Originally Posted at The Des Moines Register At least at an intellectual level I understand the GOP fixation with “reducing the regulatory burden on businesses,” and how that leads to wanting to slash environmental regulations. But that doesn’t explain some of what’s going on here. Under the category of actual good policy, Governor Branstad...
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There has been and will be a lot of ink spilled (literal and virtual) regarding the meaning of the Deepwater Horizon disaster; especially what it says about our dependence on oil. But if you want to really understand it — and what it means for us — you can probably do no better than...
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Nichole Gelinas at The National Review makes a couple of good points about how markets can help price oil production externalities. But this is nowhere near a comprehensive solution, nor is it any argument against other policies designed to influence demand for oil. Full Post Gelinas makes a good point. But this is hardly...
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The New York Times is running a multi-part series, called Toxic Waters regarding the increasingly poor quality of drinking water across the US. This, despite the Clean Water Act. One of the key points in the series is that despite many thousands of documented violations of state and federal clean water regulations every year,...
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