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Wind Energy’s Price Suppression Effects (debating Wind Power Cost Estimates – 6)

Electricity, Energy markets, Environmental policy, Regulation / By Michael Giberson

[Series header: On the Morning of October 15 the Institute for Energy Research in Washington DC released a report I’d written about the federal government’s wind power cost estimates. (Links available here.) Later that day Michael Goggin of the American Wind Energy Association, the lobbying organization in Washington DC that represents the wind energy industry, …

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Homeland Security: Eroding Your Human Rights Without Any Benefit-cost Analysis

9 Comments / Economics, Liberty, Politics, Transportation / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling Over the past six months the TSA has started using whole-body imaging scanners as primary screening devices without explicit Congressional authorization. Congress has only authorized the TSA’s privacy officer to solicit public comment and publish a privacy impact statement (according to EPIC’s lawsuit), and their authorization of TSA practices is implicit in their …

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Oil Spills, Movie Stars, Robot Unicorns and Regulation

2 Comments / Energy markets, Environmental policy, Regulation / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson Even before the current oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico it was well understood that drilling offshore sometimes results in spills. The current oil spill in the news has brought the idea of spills to the attention of many, many more people, people who don’t usually think too much about these things. …

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