In a last-gasp flurry of activity, the 119th House of Representatives in December moved forward a bevy of bills aimed at shortening the time frame and the costs required for federal permits for infrastructure projects, many of which are deemed vital to national security. That’s the good news. The bad news is that these bills
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At COP30, the United Nations Climate Conference, Governor Gavin Newsom praised California’s use of renewable energy and attacked the energy policies of the Trump administration. But from high prices to failing renewable systems, California has an energy affordability crisis. In fact, it is and affordability disaster. Last week at COP30 in Brazil, California Governor Gavin
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History will likely remember 2025 as the year energy corporatists finally stopped pretending there is a climate crisis. For a decade, a bizarre theater of the absurd played out as titans of the oil and gas industry apologized for their core business while pledging allegiance to a “green transition” that existed mostly in the imaginations
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Australia’s green energy experiment has left millions of its citizens with a shaky power grid, serving as a case study on how blind allegiance to climate dogma leads to economic and social turmoil. The once sacred “net zero” pledge has been exposed as a curse producing public anger, stark warnings from industry and a rethinking
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In a companion explainer, “Understanding ‘the Grid’ that Powers Delaware,” I describe how the electric grid operates as a real-time, just-in-time system in which electricity must be produced and consumed almost instantaneously. That structure frames the challenges now confronting Delaware as electricity demand rises and state generation capacity continues to decline. PJM Interconnection, the regional
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For billions of people in the polluted and less-developed parts of the world, a new beginning may signify a day when they wake up and simply smell clean air; a morning when the commute to work does not involve dodging piles of garbage littered on the roads, and the water drawn for the family comes
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According to noted stock trader Ross Givens, many investors are pouring money into nuclear energy stocks that may never deliver. Innovative generation IV and V reactor designs remain unapproved by a slow-moving federal government. Yet investors remain hopeful that this bottleneck will soon be removed. In the early years of America’s nuclear power industry,
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Watch out, world — here comes the God-spin on climate change inspired by the UN’s 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30). COP30 wrapped up last month with an offering of the usual suspects: socialist solutions for acolytes to advocate. According to UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, during the “high-level closing event at COP30 in Belém, Brazil,
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Wars rage across the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Yet, these violent conflicts, as horrific as they are, only mirror the silent wars raging within many of our own hearts — wars of despair, doubt, and desperation. Deep within, I carry a deep sorrow for the struggling people of Africa and Asia who remain trapped
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An article by Nadir Jeevanjee, a Research Physical Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), recently published in The Conversationand reprinted by Space.Com, suggests that climate models are being given a bad rap. It cites a recent Department of Energy report as using the complexity of climate models as the primary reason why these models cannot be trusted. The
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