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EU Probes UK Aid to Convert Huge Drax Coal Power Plant to Biomass

Brussels (AFP) – The EU launched an investigation Tuesday into whether British government aid to convert the giant Drax power station from coal to more environmentally friendly biomass breaches the bloc’s state aid rules. The massive Drax complex in north-eastern

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Time To Blow Away Wind Tax Credit: Lawmakers

The federal government wants Americans to use wind power, which is produced here in the U.S. and doesn’t put out any emissions. So wind is heavily subsidized in the tax code. The bill to taxpayers will total at least $6.4 billion over the next decade.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Hydrogen Highway (Ann Johannson / Associated Press)

California Dupes Taxpayers into Building the Hydrogen Highway

The California Energy Commission is honoring ex-Governor Schwarzenegger’s dream by spending another $20 million to build the supposedly non-polluting ‘hydrogen highway’ through most parts of the Golden State. A high school freshman math class could figure out that the reason

Jerry Brown (AP)

California Missing Manufacturing Boom Due to Alternative Energy Subsidies

Despite California having the largest manufacturing base in the nation, the state is growing high-paying manufacturing jobs at only one seventh of the U.S. average. The culprit in this debacle is Governor Brown’s wildly expensive alternative energy mandates that stab industrial manufacturers with electrical costs that are about double the U.S. average.