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  • Despoiling The Environment To Save The Climate

    Bill McKibben loves the climate. Unfortunately, he hates the environment.

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  • Wind Backlash Takes Center Stage In Vermont’s Gubernatorial Race

    The backlash against Big Wind is taking place from Maine to California. But few states have seen more resistance to the landscape-destroying sprawl of wind energy than Vermont.

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  • Upstate Power Play

    New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s renewable-energy ambitions are running headlong into the hard realities of maintaining a reliable electric grid.

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  • Democrats Ignore Inconvenient Math On Nuclear Power

    The Democratic National Convention, in Philadelphia, doesn’t start until July 25, but a look at the party’s draft platform reveals one fact: Democrats remain hopelessly unserious when it comes to greenhouse gases and climate change.

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  • Backlash Against Big Wind: Booing Sierra Clubbers In Pennnsylvania

    If you need another example of the growing backlash against the encroachment of the wind industry, consider this: residents of Penn Forest Township, Pennsylvania, are booing the Sierra Clubbers.

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  • Solar’s Great And So Is Wind, But We Still Need Nuclear Power

    If you are concerned about climate change, then you should take note of this: Over the past eight months, utilities from New York to Nebraska have announced plans to shutter six nuclear reactors by 2019.

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  • Wind-Energy Sector Gets $176 Billion Worth of Crony Capitalism

    Last month, during its annual conference, the American Wind Energy Association issued a press release trumpeting the growth of wind-energy capacity. It quoted the association’s CEO, Tom Kiernan, who declared that the wind business is “an American success story.”

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  • It’s Time To Stop Fighting Fracking

    There’s no better — or bigger — illustration of the reversal of America’s energy fortunes than the Gaslog Salem, the 98,000-ton, 935-foot-long liquefied natural gas tanker that left port in Cameron Parish, La., in late April bound for Portugal.

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  • An Ill Wind: Open Season On Bald Eagles

    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency charged with protecting bald and golden eagles, is once again trying to make it easier for the wind industry to kill those birds.

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  • $40 Oil And The Twilight of ‘Scarcity Ideology’

    Scarcity ideology pervades modern environmentalism. Indeed, the environmental movement has long relied on the idea that we are running out of, well, everything.

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