“With the exception of the New England region, pipeline opponents have failed to halt the growth of US pipeline systems. Oil and gas pipeline networks continue to expand with improving safety, while delivering increasing amounts of petroleum, petroleum products, and natural gas to US residents and businesses.”

Opposition to oil and gas pipelines produces sensational headlines. Protests of the Keystone XL, Dakota Access, and numerous smaller projects are well-covered by the media, creating the impression of an industry halted by public outcry. But the US pipeline network is steadily expanding and safety is improving.

Construction efforts for oil and gas pipelines have long faced opposition from local residents who don’t want a pipeline near their community. But over the last decade, opposition expanded from local to national, involving protesters concerned with supposed impact on the climate and the global environment.…

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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

Retail Electricity Prices for sample countries

Wind Turbines Threaten Property Values in Upstate NY

Billions in U.S. solar projects shelved after Trump panel tariff

Texas Wind Power Story — Part One

Sound (and Light) Reasons to Tilt at Windmills

Judge’s ruling against Minnesota wind farm causes alarm for advocates

The Observed Impacts of Wind Turbines on Local Vegetation Growth

Essay: Wind Energy Illusions

Archive: Wind and Solar have a Secret Friend — Gas

Wind Developer ordered to buy out Minnesota homeowners

Being “Green” is Easy — Ignore the Facts

Taking aim at the real polluters: some US Environmental Groups

Newly Elected Ontario Premier’s encouraging Statement on Wind Energy

New Texas Wind Project Could Interfere with Radars

Environmentalists don’t support nuclear — as there is no money in it

How North Korea Has Weaponized Electricity

EPA Celebrates 500 Days of American Greatness

Fellows of the Royal Geological Society pushback over climate position

The Rise of Political Correctness

The Corruption of Science

Identity Politics Undermining Science

A Different War of Attrition

Americans Served Badly by a Religion that has Run Its Course

Ten Religious Reasons Against Climate Change

Steve Milloy doesn’t like ‘climate bed wetters’

Three Climate Change Questions Answered

Greed Energy Economics:

Retail Electricity Prices for sample countries

Wind Turbines Threaten Property Values in Upstate NY

Billions in U.S.…

[Editor note” Part I presented the key questions regarding the climate-change issue from William Niskanen’s Fall 1997 symposium essay, “Too Much, Too Soon: Is a Global Warming Treaty a Rush to Judgment?.” Part II was Niskanen’s views on How Good is the Science of Global Warming? Part III today is his views on Should We Fear Some Moderate Warming?]

“On the whole, it is not yet clear whether some moderate warming should be a cause for concern. The balance of conditions suggests that moderate warming may generate net benefits to people in temperate regions and net costs to people in the tropics.”

“As now envisioned, however, the major costs of the measures presumed necessary to avoid global warming would be borne by people in the rich countries of temperate regions.…

https://niskanencenter.org/blog/last-week-trump-kneecapped-conservative-climate-policy/

“Republicans have gone from measured resistance to climate action into total, unreasoning incoherence.”

“There are Republicans who know better, but they’ve been cowed into silence while their party drifts ever further into madness.”

  Jerry Taylor, “Last Week, Trump Kneecapped Conservative Climate Policy.”

Lost in the firestorm that followed last week’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement is the arresting display of intellectual meltdown within the GOP. Republicans—with Trump at the helm—are gleefully blowing up an agreement that was everything they have long said they wanted out of international climate talks. They are likewise shredding Obama-era compliance plans that are anchored in everything conservatives still say they want out of domestic environmental policy. Republicans have gone from measured resistance to climate action into total, unreasoning incoherence.

The Republican battle cry in the 1990s and 2000s was that no U.S.…