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...
View ArticleWind 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...
View ArticleWind 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...
View ArticleWind 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...
View ArticleCitizens 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...
View ArticleMinnesota 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...
View ArticleLawmakers, 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleBlowback! 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...
View ArticleCalifornia 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...
View ArticleWith 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...
View ArticleTime 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View Article‘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...
View ArticleLankford 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....
View ArticleEnd 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleFirst 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...
View ArticleSchumer’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...
View ArticleConsequences 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...
View ArticleOcasio-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...
View ArticleBlackouts 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...
View ArticleMillions 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleGreen 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...
View ArticleReasons 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...
View ArticleBiden 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...
View ArticleAssociated 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleGREEN 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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