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.
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!…
“Judicial protection of the decision of American consumers over many decades to choose the best energy products–and in this case petroleum products for transportation and home heating–is common sense. This law will better protect Americans than court decisions, however favorable, against the anti-energy, anti-consumer extremists with false pretenses.”
The Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026 (S.4340), introduced in the Senate by Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and in the House by Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.), proposes to protect energy companies from climate change lawsuits and state-level penalties. This legislation is in response to climate activism in 11 states, two of which (Vermont and New York) have enacted “climate superfund” laws. The other nine states looking seeking judicial payouts are California, Hawaii, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Virginia.
A press release from Rep.…
Continue ReadingEd. Note: Hydropower (“white coal”) was once the lone alternative to coal for electrical generation, supplying about one-third of U.S. supply in 1950. Today, hydro supplies around six percent of national power (and falling). The post below speaks to the political imbroglio of this energy source with the example of Michigan.
Michigan regulators have granted Consumers Energy a two-month delay in dealing with its controversial plan to sell 13 small and elderly hydroelectric plants to a Maryland-based private equity firm.
The Jackson, Mich., investor-owned utility last week (Sept. 8) asked the Michigan Public Service Commission to remove a decision on the company’s unusual hydro selloff from its scheduled Sept. 10 meeting until November. The utility said it wants “an opportunity to resolve the issues in this case cooperatively” with the parties to the case.…
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