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Superfund Shakedown: Part 2, A Problem of Attribution
A threshold issue for any Climate Superfund scheme involves attempting to determine the share of global emissions attributable to any given company. As lawsuits to sue energy companies for climate…
by Robert Stilson on November 19, 2024

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Superfund Shakedown: Part 1, On to Plan C
Climate change activists and their political allies are exasperated by humanity’s refusal to abandon its most important energy sources. Those activists have been unsuccessful at securing the federal legislation they…
by Robert Stilson on November 18, 2024

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Oakland, California: High Crime, High Energy Prices, and a Lot of Left-Wing Nonprofits
Oakland, California, is home to a disproportionate share of America’s stridently left-wing nonprofits. Twenty-six of the most strident examples have a combined annual revenue of more than $566 million. That…
by Ken Braun on August 13, 2024

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The California Teachers Association and the $2.5 Billion Crusade Against Nuclear Power
Bad advice drives bad policy, and one of the Golden State’s great destroyers has been the California Teachers Association (CTA). For example, the CTA cosigned an April 2021 joint letter…
by Ken Braun on July 26, 2024

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Film Review of Juice: The Reliability Error
In his latest docuseries energy journalist Robert Bryce examines the dangerous destabilization of the American electricity grid due to flawed policy choices, such as an overreliance on unreliable, weather-dependent wind…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

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Film Review of Juice: The Commodity Error
Electricity is our most important infrastructure, analogous to roads and bridges, but even more critical to survival. To take just one example, water treatment plants and water pumps need power,…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

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Film Review of Juice: The Anti-Human League
The fatal myth driving these errors was that electricity customers wanted to be in a market where the objective was to purchase kilowatts. We didn’t. What we really have always…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

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Film Review of Juice: Victory?
While not unequivocally declaring victory, Juice concluded on a high note, ticking off several important and recent wins for pro-nuclear advocates. Dr. Keefer and his allies recently persuaded the right-leaning…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

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Congress Approves of Nuclear Energy, but There’s Still a $2.3 Billion Annual Opposition
The traditional enemies of America’s largest source of carbon-free electricity show no signs of growing weaker. American nonprofits with a known opposition to nuclear power have a combined annual revenue…
by Ken Braun on July 9, 2024

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Trash Policies of Climate Nonprofits: Opposing Whatever Works
American climate alarmists are impossible to please. Recent news about trash management demonstrates they permit no good deed to go unpunished. In a recent report ProPublica warned that pyrolysis, an…
by Ken Braun on July 8, 2024