EPA’s New Proposed Regulations to Restrict Emissions from Existing Fossil...
Today is the day when EPA unveils its regulations intended to solve a minor or more likely non-existent problem by placing restrictive government regulations intended to bias the electric supply...
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New Book Available April 28
Stairway Press expects to publish my new book entitled Environmentalism Gone Mad: How a Sierra Club Activist and Senior EPA Analyst Discovered a Radical Green Energy Fantasy on April 28. A description...
View ArticleWhy Climate Alarmists Want Governments to Impose Limits to Growth Where None...
There has long been a difference of opinion between resource optimists and pessimists. Resource optimists believe that the primary constraints on resource availability are the ingenuity of humans in...
View ArticleNew Analysis Suggests Obama’s Power Plant Regulations Will Almost Quadruple...
Updated August 12, 2015 to add new sources On August 3, President Obama announced EPA’s final “Clean Power Plan” (CPP) regulations (summarized by the Administration here). The regulations are even more...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Environmentalists Ignore Both Science and Economics
In recent years many environmental organizations have united in support of an effort to reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere with the objective of reducing atmospheric CO2 levels. Their efforts...
View ArticleThe Dramatic Transformation of the Oil and Natural Gas Markets and Its...
As explained in some detail in my book, Environmentalism Gone Mad, from an economic viewpoint there is no fixed limit on the quantity of natural resources on Earth which will sooner or later inevitably...
View ArticleModern Civilization Has a Bright Future After All
Thomas Malthus has had an enduring influence on Western thinking even though the human condition has changed greatly since his time. Many environmentalists, for example, believe that modern...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Government Plays Market Maker
Increased energy use to assist humans in carrying out their daily tasks is perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic of developed countries. Energy is used in various forms, but one of the most...
View ArticleGovernment Promotion of “Green” Energy Has Now Become Even More Hopeless
Government intervention in the market should be the exception rather than the norm. Before government intervenes in any market there needs to be a clear justification based on whether there is a real...
View ArticleScientifically Unsupported Climate Fears Spread to Fracking
I have previously pointed out that Hillary Clinton, the leading US Democratic Party Presidential candidate, has positioned herself to the left of President Obama on climate. A few weeks ago she told an...
View ArticleFuture of “Green Energy” Likely to Be Determined Largely by 2016 Election
As discussed in my book, Environmentalism Gone Mad, “green energy” (basically wind and solar) and its supposed major selling point (“controlling” climate change) has never made much economic or...
View ArticleIs It Worth Tripling US Electricity Rates as a Symbolic Gesture?
On July 9, 2015 EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy claimed that the purpose of EPA’s “Clean Power Plan” to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plant emissions, was “in showing strong domestic...
View ArticleHow Britain and Germany Have Led the Way to Energy Bankruptcy
There are many shortcomings in the climate warmist narrative, as explained in much more detail in my book, Environmentalism Gone Mad. It is actually hard to paper over all of the problems, but the...
View ArticleGovernment CO2 Emissions Regulations: There Is a Much Better Approach in the US
As explained in much more detail in my book, Environmentalism Gone Mad, one of the many curious characteristics of the US Climate-Industrial Complex (or CIC, as defined in my book) is that it is doing...
View ArticleThe Major Problems with the Climate Alarmist Narrative
Over the last seven years I have outlined a number of serious problems with the warmist/climate alarmist narrative, including the following: (1) The alleged “problem” that the alarmists/warmists are...
View ArticleClinton’s “Misstatement” on Coal
It is becoming ever clearer that the 2016 Presidential election will determine the outcome of the US climate debate for at least the next four years rather than any scientific discussion. And except...
View ArticleEPA Is At It Again
On May 12 the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final methane emissions regulation for new or modified oil and gas facilities. It requires that specified technology be used to reduce...
View ArticleIt is Increasingly Clear that the Presidential Election Will Determine the...
As I reported last week the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump, has clearly laid out a policy position opposed to the Obama Administration’s climate/energy policy. This contrasts...
View ArticleGovernment Interventions in Markets Are Often Not Justified and Yield Dismal...
When governments usurp the roles that are most efficiently played by markets by interfering in them, the results are almost uniformly disastrous. There are cases, usually serious, proven pollution...
View ArticleHow a Court Threw Out a Major Obama Environmental Regulation and EPA Refused...
One of perhaps the two major climate-related events this week was a court decision in Wyoming overturning a Department of the Interior regulation setting stricter standards for fracking on Federal...
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