Forced Electrification: What’s Wrong with Natural Gas?
Virginia's energy economy is the picture of success painted by moderate environmentalists 20 years ago. Almost 60 percent of its electricity is generated from natural gas and another 30 percent…
environmentalism
Forced Electrification: “Net-Zero Carbon”
Activists point out that the transportation and electricity generation sectors together account for 54 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. Turning them carbon-free would dramatically lower total U.S. emissions—hence,…
Forced Electrification: Grassroots Rising
In states, legislatures have enacted or are considering legislation to block local governments from enacting natural gas bans, accounting for one-third of national gas consumption. Many of the bills came…
Rise of the Eco-Right
The Capital Research Center broke the news on liberal mega-donors secretly bankrolling leading members of the eco-Right, which advocate for carbon taxes and other burdensome regulations to address the supposed…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #197: Progressive Ruins
Our guest today is a Time magazine Hero of the Environment who at age 16 raised money for the Rainforest Action Network and at 17 “lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with…
Who Paid for “Climate Chaos” Week?
Last week, a network of radical environmentalist activists staged five days of demonstrations around Washington, DC, to pressure the Biden administration to impose more fossil fuel restrictions and shut down…
Rise of the Eco-Right
The “eco-Right” is CRC's name for “the few dozen lobbying, litigation, and activist nonprofits that identify themselves as free market or broadly right-of-center and yet are attempting to rebrand environmentalism and…
The Future of American Cars Is Not All-Electric
The average electric vehicle consumes 30 kilowatt-hours (kw/h) to travel 100 miles, which Pew Charitable Trusts notes is “the same amount of electricity an average American home uses each day…
Rise of the Eco-Right
The “eco-Right” is the few dozen lobbying, litigation, and activist nonprofits that identify themselves as free market or broadly right-of-center and yet are attempting to rebrand environmentalism and global warming…
The Galileo Code
(December 2009)
If we wanted to add a twentieth-century name to the list of prophets, I would nominate Robert Nisbet (1914-1996), who would not be surprised by recent revelations that an elite…