What is the single most expensive regulation of all time? Energy Policy Analyst William Yeatman has one candidate: the EPA’s proposal to regulate mercury emissions from coal-powered plants. If it passes, the regulation would cost at least ten billion dollars per…
November 23, 2011: The Most Expensive Regulation of All Time? [7:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (312)
Energy Policy Analyst William Yeatman tells the story of how the EPA is forcing a power plant in New Mexico to install $370 million worth of equipment to improve visibility in a nearby park. Peer-reviewed research says the visibility improvement has…
August 18, 2011: How the EPA Makes Electricity Less Affordable [6:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (366)
Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s regulatory czar, announced today that the administration intends to repeal regulations from 30 different agencies. CEI Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray thinks this is a good step, though a small one. He estimates today’s proposal would…
May 26, 2011: President Obama Proposes Deregulation [6:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (443)
Richard Morrison and Jeremy Lott welcome CEI founder and president Fred L. Smith, Jr. to the 100th anniversary of the LibertyWeek podcast. Fred gives us a special look back into his intellectual development and the founding of CEI and then a look forward…
Richard Morrison, Jeremy Lott, Greg Conko and Michelle Minton bring you episode 85. We put the big health care vote front and center, while also touching on protests over immigration and legal challenges to the EPA’s greenhouse gas rules. We wrap up with a…
This week, host Cord Blomquist and co-host William Yeatman, along with guest commentator Ryan Young (Richard Morrison is off this week) take a whiff of the bank nationalizations floating through the air, and say they stink. Sen. Chris Dodd’s dodgy dealings in real estate come…
