by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel In 2019 the City Manager of Scottsbluff, Nebraska proudly cut the ribbon on a huge, multimillion-dollar, 5.2 megawatt solar farm of over 14,000 photovoltaic panels, saying, “This project will help the city achieve its goal to reduce our carbon footprint and [...]
On March 17, 2023, Steve Milloy, E&E Legal's Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder, appeared on the Federalist Radio Hour. Following are the show notes, which was titled, Green Fantasies Are Putting Lobster Fishermen Out Of Business: On this episode of “The Federalist Radio Hour,” Steve Milloy, board member and senior policy fellow at the Energy [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Apparently, people in rural Ohio are not overly fond of renewable energy. In fact, various county commissioners there voted down 42 wind energy and 43 solar energy projects in 2022. Sixteen of the proposed wind farms were in Logan County. Interestingly, [...]
by Sarah Weaver The Daily Caller Solar panels in Britain stopped working Tuesday as temperatures in the country topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The solar panels generated only 2.8 gigawatts of energy, compared to the 3.3 gigawatts typically expected at this time of year, The Telegraph reported. “We never see peak output in mid summer,” University [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel An Ellsworth, Maine, newspaper columnist lamented voters’ defeat of a transmission line to bring renewable energy. “Talk about mixed messages. We want renewable energy but not here, not now, not this kind. We have to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, [...]
E&E Legal's Fact Sheets are aimed and countering the deception and spin spewing forth from the Biden Administration and its allies regarding their economy-killing energy policies. China's influence over all aspects of our government, and in particular our energy policy, is a threat to the very existence of our country. Click here for a pdf [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel When we burn coal to generate electricity, we are said to be contributing to the long-term destruction of the Earth’s capacity to support life. So thousands of communities and utilities have switched to natural gas, only to be told that fracking [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe How is this going to work as Gov. Newsom pushes California to an all-electricity grid? PG&E’s alert says: “A Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) occurs in response to severe weather to help prevent a wildfire. A severe [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Reservoirs were full to the top in 2019, with enough water to supply to all users for at least five years of drought, but no longer The long time political dispute between California farmers and state and [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe As rolling blackouts become a way of life in California, how will EVs charge? With California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandated phase-out of gas-powered automobiles, we learn that one in five plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) owners switched back [...]
