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By tfisher “It is difficult to overestimate Jon [Wellinghoff]‘s impact on the electricity industry in recent years — or for that matter in the years to come.” -Dan Delurey, Executive Director of the Association for Demand Response and Smart Grid As the... Read More

By llinowes Windaction.org’s periodic newsletter keeps readers updated on the latest news in the wind energy industry! facts, analysis, exposure of wind energy’s real impacts Issue: 2013-06-14 News Native Americans decry eagle deaths tied to wind farms June 14... Read More

By flawrence [Ed. note: North Dakota registered $25.3 billion in taxable economic activity 2012, a 29 percent increase from 2011. The major reason for this economic boom is described below.] Any discussion of the revolution in U.S. upstream technology and its impact on the U.S.... Read More

By grehmke “How much oil seeps out from the ocean floor — and into the environment — around the Santa Barbara area? SOS California identifies offshore Santa Barbara as having “the second largest marine oil seeps in the world.” Centered around an area... Read More

By rbradley “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.” - Wendell Phillips (1852) Government wealth transfers from the many to the few is called the concentrated benefits, diffuse costs problem. Certain companies and... Read More

By aepstein “What we ask for is a more rigorous education on energy and environmental issues. Today’s students do not learn even basic facts about the energy sources that make our civilization possible. But they are encouraged to take strong policy positions on the basis of... Read More

By kbrown “As long as the EPA continues to rely on assumptions about industry activity that are not, in fact, based on actual industry activity, their estimates for methane emissions will remain wrong. The fact that those assumptions result in inflated emissions estimates... Read More

By rbradley “It’s not unlawful to run an ad hominem presidency. It’s merely shameful. The great rhetorical specialty of this president has been his unrelenting attribution of bad faith to those who disagree with him. He acts on principle; they from the basest of... Read More

By sgorham Climatism, the belief that man-made greenhouse gases are destroying Earth’s climate, is on the wane. Once riding high, the ideology of man-made climate change is losing its influence in governments across the world. Climategate, the release of e-mails from the... Read More

By llinowes “Feel-good politics and a desperate wind industry are driving Massachusetts and Connecticut policies, but at some point energy policies have to be grounded in reality. Opposition to wind energy in the northern New England states has settled in, and the residents... Read More