VIDEO: Three NOT so favorite Enemies of Energy
Ken Braun breaks down three major nonprofit organizations influencing U.S. energy policy and opposing traditional energy production, including oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear power.
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Yosemite’s conservationists: an Earth Day message
Advocates for both conservation and energy abundance could and should once again become—quite literally— natural allies.
The fight over national park fees exposed the Sierra Club as fake conservationists
The Property and Environment Research Center is a conservation NGO. The far richer Sierra Club is an anti-energy NGO that pretends to care about conservation…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #301: The Politics of the Power Grid (with Robert Bryce)
If you’re like me, electricity is something that just comes out of the wall and turns on the lights. If you’re like our guest, energy policy expert and creator of…
Household Names Helping Ban Gas Stoves: Patient Zero
the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is one of the nation’s most radical anti-energy, left-wing nonprofits. Yet General Motors, Fed Ex, United Airlines, Amazon, Bank of America, and dozens of billionaires,…
Household Names Helping Ban Gas Stoves: War on Energy
Of the main hydrocarbon energy sources that we use—coal, natural gas, and oil—natural gas is by far the lowest emitter of carbon dioxide. If cutting carbon emissions were RMI’s highest…
Household Names Helping Ban Gas Stoves: Personal Awards and Foundation Rewards
In 2016, Lovins was awarded the German Order of Merit, the German government’s highest honor, because of his influence on Germany’s energy policy. Another ironic decoration came in 1993, when…
Household Names Helping Ban Gas Stoves: Humanity Hating Benefactor
The radical agenda of one RMI donor towers above the others. Since 2005 the Rocky Mountain Institute has received at least $76.9 million from the Foundation for the Carolinas (FFTC),…
Household Names Helping Ban Gas Stoves: Giving Away the Rope
Environmental journalist Michael Shellenberger reported that big oil and gas firms have never been the natural enemy of radical climate groups such as RMI. The hypocritical hostility to zero-carbon nuclear…
Blame Environmentalists for High Gas Prices—and Doing Russia’s Bidding
With the war in Ukraine, Americans are rediscovering the value of cheap and abundant electricity and why past generations craved independence from hostile oil exporters. Not long ago, people knew…