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.
It's good to hear a candidate actually talk about our spending problem. But his campaign promises would exacerbate it.
Yes, cheap imports hurt some American companies. But protectionist trade policy harms many more Americans than it helps.
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.
In exchange for $1 billion, the state expected 5,000 jobs and 1,000 installations a week. Instead, it reported 1,700 jobs, most of them Tesla data analysts, and 21 installations per week.
Land-hungry biomass, wind, and solar power are set to occupy an area equivalent of the size of the European Union by 2050.
The House passed a resolution that will reimpose tariffs on solar panels from China, while the EPA sits on applications for carbon capture technology that may soon be mandatory.
"When we look at solar and wind around the world, it always correlates to rising prices and declining reliability."
The rich are getting richer under the Inflation Reduction Act.
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.
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
Blaming oil companies and Vladimir Putin for our current energy woes is dishonest and unhelpful.
Strongly held wishes and pixie dust won’t deliver a green utopia.
Biden should stop layering new, contradictory orders into the market and simply get government out of the way.
Tariffs requested by an "artisanal solar boutique" based in San Jose might jeopardize 45,000 jobs and halve America's future solar panel deployments.
Over the last 100 years, we've seen a 98 percent decrease in climate-related deaths. You can thank fossil fuels.
Nothing new under the sun as Biden decides to extend Trump's solar panel tariffs for four more years.
Instead of taking his own actions to undo an unlawful order from the former chief executive, President Joe Biden had the government's attorneys argue in favor of even greater trade powers for the White House.
What good is protectionism that isn't protecting anything?
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.
It's uncanny how solving climate change just happens to require the progressives' longstanding economic agenda.
Incentive programs for electric cars and solar panels mostly benefit those who can afford those things, while regulations that drive up the cost of energy hurt those who can't afford much to begin with.
In his new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, Shellenberger argues that science doesn't support doomsayers' claims.
The solar industry has benefited from "temporary" tax credits for decades. These might finally be allowed to lapse.
There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solar investment tax credit.
Who could have seen that coming? Well, lots of people did—but the U.S. International Trade Commission and President Trump didn't listen.
The state's top-down approach to energy issues will only raise rates on consumers.
But they swear the new regulations will actually save homeowners money.
When anyone says, "I'm for free trade, but it must be fair trade," they are really saying: "I am not for free trade."
Will the economic and social benefits of the solar panel tariffs outweigh their costs? Not likely.
The idea is sadly gaining steam.
New energy market distortions to fix old energy market distortions
A bankrupt Chinese-owned taxpayer-subsidized company that's asking for protection against Chinese imports.
There are no downsides, say proponents.
New research debunks a study claiming there's a low-cost way to power America using only wind, solar, and hydropower.
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