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Heartland UK/Europe: More Progress! (DeSmog confirms again)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 24, 2025

“For the Heartland Institute and its supporters, DeSmog’s reporting serves as a ringing endorsement of their effectiveness. Even in the UK, the exaggerated arguments for the green scam are being revealed.”

MasterResource has posted on the success of the Chicago-based Heartland Institute in the UK/EU fight for energy/climate realism and social justice. DeSmog just provided an update that should be very encouraging to Heartland and its supporters.

In “Nigel Farage to Headline Tufton Street Climate Denial Event” (June 18, 2025), authors Adam Barnett and Sam Bright report:

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is set to speak at an event today organised by a pro-Trump think tank and held in the home of the UK’s main climate science denial group.

Farage, whose party campaigns to scrap the UK’s goal of achieving net zero emissions, is the star speaker at the event, described as a “ground-breaking conversation about climate policy….”

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Energy & Environmental Review: June 23, 2025

By -- June 23, 2025

This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** DOE Secretary Chris Wright on getting rid of renewable energy subsidies

Unreliables (General):
*** The greatest oxymoron statement of all time – “Renewable Energy”

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** US Federal Judge to Allow Multi-State Lawsuit Against Offshore Wind to Proceed
Wind Opponents Sue Trump Administration to Block New York Wind Project
DOT asked to terminate illegal floating wind grant

Wind Energy — Other:
Industrial Wind Scam Returns – Is Your NY Town in the Sacrifice Zone?

Solar Energy:
Public Health Watch: Solar Panel Pollution
Sunnova Bankruptcy Signals Tough Times for Solar

Nuclear Energy:
*** Natural Resources: Advanced Nuclear Development

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Blockbuster: Mark Carney, Mr Net-Zero-Banker himself, now uses oil, gas to make Canada an Energy SuperPower
*** EPA: Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units
EPA Proposes Repeal of Biden-Harris EPA Regulations for Power Plants
The Rise and Rise of King Coal
Banks Boost Fossil Fuel Financing for The First Time since 2021
130 New Gas-Fired Power Projects Proposed in Texas

Miscellaneous Energy News :
*** Report: Power Vision 2030
*** Video: Their Agenda, Your Future
Growing the Grid…in the face of uncertainty
State Net Zero Electricity Dreams Are Collapsing
Next Generation Batteries Are Imminent

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
How NASA got climate change wrong
OPEC Secretary-General attacks Net Zero

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** The Great Climate Science Swindle Goes On
Report: A Few Notes about Climate (Cork Hayden)
Meet Téa Johansson, Teenage Climate Realist:…

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Turning 70: Some Public Policy Notes

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 20, 2025

“My aim is to finish projects to offer a comprehensive, reliable foundation for future energy scholars to expand and improve upon. Many specific episodes can be studied in greater depth, and future events will require analysis.”

This week is a birthday of note for me. Looking back at a half-century of interest in energy history and public policy, I thank my lucky stars and celebrate a worldview–classical liberalism–that has held up very well over time. It is not how smart you are; it is the ability to discern between a false narrative and objective reality. And with a reliable framework to understand the world, blue-collar research was the wide-open opportunity for me. I have never looked back.

My odyssey began with an Ayn Rand novel in high school on individualism. That got me to free-market economics in college.…

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Climate Disobedience Waning?

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 19, 2025
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“The Freedom to Buy Inefficient Products”: A Rebuttal

By -- June 18, 2025
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‘Climate Grieving’ at UK Centre for Climate Psychology

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 17, 2025
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‘Net Zero’ Is Collapsing in U.S. States

By Steve Goreham -- June 16, 2025
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Climate Adaptation vs. Mitigation Fail

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 12, 2025
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Skipping the Rules: Offshore Wind’s Legal Issue

By -- June 11, 2025
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Sunnova Declares Bankruptcy

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 10, 2025
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