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:
*** Dr.…

“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.…

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):
*** Renewable Energy Will Impoverish Humanity
*** Renewables still provided only 6% of global primary energy in 2025

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Duke axes North Carolina offshore wind lease
Massachusetts Wants Ratepayers to Rescue Offshore Wind

Wind Energy — Other:
Asbestos discovered in 1,000 Chinese made wind turbines

Nuclear Energy:
Department of Energy Celebrates Second Advanced Reactor Achieving Criticality

Fossil Fuel Energy:
Elon Musk Is Buying Up America’s Gas Turbines
Japan cuts LNG imports in favour of coal

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** Secretary Chris Wright’s arrival at the Department of Energy
A Tribute to Chris Wright as Private Citizen: Powerful Architect of Energy Humanism

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** The Most Morally Inverted Movement Ever
*** NET ZERO has become a religion
*** Bjorn Lomborg blasts implausible scenarios used to scare public
*** Europe’s Deadly Aversion to Air Conditioning
Climate change” was politicized early on – thanks to Al Gore
Another Pillar of Climate Advocacy Collapses
Vatican Newspaper Taints ‘Encounter of Faith and Reason’ with Climate Falsehood
Louisiana Did the Right Thing by Blocking Climate Lawfare

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
Dr.…

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:
*** We’re Winning the War on the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE)
*** Can solar and wind + batteries really provide 24/7/365 electricity?
What it really takes to meet the materialistic demands of the modern world

Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** Bonfires of the Batteries
Wyoming Rally: Save the Eagles, Stop Wind
When Wind Turbines Kill Wildlife, Environmentalists Look Away

Unreliables (General):*** The Eastern Power Grid Will Run Out of Emergency Peak Power in June, 2027 – Here’s Why You Must Prepare for Blackouts NOW

Wind Energy — General:
The Garroting of Big Wind
Interior in $765M offshore wind buy-out deal with Invenergy

Nuclear Energy:
*** Small nuclear is advancing rapidly
*** Would You Rather Live Near a Battery Energy Storage System or a Nuclear Plant?…