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‘Green jobs’ in the German renewables sector have collapsed by 50 per cent in less than a decade. No prizes for guessing where they’ve gone…

During an appearance on Birmingham, AL radio 105.5 WERC’s “Alabama’s Morning News,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) lamented the drastic shift in energy policy under President Joe Biden.

Rebecca Mansour warned Joe Biden’s energy policy proposals would facilitate further offshoring of U.S. auto manufacturing jobs to China.

Rebecca Mansour joined Dan Proft to explain how Joe Biden’s proposed energy policies could destroy millions of jobs in the automotive industry.

Trump told the RNC: “How can Joe Biden claim to be an ‘ally of the Light’ when his own party can’t even keep the lights on?”

California’s recent blackouts are a warning that Joe Biden’s version of the Green New Deal cannot be achieved without suffering power shortages.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that the state had to “sober up” about the fact that renewable energy sources had failed to provide enough power for the state at peak demand, and needed “backup” and “insurance” from other sources.

California suffered a second day of rolling electricity blackouts on Saturday evening, with wind power and solar power unable to provide needed backup.

Drew Bond and John Hart believe that conservatives have the right solutions to address climate change through free market capitalism.

A UK developer is considering building the world’s largest solar power farm, but campaigners warn that the project poses significant risks.

An artificial depression created around the coronavirus outbreak will kill thousands of Americans, explained Jacki Pick.

According to a recent report, Tesla solar panel owners across Massachusetts have had issues receiving customer support for their panels, with some left waiting almost a full year without any help from Elon Musk’s company.

Following reports of Tesla solar panels catching fire at Walmart and Amazon locations, residential owners are now claiming that Tesla solar panels on their homes are now causing fires.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in the U.S. on Wednesday after a solar-powered sailing trip from England to attend a U.N. summit.

E-commerce giant Amazon has backed up claims by retailer Walmart that Tesla solar panels caught fire at multiple Walmart locations across the United States by claiming that it experienced its own fire related to the solar panels at a warehouse in California.

Greta Thunberg took a sailboat instead of flying to a U.N. summit to fight climate change, but some people on her team will take planes.

Goldsmiths, University of London announced this week that they are banning all beef products from campus in an effort to fight climate change.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — What if alternative energy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be? That’s the provocative question explored in the documentary “Planet of the Humans,” which is backed and promoted by filmmaker Michael Moore and directed by one of his longtime collaborators. It premiered last week at his Traverse City Film Festival.

Michael Bloomberg is giving away more of his personal fortune to advance his radical environmental agenda, this time pledging $500 million to shutter every coal mine in the United States and slow the production of cheap, clean, and plentiful natural gas.

Tesla’s solar ambitions are in deep trouble according to reports. Solar cells designed to replace roofing shingles are reportedly not working out well for the company, with the majority of solar cells being exported overseas. The company is facing fresh scrutiny about its factory in Buffalo, New York, and the promises it made to the state to employ a certain number of workers at the facility.

Senators call on the U.S. government to block Huawei from U.S. energy market just as it has the U.S. telecom market.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) tweeted his enthusiasm for the Green New Deal, calling it “the new climate democracy.”

Don’t believe the hype from the increasingly desperate renewables industry: solar power has crashed and burned.

Israel has approved a plan to build a solar field in Israel to pump power into the Gaza Strip and ease the electricity crisis in the Palestinian enclave, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday.

Don’t laugh too hard but this has been a terrible week for the renewable energy dream. Across the world solar energy share prices have crashed. This was caused by a sudden and unexpected decision by China, the world’s biggest solar manufacturer and user, to rein in subsidies.

A California regulatory board has passed a regulation that will require all new homes built in the state to be powered by solar panels.

The U.S. Justice Department is reducing the huge backlog in the immigration courts by using video-streaming to enable U.S. judges in Puerto Rico to oversee cases in mainland courtrooms, despite the huge damage inflicted on the island by recent storms.

California unions killed the Democrats’ last-minute push to force the state to adopt 100 percent renewable electricity production by 2046, over worries the nation’s highest utility costs are killing jobs.

The Department of Energy announced last week that American taxpayers are providing millions of dollars to develop solar power projects across the country, including funding for seven companies in California and $2 million to a solar business in Texas, home of Energy Secretary and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

A new investigation into crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells may result in increased tariffs on solar panels imported into the United States.

The August 21 total solar eclipse will be the first visible across all of the continental United States since March 7, 1970.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FECR) forensic audit of the Oroville Dam Spillway crisis project found that failures were due to inadequate California Department of Water Resources (DWR) maintenance, repair of cracks, thin concrete slabs, poor drainage, and use of weathered rock.

The BrightSource Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Facility, which uses 320,000 mirrors to create thermal energy, still qualifies under state rules as an alternative energy source, despite using about 1.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas a year, according to a report by the Press Telegram.

Deep in the Negev desert in Israel, stands what will be the world’s tallest solar tower. Once complete, the tower will be 250 metres tall and encircled by 50,000 heliostat solar mirrors.

Despite the U.S. Congress passing the Consolidated Appropriations Act in December 2015 to slather another $9.3 billion of taxpayer credits on new solar power added to the electrical grid, California solar installments peaked in 2015 and are now headed south.

Israel is planning a tender for building its largest ever solar power facility, which will have a capacity of up to 500 megawatts, in the southern Negev desert.