When it comes to energy policy, Washington has one resource that appears infinitely renewable: carbon-tax proposals.
Read moreBuilding wind turbines in the water will not power New York.
Read moreVast stretches of land would be needed for an all-renewable scenario. Which is why landowners are fighting solar and wind companies.
Read moreRecently at COP24, the United Nations conference on climate change in Katowice, Poland, during an interview with Amy Harder of Axios, former vice president Al Gore unloaded on carbon capture and sequestration — the process that extracts carbon dioxide from exhaust streams, concentrates it, and injects it underground.
Read moreRep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave a short speech this week to a group of climate-change protesters — 51 of whom were arrested for unlawfully demonstrating — staging a sit-in in the offices of likely new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Read moreOn Tuesday, Democrats won a majority in the U.S. House as well as gubernatorial races in several key state races. But a look at the results from four states — Colorado, Arizona, Florida, and Washington — shows that voters are still skeptical of bans on hydrocarbon production, renewable-energy mandates, and carbon taxes.
Read moreAs a new study confirms, turbines would have to be stacked across state-sized swaths of the American landscape.
Read moreHugely expensive green mandates will hit poor Californians the hardest.
Read moreBack in 2012, the environmental organization 350.org and its leader, Bill McKibben, took a “Do the Math” tour across America to talk about “the terrifying math of the climate crisis.” Alas, it appears McKibben has since developed an allergy to simple arithmetic.
Read moreDuring his successful 1932 run for the White House, New York Gov. Franklin Roosevelt campaigned hard on the issue of electricity affordability. In a speech in Portland, Ore., he told voters that as governor, he had made sure that the New York Public Service Commission was acting “as an agent of the public.”
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