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New Federal Rules Written to Increase Electric Supply Competition in New York

Published June 1, 2020

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The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued orders imposing minimum bid prices on subsidized renewable energy resources in New York’s energy capacity market, increasing competition for power suppliers.
- Environment & Energy
Trump Administration Approves Economically and Environmentally Costly Nevada Solar Project

Published May 28, 2020

By H. Sterling Burnett

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The U.S. Department of Interior has approved the largest solar installation in U.S. history, a 690-megawatt project to be constructed on federal land approximately 30 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Environment & Energy
Trump Administration Backs Aquaculture Expansion

Published May 27, 2020

By H. Sterling Burnett

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President Donald Trump’s issued an executive order directing federal agencies develop plans to boost domestic seafood production, in part by reducing regulatory barriers to commercial fishing and fish farming in federal waters.
- Environment & Energy
‘Planet of the Humans’: Michael Moore Goes Off the (Ideological) Grid

Published May 25, 2020

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“Planet of the Humans” an entertaining and educational primer on the hype, phoniness, and lies behind green energy projects.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
Shameless Alarmists Spread Climate Change Cancer Horror Story

Published May 21, 2020

By H. Sterling Burnett

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Climate Change Weekly #360
- Environment & Energy
NERA Petition Seeks to End State Net Metering

Published May 20, 2020

By Tim Benson

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The New England Ratepayers Association has filed petition with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to end the ability of states to pass on the costs of roof top solar panel installations to ratepayers in general.
- Environment & Energy
Where Did the Water Go?

Published May 20, 2020

By Greg E. Walcher

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Colorado River managers have struggled for years to administer interstate agreements in the face of dwindling flows. It was an issue long before anyone heard of global warming, yet we’re now told that is why the river has less water than it used to.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
The Real Climate Science Deniers

Published May 19, 2020

By Paul Driessen

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Manmade climate crisis promoters reject inconvenient evidence of natural climate change
- Environment & Energy
The Dark Side of Renewable Electricity

Published May 19, 2020

By Ronald Stein, P.E.

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The dark side of renewable wind, solar and biofuel energy is that they are not clean, green, renewable or sustainable.
Trump Administration Interior Department Budget Shifts Priorities

Published May 18, 2020

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In its 2021 fiscal budget, the Trump administration has proposed an increase over its request for the Department of Interior in 2020.
Newsom Pointing Finger in the Wrong Direction for Gas Prices

Published May 18, 2020

By Ronald Stein, P.E.

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As America recovers from the COVID-19 shelter-in-place mandates, California cannot rid itself from the continuing and state-prescribed high costs of energy that other states are not shackled with.
- Environment & Energy
Federal Judge Halts Keystone XL Pipeline Construction, Again

Published May 15, 2020

By H. Sterling Burnett

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For the second time in three years, Judge Brian Morris, of the United States District Court for Montana intervened to block construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
Green Energy Push Would Wreck Post-Coronavirus Economic Recovery

Published May 14, 2020

By H. Sterling Burnett

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Climate Change Weekly #359
- Economy
- Government Spending
Will Utility Bills on Low-Income Citizens Increase During the Pandemic?

Published May 14, 2020

By Tim Benson

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At the end of April, Illinois utility regulators issued a call to repeal a pro-consumer federal order, called the Minimum Price Order Rule. Here's what this means.
- Environment & Energy
New EPA Rule Keeps Power Plants Operating in Pennsylvania and West Virginia

Published May 13, 2020

By H. Sterling Burnett

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a new rule covering acid gas emissions from a few small power plants that reduce waste left behind from mining operations by burning it to produce electricity.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
Michael Moore and Driessen Agree! Wind, Solar and Biofuel Energy Are Devastating Planet Earth

Published May 13, 2020

By Paul Driessen

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Never in my wildest dreams did I envision a day when I’d agree with anything filmmaker Michael Moore said – much less that he would agree with me.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
USA Today Pushes Climate Panic

Published May 13, 2020

By David Wojick

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USA Today is pushing climate doomsday predictions based on flawed models.
- Environment & Energy
Trump Administration Changes the Way Environmental Costs and Benefits Are Calculated

Published May 11, 2020

By H. Sterling Burnett

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized a new rule, proposed in 2019, altering the way the federal government calculates the costs and benefits of Mercury and Air Toxics.
Trump Administration Delays Summer Season Fuel Switch

Published May 7, 2020

By H. Sterling Burnett

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is delaying the normally required shift to summertime gasoline blends after the coronavirus pandemic caused a plummet in demand, leaving, pipelines, refineries, and storage tanks full of winter-grade fuel.
- Environment & Energy
U.S. EPA Maintains Current Soot Standards

Published May 5, 2020

By H. Sterling Burnett

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced, after careful review of the best available evidence, it would retain, without changes, standards for particulate matter pollution, more commonly known as soot.
- Environment & Energy
- Health Care
Alphabet Unit Experiment Shows Promise in Reducing Disease Bearing Mosquitos

Published May 4, 2020

By H. Sterling Burnett

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A project operated by Verily Life Sciences to wipe out mosquitos that spread diseases including dengue fever, malaria, West Nile virus, and Zika among others, is having success in tests at three sites in California.
- Environment & Energy
- Health Care
States Suspending Plastic Bag Bans in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

Published April 30, 2020

By H. Sterling Burnett

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Numerous cities and states with plastic bag bans are suspending these policies in response to public health concerns raised about the safety of alternative reusable bags during the Coronavirus pandemic.
- Environment & Energy
U.S. BLM Washington Insiders Quit Rather than Accept Relocation to the Nation’s Heartland

Published April 27, 2020

By H. Sterling Burnett

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More than half of the U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management’s Washington, D.C. staff have quit rather than accept transfers to Colorado and other western states to be closer to the lands they manage.
Hawaii Democrats Are Pushing a Broad Carbon Dioxide Tax

Published April 27, 2020

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Senate Democrats who passed Senate Bill 3150 which would impose a $40 per metric ton tax on of carbon dioxide emissions beginning in 2021, incrementally increasing the tax rate in stages to reach a price of $80 per metric ton by 2030.