CLCPA Legislation Spurred by Cuomo Should Be Repealed!

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

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Newsom Fracking and Oil Ban Will Make California Ever Less Self-Reliant

germany … …[Editor’s Note: There are so, so many awful governors with no moral compass other than political correctness and control. Gavin Newsom is among the worst.] California Governor Gavin Newsom recently ordered state agencies to stop issuing new fracking permits by 2024 and to look for ways to phase out oil extraction by 2045, despite his

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Renewable Fortune Making at the Taxpayer Trough Is Driving Environmentalism

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The potential for renewable fortune making trillions off ratepayers and taxpayers is driving both energy policy and environmentalism. Anyone who has followed this blog at all over the last eight years knows what most people following energy policy and environmentalism today don’t want to know; that it’s really

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Green Fraud and Why No One Wants to Talk About It

 Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Robert Bradley provides a review of Marc Morano’s new book: Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse Than You Think.] “Let’s expose this dangerous charade. The Green New Deal is not green. It’s

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Climate Emergency in New York? What Climate Emergency?

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

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FERC Told to Stop Playing Politically Correct Games with Pipelines

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Some 25 United States Senators, including three Democrats, have warned FERC and its politically correct chair to knock off the games.] If the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) thinks it is going to change the rules for how it approves existing, already-filed applications for pipelines, it needs

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – May 1, 2021

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. We Need More CO2, Not Less!. This 23-minute video is from 2015 but extremely relevant today as the U.S. is treating

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Industrial Wind Health Issues Aren’t Blowing Away Quickly

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Robert Bradley looks at the subject of industrial wind projects and their impacts on human health, using a Victoria, Australia example] MasterResource has followed the growing issue of negative health effects of industrial wind turbines.

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GHG Emissions Intensity by Cabot Reduced 58% Last Year

George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. [Editor’s Note: Cabot Oil and Gas is reducing GHG emissions intensity by an astounding 58% in 2020 compared to 2019 — a huge achievement that says so much!] When you’re a natural gas operator, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG emissions) are top of mind. Identifying areas of

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Drilling Isn’t Rocket Science, It’s Much More Complicated!

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Drilling, hydraulic fracturing and geoscience are very complicated science, arguably much more so than Elon Musk’s rocket science! Elon Musk’s space adventures get all the media attention but one only need to think about a bit to realize modern oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing represent a

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – April 24, 2021

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. A Tiny Dose of Reality on CO2, Please! Our friend Gordon Tomb, Senior Advisor to the CO2 Coalition, reports on the

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Trolley Trail Opens with Help of the Natural Gas Industry

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor’s Note: Cabot Oil & Gas and its suppliers helped open a new section of the Trolley Trail in Lackawanna and Wyoming Counties recently.] Though the ceremony had to be put off for a year, it was still exciting to gather in LaPlume on Monday to mark the

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RGGI Approach to Reducing Carbon Will Cost New Yorkers $92 Billion!

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: RGGI is no solution to anything. It’s going to cost New Yorkers some $92 Billion, in fact, for nothing more than green virtue signaling.] he New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) report New York’s RGGI-Funded Programs Status Report – Semiannual Report

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Earth Day Is A Reason to Celebrate Today, Not Whine!

Alexander StevensPolicy AnalystInstitute for Energy Research …. … … [Editor’s Note: Earth Day should be a celebration of progress, innovation, markets and growth, not a whiny attack on all of it, as too many would have it.] Despite repeated pronouncements and predictions of doom and gloom by environmentalists, there are a lot of reasons to

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