Many Native Americans Struggle With Poverty. Easing Energy Regulations Could Help.
A significant percentage of Native Americans don't even have electricity—thanks in part to reservations being subject to overwhelming bureaucracy.
A significant percentage of Native Americans don't even have electricity—thanks in part to reservations being subject to overwhelming bureaucracy.
Coal and natural gas are more reliable but they can't compete with massively subsidized wind and solar. That's a problem.
Some politicians and environmentalists want to tear down Snake River dams in Washington state, even though they generate tons of electricity.
The Show Me State has plenty of room to rein in laws on taking private property, but instead, lawmakers are focusing only on one very narrow use case.
In California, which has a slew of renewable energy regulations, the cost of electricity increased three times faster than in the rest of the U.S.—and the state still doesn't even get reliable energy.
Yup, blame the Jones Act. Again.
The comedian blames America's endless reams of regulatory red tape for slowing down new wind farms, housing, and public toilets.
Land-hungry biomass, wind, and solar power are set to occupy an area equivalent of the size of the European Union by 2050.
"When we look at solar and wind around the world, it always correlates to rising prices and declining reliability."
Robert Zubrin’s The Case for Nukes highlights the connection between energy and freedom.
If you look closely, you'll find a lot of contradictions.
"Engineers are really good at making things better, but they can't make them better than the laws of physics permit."
Many politicians who want to ban gas-powered vehicles appear to misunderstand the science.
The Port of Albany will forgo more than $29 million in federal funding for the delayed $300 million project.
Climate scientist Andrew Dessler of Texas A&M University defends urgent action on climate against scientist and author Steven Koonin.
Texas A&M University's Andrew Dessler vs. Steven Koonin, former undersecretary for science at the Department of Energy
America gets about 42 megawatts of power from offshore wind. Another 18,000 megawatts are currently tied up in permitting battles.
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.
But does not declare that it is a "national emergency."
"If government is big enough to give you anything, it's big enough to take everything away from you."
Strongly held wishes and pixie dust won’t deliver a green utopia.
Over the last 100 years, we've seen a 98 percent decrease in climate-related deaths. You can thank fossil fuels.
Without attention to the onerous permitting process for offshore wind and other energy projects, efforts will be plagued by costly delays.
Pipelines work, while solar and wind energy often leave people in the dark.
Neither wind power nor deregulation are responsible for the Texas power disaster.
The vast majority of the shortfall is from failures at fossil fuel-powered plants.
Campaign promises about green energy often obscure real-world constraints.
Yes, and it's only going to get cheaper.
Critics say the state's dependence on solar and wind have made the power grid unreliable and overly expensive.
Something as simple as black paint may reduce avian mortalities from wind power.
It's uncanny how solving climate change just happens to require the progressives' longstanding economic agenda.
The House wanted to scale back an expensive wind energy subsidy, but the Senate prefers to preserve the status quo.
New energy market distortions to fix old energy market distortions
New research debunks a study claiming there's a low-cost way to power America using only wind, solar, and hydropower.
An overcommitment to renewables has already had negative consequences.
To be against fracking is to be against renewable energy.
Reason warned back in 2011 that environmentalists would oppose cheap natural gas
Smart unsubsidized private investments in renewable power resources might increase the energy independence of the United States
Not an investment in the future but in people who know the right politicians
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