MOX Misses the Mark

Despite the ever-increasing price tag, incessant delays in progress, and known safety risks, the Department of Energy continues to pour federal subsidies into the Mixed Oxide Fuel (MOX) program year after year. ...

Federal-Free Risk Management in Agriculture

Like all businesses, agricultural producers face a number of risks in maintaining a profitable enterprise. Successful management of these...

Senate Finance Committee Meets to Talk Energy Tax Reform

The Senate Committee on Finance held a hearing last week on tax reform and its impacts on energy policy. Among the four witnesses from...

Senate Ag Committee: More is Less

(Originally published June 8, 2012) With debate on the 2012 Farm Bill underway on the Senate Floor, proponents of this nearly trillion...

Why Transportation Reauthorization Negotiations Are Failing: The Pay-fors Just Don’t Add Up

Congress continues to meet behind closed doors in a Conference Committee to hash out the details of a transportation bill...

Dept. of Energy Offers USEC $280 Million Handout

In yet another attempt to revive the struggling United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC), the Department of Energy (DOE) has offered...

Taylorville Energy Center Pulls Plug on its Coal Project

It appears that one of the top contenders for a loan guarantee under the Department of Energy program has decided to abandon original...

Department of Energy Loan Guarantees: Uranium Enrichment

The Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program was created in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to provide Treasury backed loan...

Spending Even Less, Spending Even Smarter

Watchdog Groups Identify Nearly $700 Billion in Wasteful Spending on National Security...

Farm Safety Net Proposals that Fail to Save

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has released a report that will help you study up for this Wednesday’s Senate Farm Bill mark-up...

Engineering Boondoggles

While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...