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Regulators expand their authority, play politics with carbon at ratepayer expense 0
- June 19, 2017
By Brit Naas In a decision that evokes former President Obama’s environmental agenda, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) on March 23, 2017, expanded its authority in a way that’s likely to drive up electricity rates. Every four years, Xcel Energy undergoes a resource planning process that outlines their ability to meet ratepayers’ electricity demand.READ MORE
Fawning media can’t hide the failure of subsidy-rich solar 0
- June 16, 2017
The corporate favoritism through subsidies showered on wind and solar by governments has been significant.
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Which enviros not to take seriously 0
- June 13, 2017
by Jon Caldara The bad news: President Donald Trump’s pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord will cause ocean levels to rise. The good news: It will be from all the crocodile tears of progressives. Those of us who are skeptical of the politics of global warming are labeled “deniers” as an ugly pejorative to
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The unknown health risks of living in Big Wind’s shadow 0
- June 11, 2017
For those living in the shadow of industrial wind farms, it’s like being in the dark.
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Glitzy headlines can’t hide the failure of subsidy-rich solar 0
- May 31, 2017
Despite billions in taxpayer subsidies, the United States currently generates less energy from solar and wind, the darlings of government favoritism, than it did from renewables in 1950.
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Are Industrial Wind Farms Harmful?0
- April 19, 2017
Two issues surround whether industrial wind is the healthy alternative energy source some claim it to be. Both issues involve noise created from the constant turning of industrial blades: there is an obvious audible sound and a more subtle infrasound. These sound issues, audible sound and infrasound, are known to cause sleep disturbances and other
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