July 2018
DEP Says Shale Gas Air Impacts Limited, But Fractivists Deny Reality
Thought Piece The Executive Director of the Clean Air Council, Joseph Otis Minott, had the nerve to respond to a recently published report by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s public health study on unconventional [...]
Standing Rock Redux
Thought Piece Our nation’s infrastructure needs updating for many environmental reasons, as mentioned in this Wall Street Journal editorial; and yet, many local, state and national voices are opposing natural gas pipelines being built with [...]
Fossil Fuel Industries Outspend Clean Energy Advocates On Climate Lobbying By 10 To 1
Thought Piece CASTLE DALE, UT - OCTOBER 9: Emissions rise out of three large smoke stacks at Pacificorp's 1440 megawatt coal fired power plant on October 9, 2017 in Castle Dale, Utah. It was [...]
IEA warns of ‘worrying trend’ as global investment in renewables falls
Thought Piece IEA’s definition of renewables is hydro, wind and solar, which sounds more like a political slogan. That said, emission reductions come in many forms: My clean energy definition includes provable energy efficiencies, new [...]
Building for the future: West Virginia leads the nation in construction employment
Thought Piece As I have said before, I believe that unconventional oil has become the center of the US economic renaissance, because it has three separate revenue streams: natural gas, tight oil and feed-stone, which [...]
America’s Oil And Gas Boom Is Spreading Through The Country
Thought Piece As we watch the slow, tortuous process of England approving its first hydro-fracking well, it is worth mentioning that “America’s Oil and Gas Boom is Spreading Through the Country.” There is a very [...]