Energy

California’s ZEV mandate means cash-strapped consumers in heartland America will be paying more to buy a conventional car.

A team of scientists analyzed the methane impacts of more than 100 hydro power dams in the Mekong delta and found the vast majority have a similar greenhouse gas footprint to wind and solar power.

Canada is experiencing a cold spell — not just with respect to the weather.
The country is set to fall into tough economic times with its business climate going into deep freeze.

They’re toying with raising the federal gas tax to help pay for the President’s infrastructure plan.

Heartland Institute Senior Fellow (and CFACT advisor) H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., reviews the achievements of President Trump’s energy and environmental policies at the end of his first year in office, a list he says indicates “a tremendous start” — as evidenced by the stock market, job growth, unemployment decline, business investment, and consumer confidence — all helping to “make America great again.”

Even committed Green Disciples with a huge Tesla battery in their garage soon found that their battery was flat and that there was no solar energy to recharge it.

Demand for fossil fuels is growing worldwide, and depriving pension funds of companies capable of delivering that energy to global markets is playing Russian roulette with New York’s pensioners.

Legally correct interpretation: “The CPP exceeds EPA’s statutory authority and must be repealed.” Read CFACT’s full regulatory submission now.

An unhappy WashPo is cause for encouragement.

Environmental lawyers were slapped with court sanctions Friday for using a sketchy, unfounded legal theory to ban hydraulic fracking in a small community in Pennsylvania.

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen pulls no punches, calling today’s ethanol and biofuels mandates and subsidies a fascistic scheme that harms both the economy and the environment and does nothing to conserve domestic energy while doing a lot to stifle economic growth. He urges the swift repeal of ethanol and biofuels mandates.

Determined to disrupt the interstate transport of oil and natural gas throughout the United States, a network of environmental activists is openly threatening to resort to sabotage to achieve their ends.

Things still seem to be going downhill for the EU, or at least for the left-wing elements of it.

U.S. fishermen are pushing back against plans to construct offshore wind farms along the East Coast, claiming the large clusters of turbines affect navigation, regulation and fish behavior,

Climate change alarmism is driven by computer modeling and the IPCC. The IPCC modeling is a collective activity, led by the US Department of Energy. The Trump Administration has not touched this DOE scare factory, but should rein it in.

The shale energy revolution if bringing true energy security to America, yet small businesses have almost been driven out of business by regulations from the federal EPA and PA State Department of Environmental Protection.

The rich West wants to stop using coal while the poor East depends on it. Germany is caught in the middle. The future of the EU may turn on this issue, because East-West tensions are already great.

The White House’s security strategy is a rejection of former President Barack Obama’s administration, that prioritized fighting man-made global warming. Trump’s strategy no longer lists global warming as a nation security concern.

A new report on the effects of Marcellus shale fracking found that communities in Pennsylvania suffered no negative health impacts and enjoyed a boost to the local economy.

A radical group is boasting on the Internet that it will go beyond “legal means” to halt construction of two natural-gas pipelines.