The Wind Lobby’s Preemptive Strike on the Perry Grid Study
June 20, 2017In an April 14 memo circulated through the Department of Energy, Secretary Rick Perry ordered a 60-day DOE study of…
Clarifying Paris, Part 1
June 19, 2017The popular narrative in the major media and coming from most public intellectuals is that President Trump’s withdrawal from the…
Roots of the Paris Agreement Part III: Ken Lay and Enron
June 13, 2017“I am writing to urge you to attend the upcoming United Nations Conference on Environment and Development [‘Earth Summit’] scheduled…
Maryland Approves Two Offshore Wind Farms
June 8, 2017Maryland utility regulators have approved two wind farms off the coast of Ocean City—a seaside resort community. If built, these…
Fossil Fuel Consumption Subsidies, While in Decline, Are Still Pervasive in the Developing World
June 5, 2017The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates global fossil fuel consumption subsidies that measure what many developing countries spend to provide…
The Philosophic Roots of the Paris Agreement Part II: The Malthusian People Problem
June 1, 2017Part IÂ of this series related the Paris agreement to the Church of Climate, which takes the natural world as optimal,…
