Half a century ago, raw emotion drove an anti-nuclear energy campaign that still stifles clean energy development in the U.S. Today, that same fear-driven playbook is being deployed in a campaign to shut down data centers. Between 1970 and 1990, America built 95 nuclear power plants that still supply nearly a fifth of the nation’s
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Each month, Pennsylvania’s 6 million electricity customers—all facing rising bills—are charged for services of questionable value without knowing how much they are paying and, for most, that the charge even exists. Enacted by the legislature in 2004, Pennsylvania’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act (AEPS) requires that 18 percent of an electricity seller’s offering consists of energy
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The following article was adapted from one originally published at AmericaOutLoud.news. It is a guest article by Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka. Social media, smartphones, computers, and the many electronic devices that did not exist a century ago are being called “addictive.” A similar question is now being asked about the products made from crude
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President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that his administration had returned the Endangered Species Act (ESA) “to how it was intended to be,” invoking the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s reading of the statute and initiating the crocodile tears of anti-development activists. The administration’s view is that regulators committed to regulatory expansion had
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Foundry School is yet another good idea coming to fruition as part of the Trump Administration’s mission to reindustrialize America in the wake of the COVID pandemic. This unique pilot, aided by eight major universities and manufacturing leaders from several nations, is the product of a collaborative effort to train a workforce capable of
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Drive from Buffalo into Genesee County and you will pass fields that have grown corn and soybeans for generations. Soon, thousands of those acres will be covered by steel and glass. New York state is forcing industrial-scale solar plants onto rural communities that never asked for them, and the people who live there are discovering
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The modern debate over food has produced a strange moral arithmetic. A vocal segment of today’s environmental movement insists that killing a calf or drinking a glass of milk is an act of cruelty, yet it defends the legal right to end a human life in the womb. This is not a minor inconsistency. This
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[We reprint this article because its lessons are equally applicable to how Americans have responded to self-proclaimed experts about climate change over the last two decades and more.—ECB] The following is a guest article by Barry Brownstein. In a 2021 AIER essay, “Liberating Yourself from Faucism,” I wrote: “The issue isn’t Anthony Fauci’s failings. The
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Swedish activist Greta Thunberg earned her moniker Doom Pixie because of her diminutive height and shrill accusations of human and planetary doom allegedly due to fossil-fuel-fueled climate change. Her most famous tirade was directed at world leaders for allegedly doing too little to stop it. “How dare you?” she fiercely scowled at United Nations Secretary-General
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For campaigners of the net zero agenda, “climate action” must come first, even if it means throttling the energy lifelines for billions of the poor. The data say something very different. A sweeping analysis by Kevin Dayaratna and Kat Miller, “Energy Abundance and Human Flourishing: A Data‑Driven Global Analysis,” shows what history has already taught
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