Free Beacon
U.S. Faces Regulatory Cliff: Looming rules could drive up costs, report says
William Yeatman, an environmental regulation expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said Inhofe’s steep price tag is no exaggeration. “This has been a…
SNL
Groups resume bid to require retrofits, close exemptions under Regional Haze Rule
However, William Yeatman, assistant director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the right-leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute, argued that the prospects for environmental petitioners…
Denver Post
Layoffs, failures test Colorado’s “new energy economy”
"It's not just Colorado," said William Yeatman, an energy analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based free-market think tank. "Renewable-energy manufacturing is taking…
Washington Times
Regulations and rules equal broken government
From Wayne Crews and Ryan Young's op-ed in The Washington Times: The first is “sue and settle.” Agencies like the EPA work closely…
Fox News
Solar power company banks on loan, but skeptics question government investment in industry
From Dan Springer's article on Fox News: But William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute says the Energy Department's green loan program created…
Breitbart
SoloPower: Another Solyndra in Waiting?
From John Sexton's article on Breitbart: William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute says of SoloPower, "It looks like it will fail for…
Citation
Mining For Votes
From Patrick Howley’s article in The Washington Free Beacon: The Utility MACT costs taxpayers $11 billion per year, according to EPA estimates. Insiders…
Los Angeles Times
House passes bill to limit Solyndra-style loan guarantees
Politico
House passes ‘No More Solyndras’
From Andrew Restuccia's article in Politico: Conservative groups, including the Heritage Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, take issue with the provision allowing…
Legal News Line
Group says Obama administration officials skirting FOIA laws
From Michael Tremoglie's article in LegalNewsline: The Competitive Enterprise Institute has filed a lawsuit alleging an Obama administration official is using a private…
Bloomberg
Republicans Drop Energy Efficiency From Platform
From Ari Natter's article in Bloomberg: “I think it's direct recent empirical evidence of wayward stimulus spending,” William Yeatman, an energy policy analyst…
Environmental Finance
Anti-Solyndra bill doesn’t go far enough, say lobbyists
From Environmental Finance: “Why is [the DOE] running an investment bank?” asked William Yeatman, energy policy analyst for think-tank the Competitive Enterprise…
Comment
Comments on National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter
Full Document Available in PDF 1. A Secondary NAAQS for Visibility Either Conflates or Conflicts with the Regional Haze Program; If the…
SNL
Vacated CSAPR could open power plants to onerous haze rule requirements
Chief among the concerns for states, according to William Yeatman, assistant director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the right-leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
Tucson Citizen
EPA versus Arizona on regional haze issue
From Jonathan Duhamel's article in The Tucson Citizen: A previous post: EPA war on coal threatens…
Power Magazine
EPA’s “Sue and Settle Rulemaking” Criticized in New Report, Congressional Hearing
From POWER magazine: The EPA's Regional Haze program, established by the Clean Air Act in 1977, seeks to remedy visibility impairment at federal…
Study
EPA’s New Regulatory Front
Full Document Available in PDF The stated mission of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to protect human health and the environment.
News OK
EPA rule will be costly for Oklahoma, U.S. Chamber study says
From Jay Marks' article in The Oklahoman: “Despite all the publicity for other regulations, one of EPA’s more dubious, and arguably illegal regulatory…
Capital Research
Attack of the Scare Ads!
(Published by Capital Research Center) Since Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a suite of…
Comment
Testimony on “Mandate Madness: When Sue and Settle Just Isn’t Enough”
Full Document Available in PDF Chairman Lankford, Ranking Member Connolly, Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify before…
Study
The Kids Are Alright
Full Document Available in PDF…
WVNS TV
Machin, Republicans Fight Mercury Emission Rule
From WVNSTV and The State Journal: The Competitive Enterprise Institute released a report called "All Pain and No Gain" earlier this month stating…
News Release
CEI Releases New Study, “All Pain and No Gain: The Illusory Benefits of the EPA’s Utility MACT”
Washington, D.C., June 12, 2012 – Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute published a new study, “All Pain and No Gain: The Illusory Benefits of…
Study
All Pain and No Gain
The MACT Rule supposedly reduces risk to unborn children by lowering methylmercury concentrations in non-commercial fish. But the EPA provides no empirical evidence that any…
Heartland
Oklahoma Challenges EPA Haze Restrictions
One News Now
WH Mining Plans Are Anybody’s Guess
Orange County Register
Bureaucrats Eyeing Your Device Chargers
Aljazeera
U.S. Oil Pipeline: Storm in a Barrel?
Aljazeera
William Yeatman: Politics and the Keystone Pipeline
William Yeatman: Politics and the Keystone Pipeline…
Reason
New York Times Green Jobs Lunacy
News and Sentinel
EPA Rule Slammed by Legislators
Comment
CEI Submits Comments to EPA Regarding the Agency’s Regional Haze Power Grab
Full Document Available in PDF The “Good Neighbor Provision” of the Clean Air Act requires that each State Implementation Plan…
News and Sentinel
Durban Treaty: Doomed to Failure?
In 1997, history was made when 37 nations committed themselves to the only binding climate agreement to date, the Kyoto Protocol but in December of…
Tri City Tribune USA
Healthy Breathing
Capitol Report New Mexico
Democrat in Roundhouse Protests EPA Decision Over Coal-Fired Plant
The Republic
Groups Criticize EPA for Stepping on NM’s Authority to Regulate Coal-Fired Power Plant
Albuquerque Journal
Groups Claim EPA Oversteps Authority in N.M.
Study
EPA’s Shocking New Mexico Power Grab
The EPA engineered an ad hoc regulatory regime under the Clean Air Act in order to run roughshod over New Mexico’s rightful authority and impose…
US News
Congress Should Let Market Take Care of Energy Industry
Comment
Testimony of William Yeatman Before House Water and Power Subcommittee
Full Document Available in PDF Chairman McClintock, Ranking Member Napolitano, Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify before…
http://cei.org/sites/default/files/BNA 9 9 2011.pdf
Even Modest White House Plan on Efficiency Said Likely to Face Republican Opposition
http://cei.org/sites/default/files/BNA 9 1 2011.pdf
Solar Company Bankruptcy Expected To Intensify Scrutiny of Loan Guarantees
The Pelican Post
Louisiana Saying No To Renewable Energy Mandates
NCPA
Blame Government for Turning off the AC
Albuquerque Journal
Don’t Believe the EPA: PNM Ruling a Ripoff
Last Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency ran roughshod over New Mexico officials and imposed nearly $340 million in unjustified costs on PNM customers – in…
New York Post
Obama’s War on Coal
President Obama claims to see the need to create jobs at this time of endless 9-plus percent unemployment — yet his administration continues to…
Baltimore Sun
Blame Government, Not BGE, For Turning Off the AC
Ratepayers are steamed at Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. for turning off air conditioners in thousands of homes on July 22, the hottest day in…
Baltimore Sun
William Yeatman Criticizes EPA for Killing Jobs
CEI's William Yeatman exposes the anti-job, anti economic growth policies of the EPA. Yet another example of how government regulation fails to prioritize job creating…
MPR News
Minnesota’s Ethanol Industry Faces Uncertain Future
News OK
Sullivan’s Natural Gas Legislation Draws Opposition Outside Congress
Yahoo! News
Taxpayer Watchdogs: $14 Trillion U.S. Debt Leaves No Room For Treasury-Backed Loan Guarantees For Energy Projects
Comment
Declaration of William Yeatman in Lawsuit against Colorado’s Renewable Electricity Standard
Today American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standard, based upon evidence that…
Letters
Stop New Authority to D.O.E. Loan Guarantee Program
CEI joins Taxpayers for Common Sense, National Taxpayers Union, George Marshall Institute, and the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center to demand that Appropriations Committee excise Department…
Denver Post
Critic of Xcel Is Also an Investor
News OK
Xcel Energy Critic Also a $55.8 Million Investor in the Utility
Daily Caller
Green Investment Bank Should Make Taxpayers See Red
The White House and congressional Democrats are talking up a “green investment bank.” The House did the right thing by striking the notion from the continuing resolution.
Electric Light & Power
Lawmaker Wants To Cut Agency
Study
EPA Guilty of Environmental Hyperbole in Mountaintop Mining Veto
On January 13, 2011, the EPA vetoed the issuance of a Clean Water Act permit by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the Mingo…
Blog
On Mountaintop Mining Veto, EPA Is Guilty of Environmental Hyperbole
On January 13, the Environmental Protection Agency vetoed the issuance of a Clean Water Act permit by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the…
Fulton News
Ameren Mo. defends EPA charges
The New American
The EPA Does It Again
One News Now
Will EPA’s deference cloud court’s judgment?
Examiner
Senator warns of potential ‘apocalyptic pain’ regarding economy
International Business Times
Budget Hawks Oppose Loan Guarantee Program
Letters
Oppose wasteful $10 billion increase for DOE nuclear loan guarantee program in continuing resolution
Full Document Available in PDF…
One News Now
Federal funding for solar facilities on the bubble
Examiner
Food costs may be America’s greatest crisis in 2011
One News Now
Expert: Loan guarantee program expensive, useless
The Sacramento Bee
Never Ready for Prime Time
Appeared…
Heartland
Chicago Climate Exchange Closes
One News Now
Are auto efficiency standards doable?
Wall Street Journal
Energy Department’s Green Bank is a Waste of Money (Letter to the Editor)
Unfortunately for American taxpayers, the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program is even worse than the Journal thinks. Running a bank is outside the…
Wall Street Journal
Ritter Plan Tied to Phantom Carbon Tax
Ratepayers can’t see it on their bill, and they won’t hear about it from Gov. Bill Ritter. But a central component of his New Energy…
One News Now
Obama-Backed Green Company to Slash Jobs, Dump Expansion
Denver Post
Retire the Stealth Tax on Carbon
Denver Post
Nation Watching Xcel’s Plans for Aging Coal-Fired Power Plants
LaCrosse Tribune
GOP Shift in House Not Likely to Affect Farmers
MPR News
Little Change to Agriculture Policy, Even as Peterson Loses Chair
One News Now
New Regulations Beyond EPA’s Control
Denver Post
PUC to Review Xcel Plan
Study
Colorado’s Clean Air Clean Jobs Act Will Accomplish Neither
Government Officials and Special Interests Pushed HB 1365 on a Foundation of Fallacies…
The New American
EPA Proposes More Regulations
State Journal Register
Illinois Must Get Out of Regional Cap-and-Trade
Study
Colorado’s Great Green Deception
If HB 1001Seems too Good to Be True, It’s Because It Is…
State Journal Register
The Real Cost of Being Green
Gov. Bill Ritter and green energy advocates are selling Colorado a false bill of goods when it comes to the “New Energy Economy.” They claim…
News OK
Smart Technology and the Electricity Market
In late June, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission determined that Oklahoma Gas & Electric could proceed with its smart grid strategy. As a result,…
National Review
Brownback’s Mountains
It looked like we had dodged a bullet. With an election looming, Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) decided that a provision requiring…
E&E News
EPA Rejects 10 Endangerment Findings
Washington Post
BG&E’s Smart Grid Program Faces another Regulatory Hurdle
Forbes
Get the Government Out of the Energy Business
Products
Pests over People?
Just because coal is an inanimate object doesn’t mean President Obama’s war on coal avoids human casualties. I witnessed the collateral damage to coal-dependent…
Products
Green Energy Is Race We Want To Lose (Letter to the Editor)
The story says “China overtook the United States for the first time last year in the race to invest” in clean energy — as if…
Denver Daily News
Markets Should Drive Xcel, Not Social Values
Xcel Energy is getting a lot of grief over its new “tiered” rate increase Ń a.k.a., the air-conditioner tax Ń but the criticism is…
Baltimore Sun
Maryland’s Smart Grid Fiasco
Last month, the Public Service Commission rejected Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.'s "smart grid" proposal. From start to finish, the whole affair demonstrated everything that…
The Spectator
The Windsurfer’s Windfall
Denver Business Journal
Markets Should Drive State’s Energy Industry
Xcel Energy is getting a lot of grief over its new “tiered” rate increase—a.k.a., the air-conditioner tax—but the criticism is somewhat misplaced. It’s impossible…
Human Events
Movie Star Misses Mark on Mining
Movie stars with advocacy agendas are a menace to society. Their charisma, looks, and access to a mass audience make them natural persuaders, but…
American Spectator
Our Hero Barbara Boxer
We've spent a lot of time and, well, energy warning against costly carbon controls, yet we must admit the fruits of our earnest labors…
American Spectator
John Kerry’s Big Business Buyoff
When Senator John Kerry lent his name to a climate bill last fall, he probably didn't expect it to sink so fast. Opponents successfully…
Wall Street Journal