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Bloomberg Philanthropies Tracks “Petrochemical Incidents”: Basic Physics
As a matter of basic physics, developing energy often means playing with fire—sometimes literally. Every important technology has a dark side. People have been dying in traffic accidents that don’t…
by Ken Braun on April 29, 2025

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Tracks “Petrochemical Incidents”: Accidents Jan.–June 2024
On Colorado-Nebraska border on January 11, a wind turbine either caught fire and fell over or fell over and caught fire. This was the first, but far from the last,…
by Ken Braun on April 29, 2025

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Tracks “Petrochemical Incidents”: Accidents July–Dec. 2024
“Your wind turbine’s on fire again,” said a neighbor, making a 5 am call to farmer Sally Freeman. It was the third time in 18 months that one of her…
by Ken Braun on April 29, 2025

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Save the Earthlings from Earth Day
In the spring of 1970, the editors of Ramparts, a now-defunct New Left publication, predicted that the inaugural Earth Day would become “the first step in a con game that…
by Ken Braun on April 22, 2025

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Biden Administration Approved $485 Million for Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits
During the last half of the Biden administration, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm began talking up the virtues of reliable, safe, and carbon-free nuclear energy. In August 2024, she called for…
by Ken Braun on April 10, 2025

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Bailing Out Greenpeace: Lefty Donors Who Could Pay Up for Dakota Access Damages
Last month a North Dakota jury awarded $667 million in combined damages to Energy Transfer against Greenpeace International, the U.S.-based Greenpeace Fund, and it’s direct-action affiliate, Greenpeace USA. The award…
by Ken Braun on April 8, 2025

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Foreign-Funded Plastic Lawfare
A foreign charity funded by an Australian billionaire has paid an American law firm to represent four tax-exempt environmental activist groups in a lawsuit against a ExxonMobil to a special…
by Robert Stilson on March 31, 2025

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Beyond Plastics: The Charity Opposed to Everything
Because of PVC, Americans are getting healthy, lead-free drinking water much sooner than they otherwise might. But there’s an anti-plastics movement that isn’t happy. Beyond Plastics is a standout in…
by Ken Braun on February 13, 2025

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Low-Quality Energy for the LIDACs and $21.8 Billion in Waste from the EPA
Trimming the fat from federal spending, regulations (and maybe even babble-speak acronyms) is the work of President-elect Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It’ll be a tough job…
by Ken Braun on January 16, 2025

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The Southern Environmental Law Center and Its Misanthropic Donor
One lesser-known environmentalist group bringing in nearly as much revenue as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club is the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), a left-of-center environmentalist 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in…
by Sebastian Tuininga, Sebastian Tuininga on January 13, 2025