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Environment & Energy
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Climate Change Weekly # 536 — Budget-Busting Climate Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act Must Go
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
Paying For What Ought To Be Free
Opinion -Environmental groups and universities are already working to mitigate climate change and reduce fossil fuels. So, we’re paying some to do what they were doing anyway, and paying others not to do what they weren’t doing anyway. -
Small Modular Reactors Will Benefit Developing Economies
Opinion -Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) hold the potential to revolutionize the clean electricity landscape by providing scalable and flexible solutions across both the developed and the developing world. -
Mine, Baby, Mine – Right Here in the USA!
Opinion -President Trump's termination of climate, wind and solar programs will benefit wild, scenic and agricultural lands all across Planet Earth — and America's mineral-rich public lands can be explored with minimal impacts on the ecological values we all cherish. -
PRESS RELEASE: New Study Details the Green Scam That Is the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’
Opinion -Press Release -“The Inflation Reduction Act is a robbery of such magnitude that it makes the Lufthansa heist look like child’s play over chump change.” - Tim Benson -
Controlling Ways to Generate Electricity Through Subsidies Is a Terrible Plan for the Planet
Opinion -While billions of people in many parts of the world, such as India, China, Egypt, and many countries in Africa, Asia, and the Americas must burn cow dung as fuel, the few in the wealthy countries believe they can control climate change through subsidies. -
The Energy Literacy Revolution: How Ronald Stein is Instigating Smarter Conversations
Opinion -Through his weekly op-eds and public speaking engagements, Ronald continues to challenge assumptions, provoke discussions, and advocate for energy policies that balance sustainability with practicality. -
Climate Change Weekly # 535 — Paris Climate Treaty Is Going Down
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
A Simple Way to Save the Grid from More Wind and Solar
Opinion -The President says he would like to stop new wind power development from wrecking America’s electric power grid. There is a simple and sensible way to do this that stops solar as well. -
California Governor Newsom Has Positioned the State to Be a National Security Risk for the Entire USA
Opinion -In his nearly six years in office, Governor Newsom has aggressively moved to shut down oil production in California. Statewide production has fallen by more than one-third under his watch. -
Climate Change Weekly # 534 — Carbon Capture and Storage Is a Bad Climate Policy
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
Let’s Use What We Already Have
Opinion -If leaders want to dominate the global AI industry, they ought to build data centers where that infrastructure already exists. -
Energy Literacy: Understanding Crude Oil’s Vital Role
Opinion -Today, American policymakers setting “green” policies are oblivious to the reality that electricity came after the discovery of crude oil, and everything that needs electricity is made with the products made from oil derivatives. -
Climate Change Weekly # 533 —Trump’s Energy and Climate EOs Thus Far: Pt. 2
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
Deficiencies in Dominion’s Offshore Wind Permits
Opinion -The Trump administration is currently looking at the history and procedure of offshore wind permits. -
MEDIA ADVISORY: Offshore Wind Projects Could Be Imperiled by Trump’s Executive Orders
Opinion -Press Release -Offshore wind industry should be more worried that even projects started during the Biden administration could be canceled. -
Shovel, Baby, Shovel
Opinion -At least four first-day executive orders were about re-starting domestic energy production, especially one entitled, “Unleashing American energy.” That executive order also includes a less-reported provision called Section 9, related not to oil and gas drilling, but to mining. -
Trump Truth Bombs ‘Green’ Energy (Five EOs)
Opinion -On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed five wide-ranging executive orders that radically change United States energy and climate policy. -
Planet Earth’s Natural Resources Are Limited to Its 8 Billion Residents
Opinion -Today, with 8 billion humans on this planet, the few wealthy countries are extracting natural resources at alarming rates, and they are NOT being replenished. -
Confusion Grows Over Offshore Wind Controls
Opinion -Confusion is the price of progress. -
Climate Change Weekly # 532 — Energy, Climate Top Agenda Items for Trump’s Busy First Days: Pt. 1
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
Western Offshore Wind EIS is MIA
Opinion -In summary the so-called California Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement is nothing of the kind. The full Offshore Wind Program needs to be assessed for the entire West Coast before any project is approved for construction. This required assessment is Missing in Action. -
Scapegoating Climate to Hide Callous Government Interference
Opinion -The Palisades and Malibu wildfires are a doubly horrific tragedy, because the death and devastation could largely have been prevented. -
America Needs to Reestablish Its World-Leading Manifestation of Nuclear-Generated Electricity
Opinion -American ingenuity advanced nuclear technology to a world-class innovation to benefit all. Interestingly, the methods used in the rest of the world are copies of the American innovations.