Wind and solar dependency on fossil fuels is a fact we cannot ignore

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Newly inaugurated President Joe Biden is moving forward with his Clean Energy Agenda.  At the heart of the proposed energy transition plans is the assumption that wind and solar offer cleaner and greener energy than fossil fuels, thus saving the world from a potential climate disaster. Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, tweeted on January 20, 2021, […]

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Video: Climate and Energy Policy Under the Democratic Trifecta

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Now that the Democratic Party controls the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, America is in for major changes in climate and energy policy. What has President Biden done already? What’s still in store? What are the hurdles he and his colleagues in the Senate and House face? Find out, and join

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Most Didn’t Know It, But Those Who Voted for Biden Voted for Electric Vehicles

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The Big Switch will massively change America The election of the Biden-Harris ticket will, we are told, hasten the death of the internal combustion engine in the United States. Once the sale of new gasoline engine vehicles is banned, the only question remaining is how long before driving them is also outlawed? Well, incoming Vice

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Nuking the Anti-Nuke Crowd: Experts agree the tide has turned in nuclear’s favor

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How has the Trump Administration fared in meeting the multiple challenges that have slowed the growth of nuclear energy in the U.S. to a near-halt?  And what are the prospects for nuclear energy in a Biden-Harris Administration? It is now seventy-five years since the U.S. ended the war against Japan by dropping nuclear bombs on

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Whitehouse’s Call For A Climate Inquisition Undermines Scientific Research

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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is hostile to open debate over climate science and policy. Sadly, he’s far from being the only one. Many progressive Democrats, and their lapdogs in the mainstream media, have long been calling for a climate inquisition: prosecution, fines, imprisonment, and reeducation camps for economists, scientists, and political analysts whose research has

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Must We Always Have Paris? How Trump Can Spoil Biden’s Climate Dream

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On September 3, 2016, then-President Barack Obama engaged the United States in the Paris climate agreement. He called it the “most ambitious climate change agreement in history.” That means Obama considered it more ambitious than the Framework Convention on Climate Change—a treaty the Senate approved October 7, 1992. It means he considered it more ambitious

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Government Transparency Should Not be Controversial

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Ballot harvesting, behind-the-curtains ballot counting and other hijinks have made transparency a critical issue this election year. Meanwhile, as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency celebrates its fiftieth birthday, political battles continue to rage over the extent of public, executive and congressional oversight, and access to research files, original data and other information used by the

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A Plea for Checks

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By checks I don’t mean your (outdoor) dining bills or paper orders for the payment of money, I mean mechanisms for reducing the power of government, as in the phrase “checks and balances.” Some checks, like the presidential veto, are as notorious as a certain deceased rapper and SCOTUS justice. While always assailed by critics,

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