Thought Piece Thanks to Chris Horner and Competitive Enterprise Institute, we can now read the “informal” communications between 18 State Attorneys General (led by Eric Schneiderman), climate change NGO’s (led by Union of Concerned Scientists), universities (led by NYU) and wealthy individuals (led by Michael Bloomberg). The level of extra legal activities between these groups in [...]
Thought Piece It’s official. A Pennsylvania environmental group is copying an initiative spawned in Boulder, CO, using a discredited study to advance their cause. Environmentalism has become a secular religion, with no regard for facts or the loss of credibility while they proselytize. Thanks to Pennsylvania’s best reporter, Jim Willis and the Marcellus Drilling News. How [...]
Thought Piece Whenever the "alarmist media" run stories, Op-Eds on climate changes, and Letters to the Editor, they exaggerate the headline and narrative. They rarely if ever include a counter-argument, almost never know any Information that contradicts their alarmism, or ever refers to any published study that supports a scintilla of environmental skepticism. Whatever happened to [...]
Thought Piece California’s new solar mandate will cost much more than anyone was told, writes Steven Sexton. Essentially, the public sector, including well-funded politically active environmental groups, have decided that renewable energy, electric cars, and large scale storage batteries are the best investments for the future of California energy, economic development and environmentalism. Unfortunately, this Wall [...]
Thought Piece The silence emanating from the Coalition for the Delaware River Basin (CDRB) after this current train wreck is deafening. This sound of silence is especially interesting as the CDRB has been worried about pipelines polluting the Delaware River Basin in all their DRBC filings arguing against shale oil development and natural gas pipelines in [...]
Thought Piece California Governor Jerry Brown continues to declare that all of this year’s forest fires were caused by climate change, while the Wall Street Journal continues to pour cold water on that argument (below). In fact, the WSJ points out that Sacramento and state politics have spent 10 times more on electric vehicles than on [...]
Thought Piece The following side by side comparisons between New York’s Southern Tier and Pennsylvania Northern Tier demonstrates that unconventional oil/hydraulic fracturing has become the center of a budding US economic renaissance, because it has several separate economic benefits: natural gas, tight oil and feed-stone, all of which cut the cost of production for all goods [...]
Thought Piece Clean energy is solar, energy efficiencies, wind, hydro, new NG power plants, LNG, new modern nuclear, updated cleaner power plants with scrubbers, new pipelines, new utility infrastructure, electricity efficiencies of the Internet of Things and all other measurable emission reduction strategies.The above examples of “Clean Energy” are several of the reasons why the US [...]
Thought Piece A humble scientist is a wise scientist. A good regulator is well-informed, light-handed and market-oriented. Let's admit that there are many, many people in the world who haven't accepted the fact that the planet is comprised of humans who will always face flawed politics, an uncertain future, with imperfect measurements and knowledge. "Religions get [...]
Thought Piece I would argue that some of the current solutions (like coal capture and storage, utility-grade battery storage, electric cars and long-distance batteries, etc.) to emission reductions and global economic development are too costly and simplistic, especially if they ignore helping developing countries modernize their sanitation, health care, interior air quality, reliable electricity/grid, and 21st [...]
