by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe Environmentalists are causing actual global warming with wildfires For decades, traditional forest management was scientific and successful, until ideological, preservationist zealots wormed their way into government and began the 40-year overhaul of sound federal forest management through abuse of the Endangered Species Act and the no-use [...]
Tom Tanton, E&E Legal's Director of Science and Technology Assessment As Appearing on IER's Podcast E&E Legal's Tom Tanton, a California resident, joins the Institute for Energy Research's (IER's) podcast to discuss CA’s recent rolling blackouts and what went wrong with the state’s energy policies to get here. Listen here.
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe Tone-deaf lawmakers ignore already failing electricity grid With wildfires burning 1.3 million acres throughout the state, and rolling power blackouts from the weak electrical grid, the California State Senate Appropriations Committee voted to pass Assembly Bill 326 to make driving an Electric Vehicle “more accessible for [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe California’s bet on renewables and shunning of natural gas and nuclear power, is directly responsible for the state’s blackouts and high electricity prices’ California is rich in natural resources which once powered the state: natural gas deposits in the Monterey Shale formation; geothermal energy, abundant rivers [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe Gov. Newsom warns: Be prepared for more power outages as heatwave continues At Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press conference Monday, he discussed the state’s heatwave, record temperatures throughout the state, and the rolling blackouts millions have to deal with over the very hot weekend. The California Independent [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe The average 2020 annual residential electricity bill was 25.9% higher than in 2010 The Center for Jobs and the Economy at the California Business Roundtable reports that California gas and energy prices continued to rise higher in July than nearly all other states. “These outcomes mean [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Stephen Sturgeon, a Utah State University historian, wrote a legislative biography of Western Slope congressman Wayne Aspinall, called “The Politics of Western Water.” He laments that Colorado controls less than half of its water, because of legal requirements. “Colorado has lost [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe ‘How dare you talk about Enviro racism when your policies favor your coastal elitists friends’ California Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) went off on California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols Monday night after she posted an unbelievably self-serving and stupid Tweet: “‘I can’t breathe’ speaks [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe South Lake Tahoe Mayor threatening no Memorial Day, no July 4th fireworks, and maybe no Labor Day Despite that El Dorado County has reopened, the Mayor of South Lake Tahoe is telling tourists to stay away or pay a $1,000 fine. The Tahoe Basin draws millions [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe Fishing enthusiasts outraged at government overreach during COVID-19 crisis This week, California Globe reported that Charles Bonham, director of the Department of Fish and Wildlife was proposing to postpone the sportfishing season through May in rural areas, and credited the Sacramento Bee with first reporting the story. The government’s bureaucratic [...]
