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Energy & Environmental Review: September 29, 2025

By -- September 29, 2025

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:
*** Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Projects to Switch Off When it’s Too Windy?

Unreliables (General):
*** How to end the “100% renewable” fraud
*** The transition to renewables is a globalist suicide pact for the rest of us!
Breaking Down How Energy Prices Will End Up Affecting the Midterm Elections
Public Should Receive Earlier Notification of Solar or Wind Projects

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** All Republicans Must Stop The Wind Scam
*** Court filings claim Revolution Wind developers didn’t answer Fed questions
UK Offshore Wind Project receives $2.5+ Billion (US) in just Six Years

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Wind Turbine Radar Interference
Upstate NY Wind Project demolition

Nuclear Energy:
*** Introducing SMR Intelligence US
OKLO SMR

Miscellaneous  Energy News:
*** AlexAI on why European electricity is so expensive, “energy efficiency,” and the limitations of batteries
*** Alex Epstein: Talking points roundup: rising electricity prices, the National Academies’ climate “report,” China’s new coal plants, and more
60 Hours: Berlin Suffers Longest Power Cut Since WW2 after Ultra-Leftist Sabotage
It makes more sense to produce hydrogen with nuclear, not renewables

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** The Consensed and the Realist
*** Teaching Children about Climate Misinformation Caused by Averaging
Media’s Psyop Against Climate Scientists
Three Climate Lawsuits in Montana
Trump to UN: Climate change ‘the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world’

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** The National Academies’ perversion of science

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
*** GAO submits Comments on EPA Reconsideration of 2009 “Endangerment Finding”
Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered
Geoengineering?

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“Climate Pragmatism”: The New Retreat

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 26, 2025

“I’ve yet to meet a blue-collar worker at a cleantech conference, nor have I met one at cleantech dinner tables. The industry needs to ditch its self-righteous virtue signaling and stop relying on handouts.” (- a Cleantech veteran, below)

“Is this really the climate movement’s next chapter?” asked Stephen Lacey, cofounder and executive editor of Latitude Media, a publication “covering the new frontiers of the energy transition.”

If so, it will end in nothing more than further alienating voters. The progressive approach to climate mobilization has largely failed to build durable coalitions and policies. The election of Trump clearly showed that kitchen table issues matter most. We are in an extraordinary moment where people are struggling to pay their energy bills — and this is the answer? I agree with Michael Liebreich that we need a deep, pragmatic climate reset.

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Fisher on the NASEM Climate Report

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 25, 2025

“These are matters of public policy, not science alone. And in no case should a group of allegedly objective scientists attempt to shut down a public policy debate.” (-T. Fisher, below)

Travis Fisher, director of energy and environmental policy studies at the Cato Institute, has rapidly become a trusted voice in the sustainability debates of our time. He recently reported on social media:

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) just declared the [prior] EPA’s endangerment finding on greenhouse gases “beyond scientific dispute.”

While the endangerment finding is the legal foundation for many of EPA’s climate regulations, NASEM’s unsolicited report crosses an important line — from providing objective scientific advice to advocating for a specific policy.

Science can inform policy, but it cannot make policy for us.

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The Fallacy of ‘Exxon Knew” (Part II)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 24, 2025
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“Exxon Knew” as Historical Fallacy (Part I)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 23, 2025
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Comments: DOE Climate Science Study

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 22, 2025
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Solar Books to Skip

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 19, 2025
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Lisa Sachs (Columbia University): Assume, Don’t Debate, Premises

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 17, 2025
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National Clean Energy Week: Re-education Please

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 16, 2025
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Energy & Environmental Review: September 15, 2025

By -- September 15, 2025
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