Nuclear Energy Projects Moving Forward Quickly Now

Less than two weeks after President Trump signed a series of executive orders intended to “usher in a nuclear energy renaissance” in the United States, major nuclear energy projects have suddenly moved forward. The bureaucracies at the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, long known for stalling nuclear projects, seem to have undergone […]

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Big, Beautiful Coal

As a boy growing up beside India’s railway lines, I found magic in the metallic thunder of passing trains. Now and then, freight cars piled high with black coal would roll by. That same evening, our lights would flicker out.  There, I’d sit still in the hush of a powerless night, staring into the warm

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Does CO2 Warm the Earth and Cause More Extreme Weather, or Not?

The Version 6.1 global area-averaged temperature trend (January 1979 through January 2025)remains at +0.15 deg/ C/decade (+0.22 C/decade over land, +0.13 C/decade over oceans). Source: Dr. Roy Spencer So, does carbon dioxide warm the Earth, or doesn’t it? Are extreme weather events getting more frequent and severe, or aren’t they? Why is there so much

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Los Angeles Burns and Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass Fiddle

A half century of disastrous wildfires and flawed land-management policies bring disaster home to Angelenos. Seems only yesterday, doesn’t it, the massive Camp fire (2018) killed 80 Californians and laid waste to some 150,000 acres of northern California. Closer to LA, the 2017 Woolsey fire burned over much of the same areas back in 2017, another big

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Assigning Responsibility for the Tragic Los Angeles Fires

First understand Southern California is naturally dry. Its Mediterranean climate means it rarely rains in the summer and has a limited winter rainy season. Three deserts in the region attest to its dry climate.  As a result, the vegetation around Los Angeles primarily consists of one-hour fuels that can dry in as little as 60

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So Much for an ‘Orderly Transition’ — Biden Bans Oil, Gas Drilling

So what happened to that goodwill promise President Joe Biden made in the White House Rose Garden on Nov. 7 to do everything he can to support an orderly transition to the upcoming Trump administration? Calling on people to bring down the temperature after the heat of the presidential campaign, he said, “We accept the choice

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The Senate should free US from the Paris Climate Agreement

The following is a guest article by Bonner Cohen. President-elect Trump’s pledge to renew his quest for American global energy dominance promises to shake up the geopolitical landscape while revitalizing the U.S. economy. There are many pathways leading to this goal, including tossing Biden-era regulations specifically designed to restrict the nation’s production of fossil fuels,

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