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Ending the EPA’s Billion-Dollar Green Energy Rip-Off

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 08/08/2017

View Full Document as PDF The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in recent years has established a pattern of making industrial policy…

Energy and Environment

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Empirical Answers to Outstanding Questions in the Ongoing Debate Over Auer

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 09/15/2016

This study was originally posted at the Yale Journal of Regulations. View it here. View the study at the…

Energy and Environment

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The EPA’s Dereliction of Duty

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 08/01/2016

The agency's failure to meet its own deadlines demands more Congressional oversight.

Energy and Environment

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EPA’s Clean Power Plan Overreach

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 07/28/2015

Could the Clean Power Plan make the EPA an Electricity Czar? …

Energy and Environment

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How the EPA Is Undermining Cooperative Federalism under the Clean Air Act

  • 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

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Deadline Citizen Suits: An Idea Whose Time Has Expired

  • 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

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The EPA’s War Against the States

  • 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

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EPA’s Illegitimate Climate Rule

  • 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

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FERC Nominee Ron Binz: Lessons from Colorado

  • 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

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EPA Overreach: Higher Cost, Less Energy, Greater Risk

  • 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

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EPA’s Woeful Deadline Performance Raises Questions About Agency Competence, Climate Change Regulations, “Sue and Settle”

  • 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

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Assault on State Sovereignty

  • 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

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2012 Cost Analysis of the New Energy Economy

  • 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

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The Regional Haze Settlement Agreement Is a Terrible Deal for New Mexico

  • 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

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EPA’s New Regulatory Front

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 07/17/2012

Full Document Available in PDF The stated mission of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to protect human health and the environment.

Energy and Environment

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The Kids Are Alright

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 06/18/2012

Full Document Available in PDF…

Energy and Environment

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All Pain and No Gain

  • By: David Bier, Marlo Lewis, Jr., William Yeatman
  • 06/08/2012

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…

Energy

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EPA’s Shocking New Mexico Power Grab

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 10/25/2011

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…

Energy

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EPA Guilty of Environmental Hyperbole in Mountaintop Mining Veto

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 02/07/2011

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…

Energy

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Colorado’s Clean Air Clean Jobs Act Will Accomplish Neither

  • By: Amy Oliver Cooke, William Yeatman
  • 10/27/2010

Government Officials and Special Interests Pushed HB 1365 on a Foundation of Fallacies…

Energy

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Colorado’s Great Green Deception

  • By: Amy Oliver Cooke, William Yeatman
  • 09/10/2010

If HB 1001Seems too Good to Be True, It’s Because It Is…

Energy

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Copenhagen Climate Conference

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 03/01/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Green activists are appalled that last December’s UN climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, did not produce…

Energy and Environment

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Dr. John P. Holdren

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 01/13/2009

William Yeatman explains why the U.S. Senate should not confirm Dr. John P. Holdren's nomination for White House Science Adviser.

Energy

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Ethanol is a Budget Buster

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 07/31/2007

Full Document Available in PDF News story after news story highlights the impact of ethanol…

Energy and Environment

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