Over the last three years, California lawmakers and regulators have struggled to balance energy security with the state’s aggressive decarbonization agenda. Nowhere is this more evident than California’s repeated attempts to remove – and then reinstate – natural gas from the state’s power generation mix, all at the expense of consumers. In the latest episode
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
Read More...Climate Action Council Tells Upstate NYers to Just Drop Dead Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Kathy Hochul’s Climate Action Council, on the eve of the worst cold disaster Upstate has experienced in years, proposes diving into the empty green energy pool,
Read More...RGGI Is A Failure, All Hat and No Cattle Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: RGGI achieves little or nothing and can be labelled a gigantic failure. Pennsylvania has been dragged into it by virtue signaling trust-funder Tom Wolf. End it!] Normally
Read More...Methane Obsession: New York’s Dark and Dangerous Phobia Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York State has a very dangerous and nightmarish phobia over methane that is sadly leading it to jump out of the energy airplane without a parachute.] One
Read More...Climate Act Benefits Mostly Imaginary But Costs Will Be Real Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: A utopian “Clean Heat for All Challenge” plan advanced by New York agencies to implement the state’s Climate Act shows us benefits are few but costs are real.]
Read More...Climate Misinformation Yields Big Lie on What Is Dangerous Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: It is profound climate misinformation to suppose global warming is such a threat that any action, no matter how risky, is somehow preferable to doing nothing.] I
Read More...Thruway EV Charging Dilemma: NY Jumping Without A Parachute! Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Empire State Gov. Kathy Hochul is making promises New York cannot keep as her proposal to charge EVs along the Thruway reveals a stunning incapacity to do so.]
Read More...Hochul Obsession with Climate Leadership Will Harm New York Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is obsessed with being a “climate leader.” That’s what political correctness demands in the Empire State and New Yorkers will pay.] The
Read More...California Is No Model, So Why Does New York Still Mimic It? Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: California is the last place any state should look for ideas unless programmed failure is the objective, but that’s exactly what New York looks
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Roger looks at where the Empire State stands with its climate goals and concludes the only realistic hope is to repeal the CLCPA right now.] On July 18, 2019 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), which establishes
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Roger studies the status of climate science in his home state, where politician Andrew Cuomo determines what is a climate emergency.] In response to the Biden administration’s “World Climate Summit” there have been multiple summaries of the state of climate science, the alleged
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s Community and Climate Investment Act (CCIA) is unfolding as a financial hit on New Yorkers who will face new carbon taxes.] In the spring of 2021, the New York state Senate introduced the Climate and Community Investment Act (CCIA). Coming on the heels
Read More...Natural gas has long been a critical component of our energy mix, and U.S. consumers recognize the value of an environmentally friendly resource that is both reliable and affordable. As cities begin to consider bans on natural gas connections in new buildings, however, a new Morning Consult poll reflects a distinct split in public opinion
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