‘Electrify Everything’ advocates are once again attempting to circumvent voters to pass backdoor natural gas bans. That’s because time and again voters have expressed that they want consumer choice when it comes to how they heat their homes and cook their food. In fact, many Americans want to keep their gas stoves. Source: Grist, December
Read More...The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has vacated the Department of Energy’s efficiency standards for commercial boilers. According to the panel of judges, “the DOE again failed to offer a sufficient explanation in response to the comments [from petitioners] challenging a key assumption in its analysis.” Assumptions Come Undone This is
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, April 28, 1923! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, January 13, 1923! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100
Read More...Victory came for New Jersey residents and businesses earlier this month when the state’s controversial boiler electrification mandate was dropped from the Department of Environmental Protection’s PACT rules. Costly for energy consumers and building developers alike, the regulation had been intended to go into effect on December 6. The department failed seek input from lawmakers
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, October 7, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100
Read More...High efficiency natural gas furnaces could soon be on the chopping block if a proposed new rule from the Department of Energy is implemented. The proposed rules would raise minimum efficiency standards from 80 percent today to 95 percent efficiency by 2029. If approved, it would ban cost-effective and highly efficient natural gas furnaces in
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, June 10, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100
Read More...For decades, the natural gas industry has addressed customer demand for increased energy efficiency by incorporating incentives and partnering with the federal government. The resulting improvements have been a benefit to consumers, who want to save on their energy bills, and for businesses worried about their carbon emissions. The Department of Energy (DOE) should review
Read More...Heat Pumps Roger Caiazza (on the subject of)Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Heat pumps are useful in some situations but they can’t store energy or work without a backup, which is why they are no replacement for reliable natural gas.] On July 18, 2019 New York Governor Andrew
Read More...A lot of Americans prefer gas appliances, and for good reason: Natural gas is reliable, affordable, and for those that love to cook, it outperforms when creating their favorite dishes. Yet, a recent Mother Jones article attempts to make the case that somehow “the fossil fuel industry convinced Americans to love gas.” The article misrepresents
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. Will Tree-Sitting Pipeline Opponents Be Dragged Down? Two and half years after we ran a contest here about how to best
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … AREGCBA is nothing short of a climate refugee creator, the environmental impact from the wind turbines and solar panels will be staggering. This post summarizes the comments I submitted on the draft regulations proposed by the New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting to implement the Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Congress is up to no good. The American Energy Innovation Act, paraded as bipartisan, is nothing but green virtue signaling and dangerous. The 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution says the following: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it
Read More...Gibraltar on Monday opened a liquefied natural gas regasification terminal, moving the British territory away from diesel-fuel power, Kallanish Energy reports. The project comes as part of Gibraltar’s effort to power its homes and businesses with cleaner energy. The 80-megawatt power plant was built by Anglo-Dutch giant Shell and its fully owned subsidiary Gasnor, which is also
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