Last year, Berkeley became the first city in the United States to pass a ban on natural gas hookups in new buildings. Since then, about 30 local governments in California have passed restrictions…
Read moreThe Swartzentruber Amish community in Cattaraugus County, New York are in danger of having their horse-drawn carriages run into the ditch by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s all-renewable-energy express train.
Read moreEarlier this month, Joe Biden released an energy plan that calls for spending $2 trillion on building efficiency, electric vehicles, and, most important, an overhaul of the electric grid so that it relies solely on “clean” electricity by 2035.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Joe Biden unveiled a $2 trillion plan today that would require the electric grid to be relying solely on “clean” electricity by 2035. The plan, which also calls for big investments in energy…
Read moreThree years ago, John B. Rhodes, the chairman of the New York Public Service Commission, insisted that his state’s renewable-energy permitting process was not stacked against rural communities.
Read moreNew York has some of America’s most ambitious climate goals. By 2030, the state is supposed to be deriving 70 percent of its electricity from renewables and have. But renewable-energy projects are facing…
Read moreLooking back, it appears my old refrigerator was an energy hog. It used more electricity than Whirlpool claimed it would. The specification sheet claimed the machine would use about 616 kilowatt-hours per year…
Read moreLyndon Johnson’s first meeting with President Franklin Roosevelt didn’t go well. It was June 1938. Johnson had joined the House of Representatives 14 months earlier and he needed Roosevelt to approve a federal…
Read moreOn May 1, the Toledo Blade reported that a wind turbine in Bowling Green, Ohio had killed an adult bald eagle. Six days later, the Treasury Department announced that it would provide another extension…
Read moreLast week, anti-hydrocarbon activist and documentary maker Josh Fox — along with Stanford professor Mark Jacobson, Penn State climatologist Michael Mann, and several others — succeeded in briefly getting Michael Moore’s new documentary, Planet of the Humans, taken off of a website owned by a group called Films for Action.
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