If climate change is an emergency that requires immediate action, it makes sense to streamline environmental reviews that tangle green energy projects in red tape.
Europe is facing an energy crisis, but bureaucrats need to realize that long-term climate goals can be addressed without sacrificing the well-being of the population.
Climate scientist Andrew Dessler of Texas A&M University defends urgent action on climate against scientist and author Steven Koonin.
Green activists have some good points. But the pursuit of a chemical-free world hurts vulnerable people the most.
Amid a heat wave, warnings were sent out not to recharge electric vehicles during peak hours.
From student debt cancellation to green subsidies, the White House is giving handouts paid for by hardworking lower-wage Americans.
America gets about 42 megawatts of power from offshore wind. Another 18,000 megawatts are currently tied up in permitting battles.
Leaving the country dependent on Russian natural gas was not too smart.
This stunt to save energy will do very little but make people sweat
Brayton Point was a coal-fired plant that tried to clean up its act. Protesters and politicians demanded its closure. A new offshore wind project won't be sufficient to replace it.
A push toward wind energy threatens to kill more eagles. Markets can help.
Unrealistic policy and dependency on fickle neighbors like Russia are no substitute for working power plants.
Good intentions, bad results.
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Strongly held wishes and pixie dust won’t deliver a green utopia.
The president's argument is amazing for its tone-deafness, inconsistent thinking, and sheer economic ignorance.
Over the last 100 years, we've seen a 98 percent decrease in climate-related deaths. You can thank fossil fuels.
Well-intentioned regulation often constrains the development and deployment of clean technologies.
Nuclear power wasn’t green enough for German leaders, so now they depend on energy from Russia.
Bad policy and unpredictable nature are sending food prices through the roof.
The cryptocurrency is spurring use of renewable energy even as it undermines existing economic, political, and cultural elites.
They give an edge to big companies that have no problems accessing capital and whose executives are often well-connected with politicians.
A clean-energy future will require more than just spending money.
So many people are leaving the state that it will soon lose a congressional seat.
Never let a good manufactured crisis go to waste
Campaign promises about green energy often obscure real-world constraints.
Critics say the state's dependence on solar and wind have made the power grid unreliable and overly expensive.
New nuclear reactors are important for clean power, but are hindered by intense regulatory schemes.
Something as simple as black paint may reduce avian mortalities from wind power.
Clean technologies can compete (and win) if barriers to participation are removed.
Finger-wagging won't overcome the collective action problems preventing action.
"It's upside-down Robin Hood.”
The state treats burning trash as a renewable energy source worthy of taxpayer support.
New research debunks a study claiming there's a low-cost way to power America using only wind, solar, and hydropower.
Still, it is always good to have some idea of what tradeoffs proposed policies would impose.
Trump will not stop 'irrevocable' transition to clean energy, say activists
The momentum away from fossil fuels and toward renewables is 'undeniable and irresistible' assert activists.
Subsidies for Everybody! Nukes evidently need subsidies to compete with renewable subsidies.
Forcing poor people to forego economic development in order to prevent climate change is 'morally dubious'
For some progressives it is more important to redistribute tax money than to save the climate.
If America wants to wean off coal, it needs natural gas, and the pipelines that carry it.
"World will discover a clean energy breakthrough that will save our planet and power our world."
The rough road to adopting a universal climate treaty at Paris in December
We are supposed trust government technocrats - what could possibly go wrong?
A lot of pain for what gain?
According to Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz
