Energy & Environmental Review: July 21, 2025

By -- July 21, 2025 No Comments

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.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** U.S. “renewables” mad scramble to waste billions is on
*** Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign Controlled Energy Sources
*** How the Interconnection Queue Could Make Qualifying for Tax Credits Next to Impossible
Making PJM all wind and solar would cost over $2.4 trillion in battery backup

Unreliables (General):
*** DOE: Existing US Energy Generation Retirements Increase Blackout Risk by 100x in 2030
*** Grid & Inertia
Green Lobby’s Dishonest Crusade for Solar and Wind
President Trump: Terminate The Green New Scam Now

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Wind Energy is an Environmental Disaster
Netherlands says no to offshore wind
Environmental group opposes Scotland offshore wind expansion

Nuclear Energy:
*** The Economic Imperative for Nuclear Power
*** Atomic Abundance and Its Enemies
Nuclear Chickens Come Home To Roost in NY

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** This 7% of Earth’s surface burns more fuel than anywhere

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Climate Fact Check: June 2025 Edition
*** Climate Activists Wipe Out While Surfing the Tragic Texas Flooding
Exposing the Media’s Greta Thunberg Narrative
I’m a Young Meteorologist Who Questioned the Idea of Man-Made Climate Change.

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Why Regulate Electricity? Two Exchanges (Giberson, Borlick)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 3, 2025 1 Comment

The intellectual and practical case for separating government and electricity is strong. The historical record offers little support for “market failure”–quite the opposite. The laws of physics do not preclude private ownership and control of assets in this area unless you assume mandatory open access–Lynne Kiesling’s Ostrom trick–to make private operation of control areas problematic. [1]

So I labor against faux classical liberals/think tanks that offer suggestion after suggestion to try to make government planned ISO/RTO’s work. But the fix is in with the guilty who refuse to seriously consider a free market in electricity.

Two exchanges with my critics follow. One is with Michael Giberson, a “Right” central planner; the other with Robert Borlick, a Progressive Left central planner.

Michael Giberson Exchange

Giberson posted on his regulatory filing:

The DOJ Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force requested comments on how state and federal regulations act to impair competition.

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Exposing Alaska’s Green New Deal (Part II)

By -- May 29, 2025 2 Comments

Editor’s Note: Trump Administration beware! This two-part backgrounder warns DOE Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin that their June 3, 2025, participation at Governor Mike Dunleavy’s fourth annual Sustainable Energy Conference is a set-up for Alaska’s Green New Deal. A course reversal for this state’s energy policy is in order.

Part II walks through my own testimony (Part I) against Alaska’s proposed Renewable Portfolio Standard; the hoops I had to jump through just to get my written remarks added to the public record; and the telling exchange I had with one of the main activists pushing this nonsense.  Spoiler: there’s been no official response or acknowledgement to the damning context they asked for—just the usual dodge-and-disappear routine.

After checking the Alaska Legislature website under the bill documents, I discovered my testimony was not posted. 

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Exposing Alaska’s Green New Deal (Part I)

By -- May 28, 2025 No Comments

Ed. Note: Alaska policymakers are selling out the state’s hydrocarbon abundance for a Green New Deal foisted by special interests that do not have consumers, taxpayers, or prosperity in mind. Trump Administration Officials visiting Alaska in two weeks are warned by energy expert Kassie Andrews in two parts (Part II tomorrow).

“… this isn’t about affordability or ‘sustainability’- it’s about control, green grift, and forcing Alaska into a ‘transition’ nobody voted for.”

The political class in Alaska is trying to sell the public on “cheap” renewables as the centerpiece of the state’s energy policy. We’ve all heard the line: Solar and wind are the cheapest sources of electricity on Earth. It’s the Green New Deal gospel repeated ad nauseam, designed to steamroll dissent and shut down debate.…

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Kiesling Likes Government Electricity Planning

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Nuclear Subsidies in Texas? Ouch!

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Peak Air Pollution: The Increasing Sustainability of Fossil Fuels

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 11, 2025 No Comments Continue Reading

“Save NOAA Stop DOGE” Climate Protest

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 28, 2025 12 Comments Continue Reading

The Great Texas Blackout (2021): When the Free Market Electricity Debate Began

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 24, 2025 No Comments Continue Reading

The Great Texas Blackout Revisited: Market Failure Not

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 14, 2025 2 Comments Continue Reading