By Robert Bradley Jr. “The only person who can truly persuade you is yourself. You must turn the issues over in your mind at leisure, consider the many arguments, let them simmer, and after a long time turn your preferences into convictions.” – Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose (1979), p. xii. I have
By Chris Woodward Six Democrats, including Delaware Valley state Senator John Kane (D- Chester, Delaware), helped pass a veto-proof bill to stop Gov. Tom Wolf from unilaterally putting Pennsylvania in the controversial Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). But that hasn’t ended Wolf’s quest to make the Keystone State part of the carbon cap-and-tax program. Senate
By Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow, CO2 Coalition and Competitive Enterprise Institute Governor Wolf’s Executive Order 2019-7 on addressing climate change in Pennsylvania is largely based upon the 2018 Pennsylvania Climate Action Plan. Therefore, my analysis is about that Plan. It suffers from serious problems that call into question the basis for the Governor’s
By Edgardo Gimenez Mazó The National Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC for its initials in Spanish) of Portugal confirmed last week that, since July 1, 2021, the issuance of commercial air transport tickets for passengers, departing from airports and aerodromes located in Portuguese territory, is subject to a carbon tax, in exchange for polluting emissions from
By Jude Clemente As our energy-climate discussion marches on, one of the most telling things is being played out this sweltering summer. Once again, U.S. natural gas is being shown as undeniably essential to our immense energy demand complex. First the overwhelming numbers: natural gas accounts for 45% of our power generation capacity, 40% of
By Lisa Whitley Coleman Several bills creating benefits and financing for carbon capture have been introduced in Congress and are seeing movement through bipartisan support. Carbon capture, also known as carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS), is the process of gathering carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, typically from sources such as coal-fired power plants. Once captured,
By Matthew Brown and Felicia Fonseca NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) — On oil well pads carved from the wheat fields around Lake Sakakawea, hundreds of pump jacks slowly bob to extract 100 million barrels of crude annually from a reservation shared by three Native American tribes. About half their 16,000 members live on the Fort
By Jude Clemente Thanks to fracking in the Marcellus shale, Pennsylvania has led a U.S. natural gas revolution since 2007. The state’s production has exploded almost 40-fold, to over 7,300 billion cubic feet, or 20% of the national total. Pennsylvania now ranks second only to Texas on this measure and yields more gas than any
By P. Gosselin As wildly fluctuating, weather-dependent green energies come increasingly online, German grid operators and the German Federal Audit Office are warning the German government of power blackouts. But the government is ignoring the warnings and continues to insist everything is fine. Grid operator 50Hertz, for example, warns of energy shortages as Germany continues
Highlights OPEC is ‘back in the driver’s seat’ on balancing market Oil, gas activity strong in Q2 but cost pressures rising Execs predict $70/b WTI, $3.10/MMBtu gas at end-2021 Underinvestment and a focus on the energy transition will create a global oil supply shortage in two to four years, according to three-quarters of US oil
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