April 14, 2025
The Fragmented Privacy Landscape
The Current State of Privacy Regulation The United States is experiencing a rapid proliferation of state-level privacy laws, creating an increasingly complex regulatory landscape. Since California pioneered comprehensive privacy legislation with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in 2018, the trend has accelerated dramatically. Currently, 19 states have enacted their own privacy legislation, each with…
March 24, 2025
Response to the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management
This comment addresses analytic flaws and ambiguities in the U.S. Department of Energy Report 2024 LNG Export Study: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Assessment of U.S. LNG Exports, December 2024 (“Report”). The analysis presented in the Report is sufficiently weak analytically that it should not be used for evaluation of federal energy policies as a general…
May 29, 2024
Response to the Environmental Protection Agency: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New and Existing Fossil Fuel-Fired Stationary Combustion Turbines at Power Plants
Summary The Environmental Protection Agency in its “framing questions” on greenhouse gasemissions from natural gas combustion turbines at electric generating stations asserts that suchGHG emissions are important “pollutants” in the context of anthropogenic climate change. Butthat premise is not consistent with the future temperature effect — 0.017°C by 2100 — ofeliminating such emissions, as predicted…