“Getting out of the Paris climate treaty is the single biggest and most important deregulatory action taken by the Trump administration.”
– Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute, November 8, 2019
The Trump Administration continues to keep its promises when it comes to climate policy. The focus is on free-market adaptation, not alarmist, government-led mitigation, to deal with the uncertainties of future weather events, whether natural or otherwise.
A 277-word press release from The U.S. Department of State, On the U.S. Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, is from Secretary Mike Pompeo.
… Continue ReadingToday the United States began the process to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Per the terms of the Agreement, the United States submitted formal notification of its withdrawal to the United Nations. The withdrawal will take effect one year from delivery of the notification.
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Some of the more important articles in
this issue are:
Everything You Hear About Billion-Dollar
Disasters Is Wrong
Wind turbines don’t lead to a windfall
Perpetual Infants: $100 Billion in Subsidies
and US Wind & Solar Want More
NY State blows smoke to hide wind costs
California Subsidizes Natural Gas Plants
to Prevent Widespread Blackouts
The Electric Car Fantasy
Germany stipulates turbine setbacks
to be 3300± feet
Conventional Wind Energy – A Design
Deadly for Birds
Inherit The Wind
PUC’s Former Lawyer Says Approval Of
Hawaii Wind Project Violated Law
First-of-a-kind U.S.…
“Nevertheless, you’d think the Governor and others would be actively trying to make things better, rather than just pointing fingers. Well … they are making it worse by taking away the one alternative to electricity that can provide cooking and hot water and space heat and does so much more efficiently–natural gas.”
I sit here at my computer this morning after suffering through the latest “PSPS” (public safety power shutoff), which left me without electricity a total of ten full days in October. Kind of ironic given my 45+ years in energy policy–and frustrating too since this is less an Act of God than an Act of Man–or Government.
I understand the need to reduce fire risk in California’s hot dry climate where utilities (such as PG&E) need to de-energize power lines lest they spark when blown down or branches fall on them. …
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