by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel I just attended a reception with Colorado oil and gas employees, and the conversation was eye-opening. I expected to hear about how difficult life in America would be without fossil fuels. There was some of that, but not in the way [...]
by Michael Curzon The European Conservative It’s impossible to predict UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s next move on the environment, so often does he seemingly flip his position on decarbonisation. But the latest turn, which will see Britain build new gas power stations, is more important than most in that it serves as a tacit [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As Appearing in the California Globe California’s transition from traditional generation to renewable energy will cost in excess of $3 trillion The U.S. National Academy of Engineering has named construction of the vast U.S. electric power grid the 20th century’s most important achievement. From [...]
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 [...]
