The culprit is deregulation—not just in Texas and not just in electricity.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Frozen: Natural Disaster, Energy Choices, and Inhuman Responses in Texas
The Lone Star State is in free fall, pointing fingers everywhere else.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Four More Years of Trump Would Be an Environmental ‘Fiasco’
The administration has established a record of protecting polluters and undermining regulation.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
When Going Green Collides With the Free Market
Texas’s chaotic, deregulated energy market was key to Georgetown’s claim to be the nation’s renewable-energy leader. It’s also the reason their project backfired.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Conservative Judiciary’s Fatal Attraction to Deregulation
A Neil Gorsuch ruling in 2016 has led to a marked increase in serious injuries to children from ingesting magnets.
Posted inBooks
Is Our Economists Learning?
The economics profession has a lot to answer for, but even its sharpest thinkers seem too wedded to a disproven pre–financial crisis mindset.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
House Agriculture Committee Tries to Sneak Through Weak Financial Regulator Bill
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is a critical derivatives regulator, and a House reauthorization fails to fortify it.
Posted inTAP
Tailor-Made for Disaster
Today on TAP: More bank deregulation from the Trump administration
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Exxon Refinery Explosion Another By-Product of Trump Deregulation
The Trump administration is working to roll back a chemical safety disaster rule, putting communities like Baytown, Texas, at risk.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Deregulation Led to the Opioid Epidemic
In 2001, Congress rescinded the ergonomics standard that was designed to stem a range of common disabling workplace injuries. Absent regulation, injuries increased and large numbers of people were treated with addictive pain medications.
