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USEC’s Paducah Uranium Enrichment Facility Closing

The United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) announced Friday it will shut down its Paducah gaseous diffusion plant, a Cold War-era...

Skagit River Bridge Collapse

As you have no doubt heard by now, an interstate bridge collapsed on a major travel corridor in Washington State. The bridge spans the...

Disaster Reforms for Resiliency

Over the past decade, extreme weather and storms have become increasingly commonplace – including coastal storms, wildfires, droughts,...

Fighting Deficit Reduction

The most recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s $955 billion farm bill continues to show...

2013 House and Senate Farm Bills Stack on More Subsidies

As we expected, the House and Senate Agriculture Committees went to great lengths this week to save as little money as possible in their...

Paltry Savings Proposed in 2013 House and Senate Farm Bills

Late last week, the House and Senate Agriculture Committees released new drafts of five-year farm bills that propose paltry savings--$18...

House Subcommittee Discusses BLM Budget

The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and related Agencies held a hearing today to discuss the FY2014...

New Report Casts Further Doubt on Troubled FutureGen Project

A recent report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) questions whether or not the nearly decade long, $1.65 billion FutureGen...

First Award for Small Modular Reactor Program Announced

The Department of Energy (DOE) and Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) announced yesterday that a subsidiary of B&W—B&W mPower, LLC—will...

TCS Analysis of the FY14 Presidential Budget Request

Taxpayers for Common Sense staff will be combing through the budget over the next several hours and days and bringing to light various...

Syria: Excuse 535 To Not Cut the Deficit

Volume XVIII No. 37 Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...