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Jan 2017

Watch out, Mr. President. The environmentalists are coming for you

Jazz Shaw Jan 30, 2017 8:31 PM

Run for the hills… or the windmills

Jun 2016

The next “green” plan: Have the feds seize coal plants and shut them down

Jazz Shaw Jun 05, 2016 9:31 AM

This is somehow eminent domain…

Apr 2016

Failed college wind turbine investment produces roughly 100 to 1 negative ROI

Jazz Shaw Apr 28, 2016 12:01 PM

Other people’s money

Welcome to Green Energy Poverty Week

Jazz Shaw Apr 21, 2016 9:21 AM

Earth Day isn’t good for people

Mar 2016

Why “green energy” people actually mean “no energy”

Jazz Shaw Mar 29, 2016 8:01 AM

“…like giving a machine gun to an idiot child.”

Oct 2015

The confused carbon profile of a massive solar power plant

Jazz Shaw Oct 20, 2015 5:21 PM

Clean energy! Er… sort of?

Californians upset that they can’t sell their green energy homes

Jazz Shaw Oct 19, 2015 12:01 PM

Failure to plan ahead

John Kasich renews push for strict “green energy” mandates

Jazz Shaw Oct 06, 2015 8:01 AM

Expensive and foolhardy

Jun 2015

College divestment from fossil fuels is largely “window dressing”

Jazz Shaw Jun 23, 2015 1:21 PM

Hard to divest what you’re not invested in

Mar 2015

Another fat “green” loan to an Obama connected company

Jazz Shaw Mar 31, 2015 5:21 PM

Money for nothing and your chips for free

Feb 2015

The Democrats’ green energy dream is becoming their nightmare

Noah Rothman Feb 15, 2015 2:01 PM

A few eggs.

Obama’s $4B “clean power” slush fund is likely unconstitutional

Jazz Shaw Feb 03, 2015 8:01 AM

Give and take. But mostly take.

Jan 2015

Hawaii learns that going solar isn’t as easy as it sounds

Jazz Shaw Jan 20, 2015 1:21 PM

Running on empty

Nov 2014

Obama, Xi Jinping agree to more “carbon limiting” action

Jazz Shaw Nov 12, 2014 8:01 AM

That’s just great

Oct 2014

Half of Americans willing to pay zero additional dollars for EPA carbon regs

Jazz Shaw Oct 24, 2014 8:41 AM

Nope

Aug 2014

Uh oh: California solar plant fries thousands of birds in mid-flight

Mary Katharine Ham Aug 18, 2014 10:01 PM

Streamers.

Jun 2014

Germany, of all places, is holding back the EU’s emissions deal — and France wants to follow suit for some reason

Erika Johnsen Jun 20, 2014 3:21 PM

What the what?

Is Germany finally ready to keep the green dream alive by fracking?

Erika Johnsen Jun 05, 2014 8:01 PM

Join us.

More shots fired in the ongoing solar-powered trade dispute between China and the U.S.

Erika Johnsen Jun 03, 2014 8:41 PM

Thanks a lot, “green” energy.

May 2014

United Nations probably none too pleased with Australia’s new, less climate-change-minded budget plan

Erika Johnsen May 23, 2014 2:41 PM

“Australia risks being embarrassed by global leaders who are determined to take action, like German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Barack Obama.”

Congress once again circling back to the wind production tax credit that refuses to quit

Erika Johnsen May 16, 2014 1:21 PM

Ugh.

Germany’s version of The Daily Show lampoons their failed green-energy transition

Erika Johnsen May 10, 2014 7:01 PM

Oops.

This is why wind energy can neither have nor produce nice things

Erika Johnsen May 07, 2014 9:21 PM

Dependence.

Mar 2014

Lawmakers looking to renew the wind production tax credit that just won’t die

Erika Johnsen Mar 22, 2014 5:31 PM

Night of the living tax credit.

Podesta responds to the green lobby’s natural-gas complaints: Be cool, guys

Erika Johnsen Mar 20, 2014 8:01 PM

Green-on-green crime.

Globalist eco-progressives getting pretty excited about their prospects for that 2015 global climate treaty

Erika Johnsen Mar 01, 2014 1:01 PM

Here we go again.

Feb 2014

The world’s largest-ever solar thermal plant opens in California, courtesy of the Obama DOE

Erika Johnsen Feb 14, 2014 1:21 PM

The “Hoover Dam project of our time”? Er…

WaPo: Greens have drawn “the wrong line in the wrong sand” on Keystone XL

Erika Johnsen Feb 06, 2014 6:21 PM

Here’s yet another testament to the fact that, in the context of actually cutting carbon emissions, continuing to block the …

No, the wind industry hasn’t given up on their expired production tax credit

Erika Johnsen Feb 05, 2014 7:31 PM

Never give up, never surrender!

Obama’s next executive-action push: “Climate hubs” and sub-hubs? What?

Erika Johnsen Feb 05, 2014 1:41 PM

…Cool story, bro.

Jan 2014

Green groups feeling pretty upset about Keystone pipeline’s southern leg opening for business

Erika Johnsen Jan 22, 2014 4:41 PM

You mad?

European Commission to Britain: Yeah, we’re going to need you to get rid of those wind-farm subsidies

Erika Johnsen Jan 07, 2014 5:21 PM

Awkward.

Oops: Europe’s rising and renewable-driven energy prices are causing a coal resurgence

Erika Johnsen Jan 06, 2014 3:21 PM

Irony.

Dec 2013

Wind industry performing their traditional pre-tax credit expiration scramble

Erika Johnsen Dec 26, 2013 1:01 PM

Under the wire.

Yikes: Germany under investigation for their green-energy policies

Erika Johnsen Dec 19, 2013 5:01 PM

Oops.

Big Wind wins protection from eagle-death prosecutions, but the production tax credit is still up in the air

Erika Johnsen Dec 10, 2013 7:41 PM

The blowback.

Obama administration finally holds a wind company accountable for eagle deaths

Erika Johnsen Dec 02, 2013 6:01 PM

Double standards.

Nov 2013

About that failed Fisker loan costing U.S. taxpayer $130+ million? Scratch that. It might be way more.

Erika Johnsen Nov 25, 2013 7:01 PM

On Friday, I mentioned that it seems that the odyssey of fail that was the Obama administration’s commitment to “investing” …

Oh, good: Energy Department finally sells of Fisker auto loan, and at only a $139 loss

Erika Johnsen Nov 22, 2013 6:01 PM

Going, going, gone.

Big Ethanol suddenly pretty upset about the EPA’s legal vagaries

Erika Johnsen Nov 22, 2013 4:01 PM

The Big Ethanol lobby has been having a rough go of it lately, what with the Associated Press publishing a …

Drama: Yet another round of United Nations climate talks ends in a mass walkout

Erika Johnsen Nov 21, 2013 2:01 PM

Resistance is futile.

Australian ministers: We’ve had just about enough of this “socialism masquerading as environmentalism”

Erika Johnsen Nov 11, 2013 4:51 PM

Called out.

Horror of horrors: Wind industry might have to deal with a lapse in their production tax credit

Erika Johnsen Nov 05, 2013 3:21 PM

All the wind industry wanted for Christmas last year was a continuation of the much-prized production tax credit on which …

Oct 2013

Obama admin’s green-energy “investments”: Saving the environment, one abandoned toxic sludge heap at a time

Erika Johnsen Oct 31, 2013 4:41 PM

You may recall the exceptionally unsuccessful saga of Abound Solar, one of the Obama administration’s pet “green”-energy stimulus projects second …