A Free-Market Energy Blog

U.S. Climate Policy: Turnaround Time for Trump

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 22, 2025

“Many full-time climate activists like Mark Trexler need to get real jobs in the private sector producing goods and services that people want rather than engaging in wealth redistribution and net resource loss. A sea change is upon us….”

Mark Trexler of the (alarmist) Climate Risk Red Team (see appendix below) has compiled a list of Trump-related action items for a consumer-first, America-first approach to climate and energy policy. Trexler, worried about Trump, published this useful list that can now be compared to the Trump executive orders flowing from Washington, DC:

While I’d heard a lot about the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” blueprint for a second Trump Administration, I’ve never seen a simple listing of specific things being proposed. Note this is just a partial list, is limited to climate change, and is just one of a number of such lists being developed.

Continue Reading

Energy & Environmental Review: January 21, 2025

By -- January 21, 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. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** Biden Gives $27 Billion for Clean-Energy Deals in Final Days
*** Economic Health Watch: Affordability of Necessities
Why do wind projects get the gas price?

Unreliables (General):
*** Big Wind & Big Solar are Trying to Sue Rural America into Submission
*** Green Fantasies Have Adverse Consequences
Germans’ Pushback on Green Energy Topples Gov’t Leadership
Trump’s energy policies are a game changer for renewables
Deconstructing a continuing green scheme

Wind Energy — Offshore:
NOAA’s “no evidence” that wind kills whales violates the Information Quality Act
NOAA Withdraws Critical Right Whale Protection Rule Changes

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Trump Says He Wants No Wind Turbines Built During Administration
How Much Oil Is Required to Run a Wind Turbine?

Continue Reading

Election Realities, Progress Ahead

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 20, 2025

“The enemy is not Donald Trump and never has been. The enemy is Statism. Left libertarians such as David Boaz and Tom Palmer, with their emotions raging, and outfits like the Left-funded, TDS-infested, Kamala-supporting Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism never got it and still don’t.”

Statism and intellectual elitism took a big hit in the election. Count the reasons, such as this listing distributed on social media.

It was the economy…. migrant mess…. inflation spurred by rampant spending…. green energy idiocy…. electric-everything mandates…. Left’s anti-Americanism. Men in women’s sports. Transitioning children.
Threats to the Supreme Court and the filibuster. Lawfare. Government greed. Lasting damage done to a generation of children from repressive lockdowns. Abandonment of merit in favor of identity politics. Foreign policy idiocy, such as the Afghanistan debacle and sending billions to Iran.

Continue Reading

ESG Whistleblower Challenges Climate Narrative (Desiree Fixler in the mix)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 17, 2025
Continue Reading

Last Gasp for Offshore Wind: “Reinvesting in Shoreline Economies and Ecosystems Act”

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 16, 2025
Continue Reading

French Nuclear: End of the Line?

By Kennedy Maize -- January 15, 2025
Continue Reading

Trash Talk at Fossil Fuels re SoCal Wildfires (alarmists unhinged)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 14, 2025
Continue Reading

Joe Romm’s The Climate Ate My Homework! (re Southern California fires)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 13, 2025
Continue Reading

Carter on Smaller Government: Words for Trump

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 11, 2025
Continue Reading

Alaska Energy Shenanigans: Eklutna Dam and the RPS (Part II: Political Highjack)

By -- January 10, 2025
Continue Reading