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…
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Best of CRC Media Hits for November 2022
In December 2021, we began to assess the tax filings related to “Zuck bucks”—Mark Zuckerberg’s gift to the 2020 election to help tilt the vote toward Biden—and received a great…
Virginia Withdraws from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
One of Among Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) first acts in office was to withdraw the Old Dominion from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a major global warming compact…
Billion-Dollar Network Is Playing Politics in America’s Energy Sector, Driving up Costs: Ken Braun
Environmental groups and advocates are spending billions of dollars every year playing politics with America’s energy sector while simultaneously driving up energy costs for Americans, according to Ken Braun, the senior investigative researcher at the Capital…
The Clueless Climate Hypocrisy of the League of Women Voters
Two Saturdays ago the League of Women Voters of Richfield, Minnesota, promoted voodoo science to its community. A critical fact missing from this story was the league's opposition to nuclear…
Al Gore Offers Africa Electricity by the Spoonful
The Africa branch of Climate Reality Project issued a report in November 2016 condemning nuclear energy as “bad for the environment,” suggesting instead that the often desperately poor people of…
America’s Frozen Future Under the Green New Deal
Germany, the land of coal, and oil-rich Texas are in the process of exchanging their coal power plants—powered by a abundant, scalable, and relatively cheap resource—for expensive and unreliable renewables…
Antidote for “Apocalyptic Environmentalists”: Apocalypse Never
Sometime during the last eight years Oliver Stone seems to have lost his faith in angry, self-aware hurricanes and the other end-times prophecies of the environmental left. In place of…
Antidote for “Apocalyptic Environmentalists”: “Environmental Colonialism”
Shellenberger fully covers the tedious renewable energy reliability trap. The wind doesn’t always blow, the sun doesn’t always shine, we’re laughably far away from the battery potential needed to store…
Antidote for “Apocalyptic Environmentalists”: Nuking a Reasonable Compromise
Shellenberger notes that “a single Coke can of uranium can provide enough energy for an entire high-energy life.” The book’s advocacy of nuclear energy is arguably its most important and…