“Proposed financial bailouts for nuclear power plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania are raising questions as to whether those facilities can compete on their own against coal and natural gas. Others, though, laid blame on subsidies and mandates for renewables like wind and solar, saying governments should never have picked energy winners and losers in the first place. ‘Subsidies of any kind aren’t good,’ said Dan Kish, a senior fellow at the Institute for Energy Research. ‘But it’s a little hypocritical for people to support or ignore subsidies for politically protected classes of energy development and then argue that other forms of energy that don’t have the same political protections should be allowed to go away.’”
-JESSICA R. TOWHEY, INSIDE SOURCES
Donald Trump says he won’t grant shipping waivers that could send more fuel to Puerto Rico
