October 31, 2013 – 3:24 pm
What happens when all these supposedly “green” companies that received taxpayer “loans” from Obama’s Stimulus collapse? (Fox News) A Colorado-based solar company that got hundreds of millions of dollars in federal loan guarantees before going belly-up didn’t just empty taxpayers’ wallets – it left behind a toxic mess of carcinogens, broken glass and contaminated water, […]
October 27, 2013 – 3:54 pm
Really, any time someone runs a poll on “climate change”, they should include 4 questions Do you think people should pay more in taxes for “climate change”? Would you be willing to pay higher taxes? Do you think government should heavily regulate the use of fossil fuels? Do you think government should heavily regulate your […]
October 26, 2013 – 8:29 am
Perhaps companies are extremely reticent to dump their money into projects that have a poor rate of financial return (Washington Times) So much for the White House dream of solar selling like hotcakes. The first federal auction run by the Bureau of Land Management to sell chances to build solar power projects on public land […]
October 4, 2013 – 3:25 pm
However, not so much about giving up their own fossil fuels or energy usage (USA Today) If energy consumption continues to grow at its current rate, that’s when the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will cause permanent climate change, according to a new U.N. report. That year stuck out to Daniel Sherrell, a […]
October 4, 2013 – 10:28 am
Kinda tells you how far they’ve gone from the core mission, eh? (via Junk Science) (Reuters) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will take one of the biggest hits of any federal agency if the government shuts down this week, operating with under 7 percent of its employees, according to guidance issued by the agency. Among […]
October 2, 2013 – 12:01 pm
They might just have to let buildings with “alternative energy” burn (Fox News) Firefighters across the nation are alarmed at the prospect of battling blazes in buildings topped with solar panels, which can create new risks of roofs collapsing, an inability to gain footing and even potential electric shock. Two recent fires involving structures decked […]
September 20, 2013 – 1:03 pm
How’d this make it through the censors at the NY Times? It is an audacious undertaking with wide and deep support in Germany: shut down the nation’s nuclear power plants, wean the country from coal and promote a wholesale shift to renewable energy sources. But the plan, backed by Chancellor Angela Merkel and opposition parties […]
September 14, 2013 – 12:37 pm
Guest Post by William Teach of Pirate’s Cove. Follow me on Twitter @WilliamTeach. There have been over 300 murders in Chicago this year, which doesn’t count all the attempted murders and other violence in the Windy City, and kids are scared to go to school as they pass through gang wars in safe passage areas, […]
September 12, 2013 – 11:16 am
What does he care if this causes you, the peasant, to suffer? (Bloomberg) Representatives of coal-intensive utilities and coal-producing regions said that President Barack Obama would effectively outlaw construction of new power plants using the fuel with pending environmental rules. The Environmental Protection Agency is revising proposed rules from last year in response to opposition […]
August 20, 2013 – 11:36 am
Biofuels, including ethanol, might be workable in the future. Heck, using sugar as fuel seems to be working well in Brazil. But, what’s being done in America, and much of the developed world, where it is mostly food being used to develop fuels, is an unmitigated disaster (article is behind the paywall. You can see […]
