policy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, describes as a…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 02/07/2013

The U.S. Chamber report authored by Competitive Policy Institute policy analyst William Yeatman, “EPA’s New Regulatory Front: Regional Haze and the…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 02/06/2013

William Yeatman, an energy policy analyst who wrote the report for the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Independence Institute in…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 01/30/2013

“I don’t want to impugn anyone’s particular symptoms, but if your property or person is affected, you have recourse in the courts,” said William Yeatman,…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 01/23/2013

A report from an analyst with the Independence Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute released Tuesday found that initiatives undertaken as part of Colorado Gov.

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 01/22/2013

Full Document Available in PDF From January 2007 to January 2011, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter (D) pushed through the General Assembly a…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 01/18/2013

These companies saw their tax liabilities to which they could apply a tax credit either shrink or vanish altogether as a result, said William Yeatman,…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 01/15/2013

 William Yeatman, an energy policy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said the lawsuit illustrates the dangers of cronyism. “Whenever the government engages in industrial…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 12/20/2012

William Yeatman, an energy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, described the Obama administration’s funding of green energy companies as “vertical monopoly-type subsidy.” A vertical…

Energy and Environment

• By: William Yeatman
• 12/13/2012

William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on June 28th, 2012 regarding this sue–and-settle phenomenon –…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 12/10/2012

William Yeatman from globalwarming.org – whose tagline is “May cooler heads prevail” – recently posted an article spelling out this exact point. According to Yeatman,…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 11/19/2012

In the meantime, the Rio Grande Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, CEI, have issued a press release to criticize the both the federal and…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 11/15/2012

An independent analysis of the state’s proposed compromise to settle the regional haze dispute at the Juan power plant concludes it would hit PNM ratepayers…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 11/14/2012

Full Document Available in PDF After months of negotiation, the New Mexico Environment Department in early October proposed a settlement to end…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 11/11/2012

It's been a rough stretch for Colorado's "new energy economy." Over the last few months, the Centennial State's green energy industry, which the new energy…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 11/06/2012

The EPA imposed haze plans on North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Nebraska in 2011 and 2012 that will increase energy compliance costs by almost…

Energy

• By: William Yeatman
• 11/02/2012

In a suit filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Oct. 23, the…

Energy