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  • The Three Major Problems with a Carbon Tax

    When it comes to energy policy, Washington has one resource that appears infinitely renewable: carbon-tax proposals.

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  • Cuomo’s Green New Deal Paddles Offshore

    Building wind turbines in the water will not power New York.

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  • The Antithesis of Green

    Vast stretches of land would be needed for an all-renewable scenario. Which is why landowners are fighting solar and wind companies.

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  • Al Gore’s right about carbon capture and sequestration

    Recently 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.

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  • The numbers show we just can’t get to ‘100% renewable energy’ any decade soon

    Rep.-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.

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  • Renewable Mandates and Carbon Taxes Lost Big on Tuesday

    On 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.

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  • Why Wind Power Isn’t the Answer

    As a new study confirms, turbines would have to be stacked across state-sized swaths of the American landscape.

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  • California Climate Policies Facing Revolt from Civil-Rights Groups

    Hugely expensive green mandates will hit poor Californians the hardest.

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  • All-renewable energy in California? Sorry, land-use calculations say it’s not going to happen

    Back 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.

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  • Consumers are going to lose in Cuomo’s bet on wind energy

    During 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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