“Many states and businesses are backing off ambitious climate targets, and Democrats are less vocal nowadays about climate change. Tech companies are using more natural gas to meet exploding demand for data centers. The International Energy Agency, after some browbeating by Mr. Wright, is revising up its projections for how long fossil fuels will stick around.” – New York Times (below)
Brad Plumer, a “a Times reporter who covers technology and policy efforts to address global warming,” recently explained (September 23, 2026) the “energy dominance” position of the Trump Administration. “The Former Fracking Executive Selling Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’ Vision” began with the subtitle: “Energy Secretary Chris Wright is pitching a future of fossil fuel abundance. It’s not always an easy sell while war drags on and oil prices surge.…
Continue ReadingEd. Note: A new study released by the Institute for Energy Research (IER), “Counting Canada Wrong: The Hidden Surplus Behind the Headline Deficit” (September 2026), makes a case that official trade statistics should treat “discounted raw materials from allies the same as imported finished goods from adversaries.” The present accounting “[has] misdirected Washington’s attention and obscured how international commerce truly affects American manufacturing.” The introduction to this study follows.
“While trade deficits are often a flashpoint when foreign nations undercut domestic manufacturing, the headline deficit with Canada tells a deceiving story. A closer look reveals a trade arrangement that overwhelmingly favors American production, energy independence, and industrial power.”
Putting America First requires trade metrics that accurately reflect industrial strength, strategic independence, and the value of American workers and manufacturers.…
Continue ReadingThis post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Greed Energy Economics:
*** Expensive State Clean Energy Mandates: The Math Nobody Ran
*** Politicians organize to drive up the cost of electricity
Unreliables (General):
Renewable FMEA Thoughts
Reality Check for PA’s Failed Green-Energy Mandates
Solar Energy:
*** What Price Solar? It’s not so cheap as they would have you believe
Wind Energy:
New York, California Launch New Lawsuits Over Trump Administration’s Offshore Wind Lease Buyouts
Nuclear Energy:
*** Unlocking America’s nuclear gold mine: The promise of spent fuel
It’s Time for America to ‘Go Nuclear’ — Power That Is!…