Though Piece Currently, the European Union (EU) and its Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) are being embarrassed in public: More politics than energy efficient. In 2005, the EU created a market for greenhouse gas emissions, but the last 13 years has shown the ETS’ many flaws, especially the perennial low trading prices. The following article is testament [...]

Thought Piece Spenser Walrath has written an interesting group of pieces this weekend about the confirmation of climate groups and their “climate conspiracy against energy industry.”  It's harder and harder to find a trustworthy voice these days. Like the evolution of “global warming,” it all depends on who is choosing the words, the  "relevant facts" and [...]

Thought Piece With no regard for Dennis Kucinich’s Magical Misery Tour, the Governors from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia have realized that a collaboration between the three states will make them into a “Global Energy Hub.” While realizing that economic development and sound environmentalism are inseparable, the three Governors have shunned the “leave it in the [...]

Thought Piece "Global warming: Is there anything it can't do,” asked Homer Simpson. While touring southeastern Ohio with a naive writer, Dennis Kucinich looked at the effects of the Rust Belt de-industrialization and saw a fracking nightmare. The following narrative records Kucinich’s interpretation of the bleak terrain. While Youngstown and the northern part of Ohio are [...]