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Federal Agency Faces Backlash After Wind Farms Get Exemption for Killing Eagles

Wind industry insiders call it a “turbine collision,” though the feds prefer “non-purposeful take.” But critics such as Sharon Klemm get real on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife website: “Why don’t you call...

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Wind Farms Divide Environmentalists: Renewable Energy vs. Dead Birds

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Paul Domski is a falconer and a bird lover. And he seriously doesn’t like wind farms or the federal government’s recent decision to protect wind energy companies from punishment for...

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Wind Farms Getting a Pass on Killing Endangered Bats?

Nothing strikes fear into developers and property owners more than a new critter on the federal list of endangered species. Case in point: The northern long-eared bat, found in 39 states. The U.S. Fish...

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Wind Industry Admits It Needs Handout to Compete

One of the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturers let loose a bit of truth and self-admission to the Financial Times: We still need help, and that help must come from taxpayers. The wind production...

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Citizens Want State to Revoke Permit for Wind Project

CORNISH TOWNSHIP, Minn.—How long is too long? About six years and counting, in the view of dozens of rural residents fighting a proposed 1,600-acre, 10-turbine wind farm in southern Minnesota. “This...

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Minnesota Wind-Solar Mandate Would Mean Costly Grid Upgrade

A new report released by the Minnesota Commerce Department lays the technical groundwork for ramping up one of the nation’s highest state renewable energy mandates from 30 to 40 percent by 2030. One...

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Lawmakers, Lobbyists Eye ‘Green’ Energy Subsidies in Lame-Duck Congress

As the lame-duck Congress limps to the finish line, billions of dollars in federal energy subsidies could be up for grabs. The perennial procrastination has solar and wind-power lobbyists scrambling...

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Why Is the Federal Government Doling Out Billions to the Wind Industry?

A generous taxpayer-funded handout for the wind industry expired at the end of 2013—but it’s not going to the grave quietly. Congress could give the handout new life. Currently, Congress is tossing...

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Blowback! Minnesota Wind Developer Takes on Opponents’ ‘Vendetta’

CORNISH TOWNSHIP, Minn. — Developers of a proposed 10-turbine wind farm that has come under fire from dozens of residents have denied alleged permit violations and reaffirmed plans to proceed with the...

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California Has 15 Years to Hit a 50% Renewable Energy Goal. Will It Happen?

California Gov. Jerry Brown has set an ambitious new energy goal: getting the most populous state in the nation to derive 50 percent of its electric power from renewable sources in the space of 15...

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With Potential Collapse of Major Project, Offshore Wind Projects Still Offline

The potential collapse of a controversial project off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., is blowing some doubt around the future of offshore wind energy in the United States. Earlier this month, the Cape...

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Time to End the Production Tax Credit Once and For All

If we want to build a healthier American economy, Congress must stop supporting special interests at the expense of our nation’s economic potential. The Production Tax Credit is a prime example of just...

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Why Wind Energy Is Not Going to Meet All Our Energy Needs

The Department of Energy released its annual Wind Technologies Market Report last week, and the headline is roughly the same as years past: wind is great…and getting greater, but it needs more federal...

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‘Not in My Backyard': Green Energy Mogul Who Opposed Wind Farm Adopts a...

A green energy mogul who protested an offshore wind farm near his summer home on Martha’s Vineyard is criticizing Vermonters who oppose his company’s four-megawatt combined solar farm proposed in...

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Lankford Introduces Bill to Eliminate Wind Tax Credits

The winds could soon be changing on Capitol Hill. Today Senator James Lankford, R-Okla., introduced legislation that would gradually eliminate federal energy tax credits for a decades-old wind subsidy....

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End Wind Welfare

Unnecessary government subsidies promote inefficiency, limit competition, and cost taxpayers more than they get in return. A prime example is the wind energy Production Tax Credit, or PTC. While this...

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What the Defeat of a Wind Energy Project Means for Harry Reid’s Hometown

Grassroots conservationists and property rights activists in Nevada stand poised to secure an unprecedented legal victory over government-backed wind energy proponents that could reverberate across...

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First US Offshore Wind Plant Costs $17,600 Per Home Powered

America’s first offshore wind power plant will cost about $17,600 dollars to build per home it will power. Three miles off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island, the wind farm is supposed to generate...

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Schumer’s Green Energy Subsidies Cost Much More Than Trump’s Wall

The government is shut down over border wall funding, but only a month ago Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer asked President Donald Trump to support billions in green energy subsidies. Schumer, a...

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Consequences of Cuomo’s Climate Agenda Hit Close to Home. His Home.

The unintended consequences of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s global warming crusade are hitting close to home—literally. The utility Consolidated Edison put a moratorium on new natural gas hookups...

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Ocasio-Cortez Deletes Tweet Hailing Oil Price Crash That Risks Big Job Losses

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted—and then quickly deleted—comments that appeared to show adulation over the price of oil dipping below $0 a barrel, which will ultimately lead to job...

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Blackouts and Fires Caused by California’s Ineffective Green Policies

In the soft warmth of spring the swallows famously return to Capistrano, but in recent years they are followed by what seems inevitable summer power outages and fires. This is not as pleasant an...

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Millions in Africa Being Sacrificed to Extreme Poverty, Premature Death on...

Obama-era policies that favor so-called green energy over coal-fired electricity are dooming millions of Africans to lives of extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and increased risk of early...

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What Sweeping Power Outages in Texas Tell Us (and Don’t Tell Us) About Its...

Snow, ice, and negative temperatures in the Lone Star State—what in the world is happening in Texas? And for that matter, in the greater Southeast? The short answer is, demand for power and heat...

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Green Energy Leaves Americans Out in the Cold in More Ways Than One

February gave Texas the cold shoulder this weekend as an extreme winter storm pounded the entire state. As of this morning, power had not been restored to more than 4 million Texans. Hundreds of...

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Reasons for Texas Blackouts and How Best to Avoid Them Going Forward

As millions of Texans suffer from a lack of electric power, heat, and water, the “never let a crisis go to waste” crowd is in full swing on both sides of the political aisle. Half-truths and...

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Biden Poised to Bail Out Wind Energy Industry, Experts Predict

A bailout package for the struggling offshore wind industry may be imminent if the industry’s struggles do not abate soon, energy industry and policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The...

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Associated Press Got It Wrong: Wind Farm Contractors Acknowledge Turbines...

When wind turbine companies seek permission to harm sea life, reporters for The Associated Press blame The Heritage Foundation (where I work) and The Heartland Institute, instead of reporting the...

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Why China Wants You to Drive an EV

China’s economy is struggling: Many young people can’t find jobs, the nation’s real estate market is in trouble after two major property development companies failed, and China’s stock market has seen...

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GREEN GRIFT: Renewable Energy’s Inefficiencies, Subsidies for Rich

“We’re building a clean energy future,” says President Joe Biden. Who is “we”? Well, you pay for it. He and his “green” cronies do most of the building. Lately, they’re pouring more of your money into...

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