By Duggan Flanakin
The Heartland Institute
“Federal courts have ordered the Trump administration to impose energy efficiency standard upgrades for four set of appliances first proposed under the Obama Administration,” according to The Heartland Institute.
“COURT ORDERS U.S. ENERGY DEPARTMENT TO SET EFFICIENCY STANDARDS” Read Full Article »
by Salena Zito
Washington Examiner
CANONSBURG, Pennsylvania — “After years of ideologues and elites using the natural gas industry as a punching bag for politics and climate change activism, Nick DeIuliis, the CEO of CNX Resources, one of the largest natural gas producers in Western Pennsylvania, has had enough, according to the Washington Examiner. “In remarks at a Rotary Club speech at the storied William Penn Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh last week, the blue-collar man who earned degrees in engineering and law, and his job at the top, decided to speak out to defend an industry that has become a regional economic game-changer.”
“In Pennsylvania, natural gas industry prepares for battle” Read Full Article »
by Daniel Turner and Kent Lassman
Power the Future, Competitive Enterprise Institute and Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty
The Green New Deal could cost households in 11 states “long green” —$70,000 in just the first year according to a study by Poweer the Future and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The eleven states analyzed in the study are Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
by Bonner R. Cohen
The Heartland Institute
“Tucson Electric Power requested the Arizona Regulators allow it to by add $7.61 to home customers’ monthly electricity bill beginning in May 2020, to pay for new renewable power supplies, having helped close an inexpensive coal power plant in late 2019,” according to The Heartland Institute’s Bonner Cohen.
“ARIZONANS FACE STIFF RATE HIKES AS UTILITIES SWITCH TO RENEWABLES” Read Full Article »
The Christian Science Monitor
Trump administration shrinks monuments to develop America’s energy.
“Trump shrinks Utah’s national monuments to allow mining” Read Full Article »
CFACT
CFACT reports that Harvard University scientists have found that wind turbines warm the atmosphere by slowing down wind currents.
“Harvard study finds wind turbines warm the U.S.” Read Full Article »
by Nicolas Loris
The Heritage Foundation
“By shrinking our economy by potentially tens of trillions of dollars, the Green New Deal will cause lower levels of prosperity and fewer resources to deal with whatever environmental challenges come our way. That’s a bad deal for our economy and our environment,” according to Nicolas Loris, Deputy Director of The Heritage Foundation’s Thomas A. Roe Institute.
“It’s Not Just About Cost. The Green New Deal Is Bad Environmental Policy, Too” Read Full Article »