Forced Electrification: The Stealth War on Your Dishwasher
Activists may call it “electrification,” but their plan has nothing to do with bringing electricity to rural communities à la the New Deal and Tennessee Valley Authority. Instead, it’s a…
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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…
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…
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…