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Hochul Must Reveal The “Ruinous Cost” Of The Climate Act

January 2, 2026 by

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By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ New York Governor Hochul has been saying for months that the regulations required by law to meet the Climate Act will be ruinously costly to New Yorkers. The draft regs were reportedly finished a year ago. The Governor must be citing their official cost assessment.So where are the numbers? Why has Hochul not […]

The PJM Capacity Auction Sent A Message The Washington Left Can’t Spin Away

December 29, 2025 by

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By Terry L. Headley ~ The latest PJM capacity auction cleared at the maximum allowed price—$333 per megawatt-day—and still came up short. Even at the price cap, the market could not buy enough power to meet PJM’s own reliability standard.Capacity auctions exist for one reason: to make sure the lights stay on when the system […]

Tony’s Road Trip (The Millmerran Power Plant)

December 6, 2025 by

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By Anton Lang ~ Before leaving on my road trip, I wondered about the possibility of visiting the Millmerran power plant. The route I planned was one I had travelled before, albeit between 35 and 40 years ago, and the reason I took this route was that it was along a highway that did not go […]

Affordability Crisis: Gavin Newsom And The California Energy Disaster

December 6, 2025 by

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By Steve Goreham ~ California’s Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation (ACF) went into effect in 2024. The regulation intended to force all trucks operating in California to be zero emissions. But electric trucks cost 2─3 times as much as diesel trucks, and because of heavier weight, carry less freight.Diesels can travel about 1200 miles after filling the tank […]

New York’s Climate Law Will Ration Fossil Fuels And Tax The Rations

December 4, 2025 by

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By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ New York Governor Hochul says the emission reduction regulations required by the Climate Act are infeasible and ruinously expensive. She has yet to explain this, so here is my simple assessment.The regulatory program has two very different mechanisms. First, they ration your fossil fuels. Then, they tax you heavily on the ration you […]

COP30: Ten Years After Paris, Climatism Is Crumbling

November 16, 2025 by

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By Steve Goreham ~ COP30, the UN climate conference, is underway in Belem, Brazil. Thousands of representatives from all over the world have journeyed to discuss how to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to try to fight human-caused climate change. But ten years after the Paris Climate Agreement, the global consensus on climate change is crumbling.COP30 is […]

New York’s Climate Law Hits The Wall

November 5, 2025 by

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By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Hell done froze. New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a leading contender for Greenest Governor in America, wants to redo their infamous Climate Act because New Yorkers cannot afford it. This is a sure sign that the rapidly rising cost of energy has become a big election issue.Hochul’s position kicks off what promises to […]

Trump Threw A Big Wrench Into China’s Attempt To Bully U.S. Over Critical Minerals

October 29, 2025 by

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By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ Approving the construction of a gravel mining road in a remote stretch of northwest Alaska may not sound like much, but it’s a giant step toward challenging an assertive China’s plan to become the 21st century’s dominant global power.Once completed, the proposed 211-mile-long Ambler Road Project will provide access to rich […]

Trump Reloads An ‘America First’ Energy Agenda While Reasserting Sound Science

October 10, 2025 by

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By Kevin Mooney ~ For a good laugh, turn to page 42 of the report President Donald Trump’s Energy Department released in July. On this page, the huge gulf between climate modeling and observed warming comes into sharp focus. The report includes a chart of all 36 climate models, as well as the warming that […]

Virginia Could Pay $500 Million Per Year In Higher Electricity Costs If Spanberger Wins Gov Race

October 5, 2025 by

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By Kevin Mooney ~ Virginia voters should know that if Abigail Spanberger becomes their next governor, they will be staring back at $500 million in higher electricity costs each year, according to a new report from the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy.That’s because Spanberger, a former Democrat member of Congress, has pledged to have Virginia […]

UN, EU, ICJ, Climate Cabal Want To Keep The Poor Impoverished

October 1, 2025 by

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By Paul Driessen ~ On the evening of September 30, 1882, Henry Rogers turned a switch, and the Hearthstone Historic House living room in Appleton, Wisconsin (my mother’s hometown) was bathed in a soft amber glow. Hearthstone became the first home in the world lit by electricity.Today, few can imagine our lives without plentiful, reliable, […]

AI Runs On Power, But Power Isn’t Moving Fast Enough

September 22, 2025 by

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From the team at CFACT ~ By Christian Bonilla ~ Artificial intelligence is booming — and America’s power grid is struggling to keep up.At the World Economic Forum, President Trump recently warned that “We need double the energy we currently have in the United States for AI to be as big as we want to […]

Failures Of The Renewables Transition Are Insults To Taxpayers.

September 3, 2025 by

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By Ronald Stein ~ Natural gas and crude oil are commonly needed fossil fuels to manufacture insulation, wires, and computers used in all methods of generating electricity. This is because components of natural gas and oil are essential feedstocks for creating plastics, which are used for insulation and many computer parts. Fossil fuels are also required […]

Zeldin’s EPA Goal To End Obama-Biden Climate Mandates Will Revitalize Energy Industry

August 31, 2025 by

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By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ In proposing to rescind the Obama-era “endangerment finding,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin seeks to do nothing less than demolish the shaky legal foundation on which over 15 years of society-altering climate regulations were built. Fittingly, Zeldin chose a truck dealership in the Midwest (Indianapolis) to challenge the Obama EPA’s 2009 […]

Fueling Our Nuclear Future

August 28, 2025 by

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By Duggan Flanakin ~ Most U.S. nuclear power plants are fueled by uranium oxide (urania), which has a sufficiently high fissile density, exhibited good stability, and effectively retained fission products. Urania is also highly resistant to radiation damage, though it does suffer from being harder to extract energy because of its relatively poor thermal conductivity.While uranium is […]

The AI Energy Crunch Has A Cure: End The “Endangerment Finding”

August 26, 2025 by

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By Melanie Collette ~ This summer, Americans are feeling the pinch as electric bills rise, and independent analysts predict staggering residential-rate increases of 30 to 60 percent by 2030 due to the growing demand from artificial-intelligence data centers. The time to address this situation is now.A recent capacity auction reveals a dramatic increase in clearing prices—spiking […]

Preserving America’s Freedom Means Producing More Energy

August 14, 2025 by

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By Craig Rucker ~ As Americans enjoy their freedom — as they have a God-given right to do — they drive where they want in privately owned cars (gas-powered, hybrid, or electric), live comfortably in heated-and-air-conditioned homes, spend their evenings cooking dinner on gas (or electric stoves), and watch whatever television program or sporting event […]

Electric Power Fantasies Collide Out West

August 12, 2025 by

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By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Westerners are independent people. This independence is even reflected in the West’s electric power grid. There are two major American grids, called respectively the Eastern and Western Interconnections. The north-south dividing line is roughly just east of Colorado. Texas, which never got over being a separate country for nine years, has its own […]

How DOGE Saves Taxpayers Almost $1 Billion By Cutting Energy Department Contracts

August 6, 2025 by

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By Fred Lucas ~ 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 […]

The Future Of Nuclear Might Be Small

August 3, 2025 by

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By Duggan Flanakin ~ As the news gets around that two Chinese companies have developed commercially viable miniature nuclear-powered batteries with potential to operate for up to a century to power everything from pacemakers to remote sensors to multiple uses in outer space, other companies from China to the U.S. to Vietnam are taking a long look […]

OBBB Isn’t All Beautiful, But It’s Pretty Magnificent

August 2, 2025 by

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By Craig Rucker ~ July 4 wasn’t just America’s 249th birthday. It also marked another triumph for President Trump, who inscribed his giant signature on the tax and spending legislation he had vigorously championed.The vote was razor-thin, and not a single House or Senate Democrat voted Yea. Many of the Nay votes reflected false claims […]

AI Revolution Drives Huge Gas Plant Build-Out, Including Memphis Site

July 30, 2025 by

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By Steve Goreham ~ A boom in artificial intelligence (AI) investments now drives the United States electricity market. New data centers and upgrades to existing data centers are creating a vast demand for power. However, major AI firms are opting for natural gas plants to provide electrical power, rather than renewable energy.Since ChatGPT released their conversational AI […]

Small Modular Reactors Are A Game-Changer For Africa And The World

July 26, 2025 by

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By Ronald Stein ~ For South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, where electricity deficits stifle growth, small modular reactors (SMRs) offer a promising solution.With the Trump administration poised to reshape global electricity policy, the U.S. has a unique opportunity to lead the West in supporting Africa’s electricity-driven progress through SMRs. The Trump administration should lead Western […]

Litigation City: World Health Organization Affiliate Classifies Gasoline As ‘Carcinogenic’

July 20, 2025 by

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By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ In a move that will boost the spirits of trial lawyers and climate activists the world over, a branch of the United Nations-affiliated World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified “automotive gasoline and some oxygenated gasoline additives” as Group 1 “carcinogenic” compounds.The agency is taking action […]