Should an Environmental Regulator Teach Old Laws to Do New Tricks?

Eight-and-a-half years ago, E&E News called Joseph Goffman a “law whisperer” because “His specialty is teaching an old law to do new tricks.” The epithet was well enough deserved that Harvard Law Today repeated it five years later. Now, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is considering Goffman’s nomination to become Assistant Administrator for […]

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A Coalition Letter Opposing the Confirmation of Joseph Goffman as EPA’s Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation

Washington, DC26th July 2022 Dear Chairman Carper, Ranking Member Capito, and Members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: The undersigned organizations and individuals write to express and explain our opposition to the confirmation of Joseph Goffman as Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation in the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Goffman served in

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Green Energy Policies No Help to the Most Desperate

Herd hysteria is taking tragic social and economic tolls on formerly prosperous countries that have enacted climate alarm-premised anti-fossil energy and agriculture policies. Such self-inflicted misery can be attributed to a combination of influences: unwarranted fear based upon provably failed theoretical climate models; grossly misguided expectations of so-called “green energy” capacities and economies; and certainly

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Oil Exporting and Poorer Countries Have Lower Costs for Gasoline

When we look outside the few wealthy countries in the world, we see that at least 80 percent of humanity, or more than six billion people, are living on less than $10 a day. With billions living with little to no access to electricity, politicians are pursuing the most expensive ways to generate intermittent electricity.

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Media Yawns as Joe Sells Petroleum Reserves to Hunter’s Ex-China Partner

According to President Joe Biden, we were told that the release of a million barrels of oil a day from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) from April onwards, “will help address supply disruptions caused by Putin’s further invasion of Ukraine and the Price Hike that Americans are facing at the pump.” With average petroleum

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Lying with Statistics About American Electric Energy Sources

Back in 1954 journalist Darrell Huff published How to Lie with Statistics. The book exposed many different ways in which people use statistics, even true ones, to foist off falsehoods. Today while looking for data on trends in the numbers of operating coal- and natural gas-fired power plants in the United States I came across

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Method In Our Science

1 Thessalonians 5:21“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” Science has an elevated position in Western society. There are those who would try to put Christians down, by saying “You have faith, but I have science”. Science, in the abstract, is therefore assumed to be the ultimate truth, and the universal standard, against

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