Biden Wants To Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity, but He'll Have To Cut Red Tape To Do It
Even with burgeoning private sector support, nuclear can’t thrive without regulatory reform.
Even with burgeoning private sector support, nuclear can’t thrive without regulatory reform.
A Department of Energy analysis found natural gas is the cheapest residential energy source on the market.
The plaintiffs argue that the Department of Energy has no legal authority to impose its own water use limits on energy-consuming home appliances.
The notion that COVID-19 came from a lab was once touted as misinformation. But now the FBI, the Energy Department, and others agree with Paul.
Not content with merely getting rid of Trump-era deregulation, the Biden administration is now tightening energy efficiency standards for a long list of home appliances.
The COVID-19 lab leak theory was labeled "misinformation." Now it's the most plausible explanation.
The push to label the lab leak thesis a racist conspiracy theory now looks even more foolish.
If you look closely, you'll find a lot of contradictions.
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are still the chief drivers of our future debt. But Republicans aren't touching them.
The Trump administration briefly liberalized dishwasher standards, but the Biden administration quickly reimposed the old rules.
A new proposed regulation from the Department of Energy would effectively require homeowners to shift to more expensive, more efficient condensing gas furnaces.
The Department of Energy's new energy efficiency rule drags us back to the dark days of 2013, when showers were allowed to emit no more than 2.5 gallons of water a minute.
Donald Trump legalized energy-hungry short-cycle dishwashers. The current administration is undoing that progress.
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They give an edge to big companies that have no problems accessing capital and whose executives are often well-connected with politicians.
Environmentalists criticized Trump's reforms for wasting water, while showerhead manufacturers worried the deregulation would subject them to more foreign competition.
A clean-energy future will require more than just spending money.
Campaign promises about green energy often obscure real-world constraints.
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You might finally be able to buy a dishwasher that gets the job done, unless Joe Biden changes the rules again.
"There is no free market in the energy industry," says the secretary of energy.
Some 70,000 metric tons to nuclear waste is still sitting at nuclear power plants
Four federal departments and one agency that could be shut down first.
Trump won't be able to make "deals" with every company that seeks to relocate because of onerous federal regulations. Here's why Carrier nearly left.
Former Texas governor supported taxpayer-funded slush funds for favored businesses, including some that went bankrupt.
Reform or just substituting fossil fuel crony capitalism for Obama's renewable energy crony capitalism?
"Ponzi scheme" or the end of Peak Oil?
Not an investment in the future but in people who know the right politicians
Any federal agency out there that isn't a big mess?
Potential new Department of Energy leader supports fracking
These are the people who want authority over everybody's "cybersecurity"
Hopefully they will not be dropped on Japan
Agreement part of waiver of some previous loan requirements