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    Maryland Supreme Court to Decide Landmark Climate Case Against Oil Companies
    The nationwide campaign of climate-driven lawsuits made its way to the Maryland Supreme Court on Oct. 6, as a lawyer for Baltimore, Annapolis, and Anne Arundel County told justices that Marylanders had suffered costly damages from rising seas and bad weather, due to a failure by oil and gas companies to warn them that using…
    Kevin Stocklin
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    Spanberger Energy Hikes Would Cost Each Virginian Nearly $3,500 Year
    Virginia governor candidate Abigail Spanberger proved yet again she wants to make Virginians poor and financially struggling—endorsing a terrible state law that is projected to increase energy costs by $3,500 per customer.  Spanberger embraced the poorly named Virginia Clean Economy Act, signed into law in 2020 under former Gov. Ralph Northam, which will ban oil…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    ‘Nuclear’ Data Centers Right Outside Virginia’s Capital City?
    Richmond, Virginia’s WTVR news viewers heard the headline this week that “Goochland County residents voice concerns over proposed data center and nuclear reactor development.” While anti-data center protests are growing more common, there’s also a proposed nuclear reactor site residents are going to have to contend with, too? Is lightning striking twice for residents outside…
    Joe Thomas
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    Deal or No Deal? Has Trump Driven Stake Through Heart of ‘Green New Scam’?
    Is the Green New Deal dead or not? On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump repeatedly vowed to repeal what he called the “green new scam”—his pejorative for the various green energy subsidies and regulations instituted by former President Joe Biden, mostly through the Inflation Reduction Act. Members of the House Freedom Caucus—a conservative faction…
    George Caldwell
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    California ‘Green Accounting’ Rule on CO2 Can Cost Companies Nationwide Billions, With No Benefit to Environment
    California is leading the resistance against President Donald Trump’s deregulation agenda with new rules that will force companies operating in the state to produce audited reports on their carbon dioxide emissions, and analysts say these rules may soon apply to companies throughout the United States.  California is preparing to implement two laws, SB 253 and…
    Kevin Stocklin
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    The Great Coal Comeback?
    President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress are giving coal a chance for a comeback by rolling back burdensome regulations, approving coal projects, and repealing green energy subsidies. If coal still proves to be uncompetitive against other energy resources, then it will have failed on its own merits. But coal’s future shouldn’t be determined by…
    Austin Gae
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    California Climate Change Board Obsessed With ‘Racial Equity’
    California spends billions annually on a fool’s errand: trying to unilaterally change the Earth’s temperature. “Global warming”—now called “climate change” to explain both heat waves and cold snaps—has been used by the Left for decades now to implement its radical agenda, primarily the redistribution of wealth.  It should come as no surprise, therefore, that California’s…
    James Breslo
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    Trump Tilting at Windmills as He Halts Green Energy Projects
    With the halt on construction of a nearly complete offshore windmill project in Rhode Island, it appears President Donald Trump means business in undoing the last administration’s green energy policies. Orsted, a Danish company developing the Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island, was told by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management…
    George Caldwell
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    Gray Lady Sees Red When Called Out for False Green Energy Reporting
    Articles addressing energy and climate topics in The New York Times increasingly include inaccurate data and false information. The problem is compounded by the paper’s failure to follow its own corrections policy when errors are called to its attention.  Readers look to the Times to deliver well-reasoned and fact-checked information and analysis in areas where they are…
    Howard Gruenspecht
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    The Foreign Attack on US Energy: Exposing the Climate Cartel’s War on American Energy
    A decisive pushback against one of the most dangerous threats to American energy is underway. This comes as state attorneys general across the nation continue to scrutinize activist environmental groups that cripple U.S. energy, undermine markets, and threaten our national security. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that his office is officially probing the “climate cartel,” CDP…
    Jason Isaac
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    The Future Requires Dinosaurs
    Long before man walked the Earth, God in His providence created the animals, then sent a massive asteroid that collided with the Earth, wiped out the dinosaurs and other large animals, piled rubble, heat and pressure on top of them and turned them into fossil fuels. Or something like that. God, generously, provided a source…
    Erick Erickson
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    Dems Say EPA Cancelling $7B Community Solar Grants ‘Illegal,’ But Ignore Law
    THE CENTER SQUARE—The Environmental Protection Agency has announced it will claw back $7 billion in already earmarked funds from the Solar for All community grants and then eliminate the program, a move that Democrats claim is against the law. “This money was intended for our constituents and communities to help lower energy bills,” Energy and…
    Thérèse Boudreaux
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    Turns Out Major Climate Study Peddled by Media Relied on Bunk Data
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A 2024 climate change study amplified by the corporate press projecting up to $38 trillion in global climate damages by 2050 relied on inaccurate data, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The study’s inclusion of Uzbekistan’s faulty gross domestic product figures skewed its results and cast doubt on its conclusion that global GDP…
    Audrey Streb
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    Nuclear Reactor on the Moon? NASA Chief Says It’s Needed to Power Lunar Base
    The Trump administration is prioritizing getting a nuclear reactor on the moon by the end of the decade in a bid to beat Russia and China. “We’re in a race to the moon, in a race with China to the moon. And to have a base on the moon, we need energy. And some of…
    Jacob Adams
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    How DOGE Saves Taxpayers Almost $1 Billion by Cutting Energy Department Contracts
    By the end of July, the Energy Department accrued more than $950 million in contract savings with assistance from the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency.  In some cases, the terminated contracts were tied to regulations. In other cases, the contracts were about “environmental justice” or related to energy “justice.”  One example was a $259…
    Fred Lucas
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    Can the EPA Help Undo Virginia’s Climate Mandates?
    This week, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin began the process of negating the agency’s 2009 “endangerment finding” that was, as President Barack Obama called it, the “holy grail of climate change regulation.” The endangerment finding allowed the EPA to regulate the very byproduct of human existence, carbon dioxide, as a pollutant. With that finding,…
    Joe Thomas
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    Virginia Faces Energy Crisis Amid Rising Electricity Demand, 2020 ‘Clean Economy’ Law
    With unparalleled growth in electricity demand—driven in no small part by the explosion of data centers in the state—Virginia must decide where its energy future lies. The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, a free-market think tank, warned against 2020’s Virginia Clean Economy Act—which phases out coal and gas in favor of wind and solar—claiming…
    Christina Lewis
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    Poland’s Pragmatic Energy Approach Pays Off
    By refusing to play by the European Union’s restrictive climate rules, Poland has begun to build one of Europe’s most energy-secure economies. While much of the bloc marches in lockstep toward a self-inflicted economic wound called “net zero,” Poland has chosen a different path—one of pragmatism, national interest, and, most importantly, energy security. And this…
    Vijay Jayaraj
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    Reversing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding on Greenhouse Gases
    The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering its 2009 “endangerment finding” that six “greenhouse gases,” including carbon dioxide and methane, are causing or contributing to climate change and are reasonably expected to endanger public health and welfare. On July 29, the EPA and the Department of Energy will issue proposed rules during which the public can…
    Kevin Dayaratna | Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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    Let the Market Decide—The Wisdom of Ending Wind and Solar Subsidies
    The recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act signals a major shift in federal energy policy. Among its provisions, the law accelerates the phase-out of tax credits for new wind and solar projects and eliminates long-term subsidies for renewable developers on public land. The law revives a principle that should guide all energy policy: Let the best…
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth | Ryan Strasser
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