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Obama’s deluded and illegitimate battle against climate change

Installing 500 million solar panels within a few years with a goal to meet all residential demand with zero-carbon energy by 2030 is an exorbitant pipe dream.

August 9, 2016
Energy & Environment

Our health and our lifestyles depend on fossil fuels

Even the Brexit debate reflected a retreat from climate mania.

August 8, 2016
Energy & Environment

America’s full potential for energy still underground

The whole global oil market and certainly the domestic market is in a bad way now because of too much in the supply.

June 29, 2016
Energy & Environment

Climate change policies driven by power, not science

As has been the case for decades, a large contingent of environmentalists treat oil and natural gas as inherently villainous. Yet, these fuels are integral to modern prosperous societies, have lifted billions out of poverty and offer the chance for health and economic growth in the poorest countries on the earth. 

June 21, 2016
Energy & Environment

Restrain the imperial EPA

If Americans care about restraining this lawless assertion of federal regulatory power, the most important bill in Congress right now is H.R. 3880, introduced late last year by Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Ala.).

June 17, 2016
Energy & Environment

ICYMI: Book review of Fueling Freedom

While Democrats are in hock to radical environmentalism, Steve Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White’s Fueling Freedom, perhaps the most important book of this otherwise dismal election yea?r, provides the ideas around which Republicans can unite and regroup.

June 15, 2016
Energy & Environment

Why energy policy matters for the California primary

A problem with much of the energy-policy discourse on the Presidential stage now is that many of the policies proposed actually present Americans with less energy availability — and at sharply higher prices.  

June 7, 2016
Energy & Environment

Is Stanford’s decision not to divest from fossil fuels an energy awakening?

The mainstay of base load electric generation at the lowest cost, coal provides social benefits to billions of people and offers the only affordable alternative for the more than 1 billion people who still lack access to electricity.

May 11, 2016
Energy & Environment

Signing the Paris Agreement is the worst way to celebrate Earth Day

What will be labeled a global triumph will in reality likely be, if actually implemented, a tragedy for rich and poor countries alike and especially for the poor wherever they reside. The Paris agreement represents the first energy regression in mankind’s history.

April 22, 2016
Energy & Environment

Renewables are incapable of replacing hydrocarbons at scale

For a dose of reality, consider master energy number-cruncher Vaclav Smil's estimate of a cost approaching $2.5 trillion to build enough new wind and solar facilities in the United States to replace the 1,100 gigawatt (GW) generating capacity of our fossil-fueled electric system.

March 30, 2016
Energy & Environment

Is the climate crusade stalling?

At this point in time, the intermittent, and far more expensive, renewable energies cannot provide the countless energy services on which our long, healthy, affluent, and comfortable lives with personal freedom depend.

March 3, 2016
Energy & Environment

Stay the course and halt the clock on the EPA’s Clean Power Plan

If the Supreme Court wants to preserve the legal force of judicial review, stay of the rule is essential to prevent the EPA's increasingly successful circumvention of the court's restraints.

February 1, 2016
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