Last October, New Jersey’s brand-new Attorney General Matt Platkin filed a climate lawsuit following years of activist pressure in the state. Platkin quickly retained Sher Edling, the law firm representing nearly two dozen plaintiffs in climate lawsuits on a contingency fee basis, while simultaneously accepting outside funds from billionaires and Hollywood stars. Although the contingency fee arrangements in
Offshore Wind Projects Violate Marine Mammal Protection Act? David Wojick, PhD Journalist and Independent Policy Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: The offshore wind debacle continues as government ignores project developers who may well be violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act and killing whales.] New evidence says that offshore wind sonar surveys may have committed
Wind Debacles Drive Northeast Blowhards to Beg Biden David Wojick, PhD Journalist and Independent Policy Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: Six blowhard governors from the Northeast who are stuck with offshore wind debacles are begging Joe Biden for our money to rescue themselves from their bragging.] Six Atlantic shore Governors are begging the Feds
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, September 22, 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. It’s fun and illuminating to look back 100 years ago at what
Zombie Radicals Stop An Almost Finished Compressor Station Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Zombie radicals, a/k/a communists, fractivists, and other destructive leftists, have managed to temporarily halt an almost done pipeline compressor station in New Jersey.] New Jersey is a Communist state, controlled by Communists from the
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is rolling full steam ahead with his electrification initiative, without considering the voices of opposition ringing throughout the state. With the release of the second iteration of its Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Strategic Funding Plan last month, New Jersey continues to push its aggressive agenda aimed at shifting its
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – August 12, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone 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. This week: Kathy Hochul admits battery storage isn’t safe, Goldman-Sachs Governor Phil Murphy is confused or
Corporatist Climate Crusaders Go After New Jersey Gas Stoves Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Goldman Sachs alumnus and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy goes after your gas stoves and other appliances to steer more money his way with corporatist climate scam.] When a government bureaucrat says, “We’re
Environmental Justice for Whom? Pennsylvania Goes PC! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. [Editor’s Note: Environmental justice is a completely phony concept that does precisely nothing for the intended beneficiaries and, in fact, only makes it harder to help them.] Government is nothing if not faddish; that is to say vulnerable to those
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – July 15, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone 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. This week: fossil fuel use is growing, renewables require raising the price caps so you pay
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – July 8, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone 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. This week: junk science that blinds ideologues, corporatism on parade through the UK and here, stopping
NESE Still Lives in the Deep Waters of NJ and NY Politics Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: NESE, the pipeline, not the monster, is still alive but trapped below the deep waters of New Jersey and New York politics, which subservient to elitist causes.] It’s time to
Offshore Wind: The Boondoggle with All Pain, No Gain! David Wojick, PhD Journalist and Independent Policy Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: New Jersey, obsessed with an offshore wind energy fantasy is embarking on hugely expensive experiment that is unlikely to reduce any greenhouse gas emissions.] There is a common assumption that offshore wind electricity
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – May 6, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone 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. This week: Big Ugly Green Grifters (BUGGs) invade the beaches of Delaware and New Jersey as
This blog is the second in a three-part series highlighting new revelations in New Jersey that shed further light on the climate litigation campaign. Read the first blog on CCI’s entrenchment at the local level here. Just weeks after being confirmed by the state legislature in October 2022, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s first
