BP announced the discovery of $59 billion worth of oil in the waters south of New Orleans. Will Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal stifle that economic boom for U.S. workers or use it?
Beto O’Rourke supports the “concept” of a Green New Deal, a proposed economic stimulus program designed to transition the U.S. from fossil fuels to 100 percent renewable energy within a decade, joining other potential 2020 presidential candidates in backing the initiative.
In the 2018 midterm elections, voters in several states cast ballots in favor of energy and natural gas development.
President Trump has warned at a NATO summit that German dependence on Russian gas poses a major security threat to the West. It’s about time somebody said it!
A California regulatory board has passed a regulation that will require all new homes built in the state to be powered by solar panels.
A 40-county California tax data analysis by the Wall Street Journal has shown an increase in payment defaults related to “green” small, high-interest loans.
California is producing so much green energy that it is forced to pay other states like Arizona to take its excess solar-generated electricity.
The ultimate hope for Middle American jobs is to make permanent the viability, even desirability, of fossil fuels. And yet fossil fuels will only be safe to use, long term, if they are safeguarded by the addition of new clean technology, endorsed and ratified by specific Congressional action.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal government will spend $1.34 trillion on ObamaCare over the next decade, if it’s not repealed. 2016’s ObamaCare spending was estimated at $110 billion.
A green energy scandal that is saw people heating empty buildings just to collect government grants could cost British taxpayers more than £1 billion. The UK Treasury faces a huge bill after spending on Northern Ireland’s Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)
Living near wind turbines can cause stress, anxiety and sleep loss, a government report has admitted. The report, commissioned by the former Department for Energy and Climate Change last year, found a “clear link” between the amount of noise emitted
German consumers are set to see the cost of their electricity hiked once again as the government attempts to cover the cost of a drive towards green energy sources. Germans will be paying a 8.3 percent more next year to
In endorsing Hillary Clinton as the Democrat’s choice for President, Sen. Bernie Sanders decried “greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior” and declared that we couldn’t let “billionaires buy elections.”
Today’s “No Shit Sherlock” award goes to the New York Times’s environment pages for their belated discovery that renewable energy is a lame duck.
A leading solar power lobbying organization’s promises of growth in Texas continue to sit under a cloud of economic challenges. Amid cheap natural gas prices and established wind farms in much of the solar-friendly regions, solar panel arrays are proving a tough sell.
Every year since 2008 when it was bailed out by the UK taxpayer, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been losing money. Now – thanks to the Guardian‘s Chief Enviro Loon, the Hon. Damian Carrington – we have an
Appearing at a CNN town hall in Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton promised that in her administration, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
Yes, the past always repeats itself. In our first installment, we saw how, in the 18th century, the English aristocracy went about clearing the peasants off of valuable land. To be sure, everything that the aristocrats did was legal — of course it was, because the gentry wrote the laws.
President Obama touted his budget proposal’s doubling of funds for clean energy research by 2020 and argued that clean energy has “helped grow our economy” during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Hi everybody. One of the things that makes
Fans of Ted Cruz are buzzing about his encounter with an angry farmer worried that the Senator’s stance against ethanol would ruin his livelihood.
Having a successful business takes a lot of hard work, good market analysis, a better product or service than the competition, and advertising. Add in a bit of luck, and hopefully it will grow. If, however, you are a politically favored business—say solar—your story is different.
The Associated Press struggles mightily to avoid admitting that the Paris “climate conference” was a very expensive dystopian fantasy, in which world leaders soaked their taxpayers and also spewed vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere with their luxury jets, just to hold the world’s largest “Mad Max” live-action role-playing game
We have a load of headlines and sound bites about how “the end of the fossil fuel era” and Paris has put oil decisively on “the wrong side of history” – which is, not coincidentally, the same term our effete ruling class and inept President Obama use to describe ISIS terrorism. Meanwhile, as New York magazine noted, many proponents of the Paris plan “agree that its value is more about symbolism and hoped-for gains than near-term substance, and critics are zooming in on the agreement’s lack of legal teeth, as well as how optimistic it seems to be about future international cooperation, technological advancement, and the sustained domestic will within each country.”
(Reuters) – Britain has lost its top-notch energy policy rating from the U.N.-accredited World Energy Council after the government prematurely cut some renewable energy subsidies, creating uncertainty about how it will address support in future. The World Energy Council has
Americans are sick of the bickering in Washington and want both parties to cooperate and get something done. Friday, October 9, offered proof that this can still happen. The house passed H.R. 702, the bill to lift the decades old oil export ban—with 26 Democrats joining the majority of Republicans and voting for it.
John Kasich, who bills himself as a “conservative” while campaigning for the 2016 GOP nomination, is pushing for more severe “green energy” mandates in his home state of Ohio.
A Reuters piece Tuesday accuses certain U.S. bishops of open opposition to Pope Francis’ call for respect for the environment, citing several new contracts for drilling rights to oil and gas companies.
Green subsidies are to be slashed again, as the new Tory cabinet “hardens” its stance on eco policies. Cabinet source have said a “big reset” is coming this autumn on subsidies, which are paid for by consumers and push up
Forget subsidy-hungry wind, solar and hydro power alternatives. Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott believes coal is the future because it’s good for humanity. To prove he is a man of his word, Mr Abbott’s conservative coalition government has approved another massive new thermal coal mine for
The risk of blackouts this winter has increased compared with a year ago, according to National Grid. More people demanding more energy at a time when new power stations are a rarity means that as supply meets demand something has to
Australia has slammed the door shut on any new government-funded investment in renewable energy schemes as Prime Minister Tony Abbott extends his “war on wind power”. In doing so Mr Abbott has sent a clear message to the mendicant green
UK Chancellor George Osborne is expected to scrap green tax targets in the summer budget to be announced Wednesday. The move is designed to bring down the cost of renewable energy as subsidies spiral out of control. Conservative Members of Parliament
A leading left-wing think tank has warned that rising green levies will create an angry public backlash. But rather than arriving at the obvious conclusion – that green energy costs too much to be sustainable – they have called for
A Scottish quango is handing out £2.4 million in subsidies to companies willing to try their hand at cracking the problem of wave power technology. The generous grants, of up to £300,000 per company, represent only the first round of spending
Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott is no fan of wind turbines. Far from it. In the past he has called them “ugly” and “noisy”. Now he has slammed them as “visually awful” after coming face-to-face with the Green left’s favourite source
The Export-Import Bank generates headlines because, after more than three-quarters of a century, it is about to go away. But it won’t go away if Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, can do something about it.
Liberal billionaire Michael Bloomberg has announced that through his Clean Energy Initiative he is pumping $48 million into helping the states meet President Obama’s new mandated climate change goals.
Power company PacifiCorp will cough up $2.5 million in fines after its Wyoming wind farm was found to have killed 38 golden eagles and 336 other protected birds. The Justice Department prosecuted the company’s green energy project, asserting that the company failed to build the windmills in a way that would minimize the threat to endangered birds.
Attempts to ‘green’ the national grid are posing a security threat as they make the system more vulnerable to hacking, it has emerged. The revelation comes amid warnings that Britain’s National Grid is under constant attack by hackers. A Member
