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Programmable Thermostat Regulations in California: Big Brother or Control Freaks?

15 Comments / Economics, Electricity, Energy markets, Environmental policy / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling Over the past week there has been quite a discussion online of the California Energy Commission’s proposal requiring mandatory customer thermostat reponse to emergency demand reduction signals. This New York Times article from Friday also discusses the CEC proposal, as does this ABC news affiliate story from San Francisco. See also the discussion …

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Supreme Court Mass. Vs. Epa Decision

1 Comment / Economics, Electricity, Environmental policy / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling For those of you interested in intelligent legal analysis of yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in the Massachusetts vs. EPA case, see Jonathan Adler’s post and the links he provides at Volokh. See also this thread of his earlier comments on the decision, and this extensive Google News search of articles on the decision. …

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NYT on Electricity: Metering and Asymmetric Information in Retail Markets

11 Comments / Economics, Electricity / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling Monday’s front-page article on electricity metering and pricing by David Cay Johnston highlights two important developments in modernizing electricity policy. One overarching theme in the article is that markets cannot function up to their potential when buyers and sellers face systematic asymmetric information. In the case of electricity, retail customers do not see …

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Co2 Policy in Europe and the Us

Economics, Environmental policy / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling Jonathan Adler has a nice post about carbon policy in the US and Europe, building on an editorial in today’s WSJ (subscription required). Jonathan notes: While talking tough about the need to reduce emissions, many European nations are moving in the opposite direction. Only two (the United Kingdom and Sweden) look likely to …

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Epa Climate Change Case Before Supreme Court

3 Comments / Economics, Environmental policy / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling Jonathan Adler has summary post at Volokh Conspiracy that provides a lot of useful links to articles and analyses of yesterday’s Supreme Court oral arguments in Massachusetts vs. EPA. This Washington Post article gives an overview of the case and the arguments: Twelve states, led by Massachusetts and joined by the District of …

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More Energy Bill Stuff

3 Comments / Economics, Energy markets / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling Thanks to the guys over at 2 Blowhards for their recent link to my recent energy bill rant. Since it’s generating readers, here’s more! But not from me. Here’s one from Jonathan Adler over at The Commons, with links to other commentaries. One of his links suggests that the “peak oil” corpses are …

Integrated River Basin Management In Canada

Environmental policy / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling Thanks to Jonathan Adler for his recent post on a new paper on integrated river basin management. The paper, by William Blomquist (IUPUI), Ken Calbick and Ariel Dinar (both of World Bank), is available at SSRN. I have not yet read it, but it looks like an interesting analysis of a set of …

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New California Ethanol Study

Energy markets / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling Over at the Commons, Jonathan Adler has a post linking to this California Air Resources Board report, with evidence indicating that the use of ethanol as a motor fuel increases ozone-forming compounds, and is thus not the clean fuel silver bullet that ethanol supporters would like us all to believe. For more KP …

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States Sue The Epa To Gain Greenhouse Gas Regulation

Uncategorized / By Lynne Kiesling

This informative article by Jonathan Adler in the National Review discusses a lawsuit recently filed by the Attorneys General of northeastern states to force the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. This article is a must-read for, as usual, Jonathan is bang-on right: The lack of any regulatory provisions in the CAA [Clean Air Act] designed …

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