Environment

The High Cost of California's Green Energy Policies

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Since the early 2000s, governors and legislators from both parties have signed onto a climate agenda in California that is making energy steadily unaffordable.  read more »

5 Reasons Why I'm Cancelling My Subscription to The New York Times

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We have lived in Austin for 40 years. And for nearly all of that time, Lorin and I have subscribed to the New York Times. For decades, we took the paper version.  read more »

Coal Coal Baby

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Net zero and decarbonization pledges are a dime a dozen.

Earlier this month, the Australian government released an update to its “Net Zero in Government Operations Annual Progress Report.”  read more »

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The Climate has Changed on Climate Change

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Like the Marxist dialectic, or the predictions of the Gospels, the green movement has long seen its triumph as preordained.  read more »

Mine, Baby, Mine – Right Here in the USA!

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President Trump’s Executive Orders have ended U.S. participation in the Green New Deal and Paris climate treaty.  read more »

SLAPPed

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My, oh my, how the worm has turned.

Thirteen months ago, in the op-ed pages of the New York Times , University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann and his lawyer, Peter J. Fontaine, were crowing about their victory in federal court a few days earlier.  read more »

Let Them Eat Solar Panels (and Efficiency)

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In 2013, the World Bank declared it would stop funding coal projects and would only “in rare circumstances” provide financial support for new coal plants.  read more »

RMI Led the Push to Ban Gas Stoves

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Since 2020, the Rocky Mountain Institute has been hyping bogus claims about the alleged danger of natural gas stoves.  read more »

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Climate Change, Insurance, and the LA Fires

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Scientific American blames the Los Angeles fires on climate change. A Yale University publication agrees.  read more »

LA Fires Extinguished Gavin Newsom's Presidential Dream

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Two years ago Gavin Newsom was widely seen as a rising Democratic star and likely future presidential candidate.  read more »