New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recently announced budget deal includes the first statewide ban on natural gas appliances, blatantly disregarding the legislature’s previous rule to keep policy out of budget and removing residents’ say in the debate through the legislative process. In fact, the bill closes off the option for municipalities to opt out of
Read More...BEVs Have Issues Too and No ICE Means “Prepare to Pedal” Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog…. .… … [Editor’s Note: Heavy battery electric vehicles (BEVs) create many issues for roads and drivers AND ignored is the fact tailpipe emissions don’t even rise to
Read More...The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit just overturned California’s first natural gas ban – an ordinance passed by the City of Berkeley in 2019 – ruling that it is preempted by federal law. “The panel held that the Energy Policy and Conservation Act preempts the Berkeley ordinance. The panel wrote that, in
Read More...New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) is taking a second look at electrification as part of his new plans to accelerate the state’s climate ambitions and secure his title as “America’s greenest governor.” But his willingness to remove natural gas from homes and the state’s energy portfolio disregards affordable and reliable energy production at a
Read More...Claims that natural gas stoves are harming residential health are unrealistic and undermining decision-making aimed toward protecting human health, according to a recent report published by Catalyst Environmental Solutions (CES) and commissioned by the California Restaurant Association and the California Building Industry Association. The analysis finds natural gas is, “not a significant determinant of residential
Read More...Climate Act Lemmings Herd Up to Go Over the Cliff for Hochul Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Roger Caiazza confronts a Democrat Assembyman in Kathy Hochul’s New York and finds a Climate Act lemming determined to remain ignorant and loyal to
Read More...Upstate: City Folks Are Determined to Make You Pay! Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Upstate folks need to understand their New York City cousins have no desire to understand their lives and are determined to make them pay for their own
Read More...Gas Stove Bans: Everything You Need to Know To Fight Back Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Gas stove replacement fantasies are being pursued in places such the Emperor State with no accountability at all except to enforcers of political correctness.] Mention
Read More...Natural gas has proven to be an essential resource to deliver reliable, on-demand energy to consumers during extreme weather events. In the most recent event, Winter Storm Elliot, natural gas power generation supported intermittent renewable energy sources and supplied residents with the space heating needed to weather the extended freeze. Despite this, state and local
Read More...Solar Stooge Kathy Hochul Burns Farm Preservation Rulebook Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Rules of wokeness ever evolve. Yesterday’s pet cause is tomorrow’s dog to be kicked away and solar stooge Kathy Hochul is now kicking away farmland preservation.] I have
Read More...Authors of a recent study that has been touted by activists, the U.S. Energy Secretary and in media outlets across the country as justification for the Consumer Product Safety Commission to enact a federal gas stove ban have been forced to admit that their study does not actually find a causal link between using a
Read More...Amid the ongoing backlash to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) interview foreshadowing a gas stove ban earlier this week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced her plan to electrify buildings across the Empire State, preventing residents from having any gas appliances. The CPSC and White House have clarified that there is no plan
Read More...Headlines across the country this week are saying that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering a federal ban on natural gas stoves, following a Bloomberg interview with CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka, Jr. where he said: “This is a hidden hazard…Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be
Read More...The Pied Piper of Planet Ithaca Has No Clothes Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Bob Howarth, Cornell Professor of Ecology & Environmental Biology, acts as pied piper of Planet Ithaca when it comes to energy matters. How is that possible?] At
Read More...Shell Game Deceit Behind New York Climate Crack-Up Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York State is playing a silly but dangerous shell game with climate politics that will eventually come down hard on all innocent New York State citizens.] In
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