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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: April 6, 2020

By -- April 6, 2020

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy, environmental, and education policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every two± weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Crises and the collectivist temptation
13 Petroleum Products Crucial to the COVID-19 Pandemic
We gambled on the wrong threat — climate change
COVID-19 and Climate Change: The Parallels
The Coronavirus Pandemic vs the Climate Emergency
Massachusetts v. EPA: After 13 years, it’s time for climate policy review
Archive video: The War on Humans
Russia continues to influence America’s energy sources
Identity Politics Lied. New Yorkers Died
Dead-Of-Night COVID-19 Vote Gives Cuomo New Emergency Powers
Cuomo critics highlight years of waste, amid deepening COVID-19 crisis
A Scholar’s Lament
Soap-opera science
The Fed’s Cure Risks Being Worse Than the Disease
A free nation cannot long survive if its press takes sides

COVID-19:
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Greed Energy Economics:
Grand Theft: US Taxpayers Liable For $120 Billion In Subsidies to Wind & Solar
Wind & Solar Lobbyists letter to Democrats for COVID-19 Handouts
Renewable Energy Advocates Decry Lack of Handouts in Stimulus Bill
Why Dems were so bent on passing wind handouts amid COVID-19 crisis
France: Far more support for turbines that for medicine and hospitals

Renewable Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
Noise is still bad for health
BBC finally concedes: Green energy facilities threat to wilderness areas
Migratory Bird Treaty Act reform will clarify longstanding confusion

Solar Energy:
Solar Capacity Low Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine – Who Could’ve Known?
California Pushes for Solar Panel Waste Policy

Natural Gas Energy:
COVID-19 Virus Being Fought with Methane Control Technology
Short video: SHALEout!
Save America’s Oil And Gas Industry
Russia continues to influence America’s energy sources
Several states propose blocking cities from banning natural gas
Pipeline-Starved NYS Avoids Natural Gas Shortages this Winter, but the Future?
Energy Security Matters, As It Turns Out, And Fracking Is Key

New York State:
Identity Politics Lied. New Yorkers Died
Dead-Of-Night Coronavirus Vote Gives Cuomo Sweeping New Emergency Powers
Cuomo critics highlight years of taxpayer waste, amid deepening COVID-19 crisis
Gov Cuomo to ram industrial wind, solar plants down locals’ throats
Cuomo’s coronavirus failure – the real reason for New York’s ventilator shortage
Short video: How NY Failed it’s Citizens
Short video: Are NY wind turbine workers “essential services”? and Part 2
Governor Cuomo and His Insatiable Appetite for Power
Pomfret (NY) tightens its wind law
NY Department of State to oversee renewable siting office

Miscellaneous Energy News:
Surviving the Coronavirus? Thank Fossil Fuels.
13 Petroleum Products Crucial to the COVID-19 Pandemic
To Fight The Coronavirus, The World Returns To Fossil Fuels
Letter objecting to renewable handouts in US COVID-19 economics bill
Green New Deal Preview Offered by Wuhan Coronavirus
AI software to improve Nuclear reactor designs, performance, safety, lifetimes
China’s 2019 electricity generation reviewed
Trump Administration upgrades Obama-era fuel-efficiency standards
Nevada’s Renewable Energy Delusion
Developer of Hawaii wind project withdraws its bid (after 4+ years of resistance)

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
COVID-19 and Climate Change: The Parallels
The coronavirus pandemic vs the Climate Emergency
Archive video: The War on Humans
NASA and NOAA’s Latest Climate Warning Is a Result of Purposefully Flawed Data
Video: The Superbowl Of Data Tampering
Bandwagon Of Doom Washed Away By Tidal Wave Of Data
Throwing cold water on hot climate models
Climate Litigation: a Government Grab for Cash

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
Massachusetts v. EPA: After 13 years, it’s time for climate policy review
We gambled on the wrong threat — climate change
COVID-19 And Climate Change: Asia’s Policy Choices In The Age Of ‘Crisis’
People Will Be In No Mood To Stay In Panic Mode After COVID-19 Scare Ends
Is the COVID-19 Economic Downturn Affecting Atmospheric CO2? Data Says Not Yet
The Earth’s Temperature (going down!)
Russia Pledges To Increase CO2 Emissions By 2030
Ocean Temperature Changes and Sea Level Changes
Causes and consequences of global warming, a natural phenomenon, a political issue, or a scientific debate?
Video: The IPCC is an inept organization that wastes its budget on Showbiz events
Report: Earth now warmest in 2,000 years, thanks to Sun not CO2

Education Related:
A Scholar’s Lament
Soap-opera science
Higher Education Will Never Be the Same—And That’s Not All Bad
A Conversation with the Chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill
How Tulsa University Was Turned into Toxic University

US Politics and Socialism:
Crises and the collectivist temptation
Biden vs Sanders on the Green New Deal
Will coronavirus launch the second wave of socialism?

Other US Politics and Related:
The Fed’s Cure Risks Being Worse Than the Disease
A free nation cannot long survive if its press takes sides
Response To COVID-19 Reflects Trump’s Plan To Radically Reform Health Care
Short video: What Was Revolutionary About the American Revolution?
Short video: Conservatives Are the Real Environmentalists

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