Wow, 100 issues of Nota Bene! Props to Russ for helping me for a while with this nifty little S&R feature. Never mind all that now, let’s get on with this issue. […]
The Weekly Carboholic: a bit of everything
Due to the large size of this week’s Carboholic, I’ve busted it up into sections for readability. Science When you’re talking about Antarctica and global heating, there are some serious problems. The […]
EPA politics and California
The Bush administration must hate the state of California with a passion bordering on fanaticism. First the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of the Department of Energy declares most of southern California a […]
The Weekly Carboholic
According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved the first wave power program in the United States. The program is for four 250 kW […]
DOE revisits national interest electric transmission corridors
In October, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) declared two large swaths of the country “National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors” (NIETCs). In these regions, the federal government would have the authority to […]
Electric transmission lines, eminent domain, and the consequences of vague and broadly worded laws – Part 4
The past three parts of this series discussed national interest electric transmission corridors, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) authority to issue federal construction permits over the objections of state and local […]
Electric transmission lines, eminent domain, and the consequences of vague and broadly worded laws – Part 3
The last two parts of this series have discussed how and why the Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) may declare a “geographic area” as a national interest […]
Electric transmission lines, eminent domain, and the consequences of vague and broadly worded laws – Part 2
Yesterday I discussed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and how it permits the Department of Energy to declare large swaths of the country as national interest electric transmission corridors (NIETCs) with […]
Electric transmission lines, eminent domain, and the consequences of vague and broadly worded laws – Part 1
In 2005, Congress passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (referred to as the EPAct from here on), the first attempt in recent history by the federal government to address the generation, […]
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