Tulsa World
‘EPA Regulations and Your Pocketbook’ forum features agency’s foes
William Yeatman, assistant director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, called the EPA "out of control." The…
News OK
PSO plan to phase out coal generation may cost too much, group says
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…
Bloomberg
Coal Foe Named to FERC Is Latest Obama Pick Drawing Ire
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,…
GJ Sentinel
Printed Letters
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.
Daily Caller
Fight erupts over Obama’s pick for top US utility regulator
“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…
Journal Star
EPA’s regional haze program costs Nebraska electric utilities millions
"Its real goal is to impose another costly regulation on electric utilities and force them…
Washington Examiner
‘War on coal’: 207 coal plants will close in the next decade
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,"…
Hot Air
New EPA chief: Can everybody please “stop talking about environmental regulations killing jobs?”
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…
Spectator
Rep. Chabot Challenges EPA Power Grabs, Federal Mandates
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…
Citation
Think tanks worry what Binz-led FERC would do on grid cost allocation, demand response
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…
Watch Dog
Lawmaker favors innovation over litigation in legislation addressing clean water
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…
Journal Star
EPA’s regional haze program costs Nebraska electric utilities millions
"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…
United Liberty
New study details EPA’s regulatory incompetence
A new study authored by William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute shows that the EPA is…
The Gazette
EPA fails to meet deadlines
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…
The Gazette
Powerful EPA fails to meet deadlines
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…
Washington Examiner
What happens in the backroom of a sue-and-settle lawsuit?
William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute discovered the details after a Freedom of Information Act request produced 659 pages of EPA emails.
Capital Reseach
‘Sue and Settle’: Secret backroom deals by bureaucrats and environmentalists hurt the American economy
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…
American's for Prosperity
The EPA’s Assault on State Sovereignty
Click here to read the new report.
Bipps
ALEC shows Kentucky’s issue with the EPA is a matter of state sovereignty
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…
Daily Caller
Report: Obama’s EPA power balloons
“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…
National Review
The Enviro-Fix Is In
“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,…
Roll Call
Congress Must Rein In Expensive ‘Sue and Settle’ Tactics by EPA
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…
Spectator
The Busch Doctrine: Tilting For Windmills
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…
Free Beacon
Overseeing Failure
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…
Free Beacon
E.P.Delay
“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…
Free Beacon
The First Bank of Solar
Free Beacon
Failure Factories
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…
Free Enterprise
Hazed and Confused: Arizona Fights Anti-Coal Regional Haze Rules
The U.S. Chamber report authored by Competitive Policy Institute policy analyst William Yeatman, “EPA’s New Regulatory Front: Regional Haze and the…
Daily Caller
Colorado ex-Gov. Bill Ritter on shortlist for both Energy and Interior posts
William Yeatman, an energy policy analyst who wrote the report for the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Independence Institute in…
The Colorado Observer
Claims of Fracking Health Impacts Rich With Emotion, But Lack Proof
“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,…
The Colorado Observer
REPORT: New Energy Economy Comes With Hefty Price Tag
A report from an analyst with the Independence Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute released Tuesday found that initiatives undertaken as part of Colorado Gov.
Free Beacon
Investing in Foreign Countries
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,…
Free Beacon
Picking Losers
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…
Free Beacon
The Domino Effect of Green Energy Failure
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…
Barrasso
A New Report on the Post-Election Red Tape Rush
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 –…
Bipps
Yes Kentucky, the war on coal is real
William Yeatman from globalwarming.org – whose tagline is “May cooler heads prevail” – recently posted an article spelling out this exact point. According to Yeatman,…
Tri City Tribune USA
PNM Contracts Texas Company to Combat Regional Haze
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…
Albuquerque Journal
State’s San Juan Plan Cost Analyzed
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…
Free Beacon
Waging War on Coal
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…
Bill O'Reilly
Hour by Hour: What to Watch on Election Night
Free Beacon
Anti-Coal Regulation on Fire
In a suit filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Oct. 23, the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?
Reason
New York Times Green Jobs Lunacy
News and Sentinel
EPA Rule Slammed by Legislators
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.
US News
Congress Should Let Market Take Care of Energy Industry
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
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
Denver Post
Critic of Xcel Is Also an Investor
News OK
Xcel Energy Critic Also a $55.8 Million Investor in the Utility
Electric Light & Power
Lawmaker Wants To Cut Agency
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
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
Heartland
Chicago Climate Exchange Closes
One News Now
Are auto efficiency standards doable?
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
The New American
EPA Proposes More Regulations
State Journal Register
Illinois Must Get Out of Regional Cap-and-Trade
E&E News
EPA Rejects 10 Endangerment Findings
Washington Post