This 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.
Unreliables (General):
*** Wind Turbines and Solar Panels will be the Monuments of Our Folly
*** New York Court Refuses To Block State’s Plan For A “Renewables” Program
*** Green Policy is Deadlier Than Guns
Japan Chooses Reliable Energy Over Climate Nonsense
Wyoming Wind Turbines Killed More Than 23,000 Birds And Bats Last Year
Electric Vehicles (EVs):
The 4 California “waivers” keeping America’s EV mandate alive
Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** Geothermal Heats Up
*** Europe’s Crisis Is Energy Poverty, not a Heat Wave
*** Why China is outcompeting America
*** Heat Pump Rate Carveouts
The nine energy questions that could decide America’s future
Why both Republicans and Democrats should support aggressive permitting reform
Energy Realism: The Foundation and Future of Human Progress
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Oversight Project Report on biased NAS Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
*** Canadian Wildfire Smoke Just Blew Up the Fantasy of Carbon Emission Trading
*** Canada Admits Justin Trudeau’s Climate Agenda Was a Scam
This Little-Known Climate Report Card Casts A Dark Cloud Over Home Sales
Why This CO2 Chart Doesn’t Scare Me
President Trump Grants Further Regulatory Relief from Burdensome EPA Restrictions to Promote American Security
Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
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“It is time to stop the EPA from acting like an economic planning agency and instead get it focused on its mission of environmental protection.” (Coalition letter, below)
Executive Orders reflect the party in power. Congress sets the rules for administrative agencies. To this end, a group of 40 free market groups led by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) sent a coalition letter in support of legislation to rein in the overly politicized, climate-activist U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The proposed legislation, End of EPA Abuse Act of 2026 ( S. 4931 and H.R. 9453), was introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) respectively, with support from twenty state attorneys general.
The letter follows:
Dear Member of Congress:
The undersigned organizations urge you to support the End EPA Abuse Act of 2026 (H.R.…
Continue Reading“… I also know this credit won’t go on forever. It was never meant to, and it shouldn’t…. I have expressed support in the past for a responsible, multi-year phase out of the wind tax credit. But…”
– Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), an original author of the 1992 Production Tax Credit (PTC)
Special government favor has propped up solar power since the 1970s and wind power since the early 1990s. One decade turning into the next, the (not-so) “clean energy” lobby has repeatedly made promises that their technologies are, or soon will be, competitive with electricity generated from natural gas, petroleum, or coal.
Documentation of this failure is well reported here at MasterResource and by the Institute for Energy Research. This particular post reproduces in large part a 2015 piece by the American Energy Alliance (IER), “Wind Fail: 20 Quotes for 30 Years of False Hopes.”…
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