California Governor Newsom’s Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing
May 13, 2021California Governor Gavin Newsom recently ordered state agencies to stop issuing new fracking permits by 2024 and to look for…
Biden’s Dubious Infrastructure Jobs Claim
May 3, 2021The Biden administration deceptively claims the infrastructure and spending plan, called the American Jobs Act would create 19 million jobs…
Biden’s Expensive Offshore Wind Plan
April 29, 2021President Biden’s plan to reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions in the generating sector includes the installation of 30,000 megawatts…
New York Closes the Last Reactor at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant
April 28, 2021Indian Point’s last nuclear reactor will be shuttered on April 30, and its power will be largely replaced by natural…
China and India Count on Coal
April 27, 2021In 2019, China, the world largest emitter of carbon dioxide, and India, the world’s third largest emitter of carbon dioxide,…
Decarbonization and California’s 2020 Rolling Blackouts
April 20, 2021“… the retirement of baseload and dispatchable generation has outpaced replacement capacity with adequate characteristics needed to maintain system reliability….…
