New York’s state legislature has just directed the state’s public power provider to build renewable energy projects. The law instructing the New York Power Authority includes language about “environmental justice” and labor that socialists would love—in fact, socialists do love it. The Democratic Socialists of America lobbied for the law and the group is gearing…
Author: Jane Shaw Stroup
Friday Links: Getting $400 Billion out the Door, Fast-Rising Wind Turbine Prices, and More
- Energy Department in a hurry to lend $400 billion by the 2024 election.
- Tired of your slow-moving dishwasher? It’s going to get worse, for a lot of appliances.
- Wind turbine prices are up 38 percent over the past two years.
- There is no such thing as a “green” energy transition. Renewables can’t do what fossil fuels do, engineer says.
- And there’s more.
What You Should Know about the Latest Threat to a Free Society
The Heartland Institute has published a study of ESG—the environmental, social, and governance movement increasingly adopted by companies and investors. Jack McPherrin calls it “one of the gravest threats facing the free societies of the world today.” “At its core, ESG is a social credit scoring system that ideologically aligned elites and subservient bureaucratic authorities…
Electric Military Vehicles, State Bottle Bills . . . and Other Tuesday Links
- Energy secretary Granholm pushes for electrification of military vehicles.
- U.K. auto parts manufacturer considers a move to the U. S.—for the subsidies!
- New York Times wants more generators (fueled with natural gas) because climate change increases electric outages. (No, not the Babylon Bee.)
- Industry lobbying for state bottle bills (i.e., “container deposit” bills—consumer pays) accelerates.
What’s This Chevron Precedent and Why Does It Matter?
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case (Loper Bright Enterprises et. al vs. Raimondo) that will revisit a past Supreme Court decision known as the “Chevron precedent.” If the Court overturns or modifies that precedent, it would weaken agencies’ power to regulate. A group of New Jersey fishing companies has sued the…
Friday’s Links
- Eco-activists try to get U.K. prime minister to advocate eating bugs. (This is not the Babylon Bee!)
- Should we mimic volcanoes to cool the earth? (It’s called solar engineering.)
- Claim: Evangelicals are unconcerned about climate change because the end is near anyway? (Actually, there are better reasons to be skeptical.)
- Colorado plans to re-introduce gray wolves to the state but no nearby state (Utah, Wyoming, Idaho Montana) is eager to provide any.