Energy & Environmental Newsletter: June 4, 2018

By John Droz, Jr. 

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

Study: Wind turbines increase the dependence on fossil fuel plants

Current government renewable energy policies actually benefit fossil fuels

Visualizing the U.S. Clean Air Success Story

NYS’s Green Energy Roulette

Following passage of good wind law, wind developer loses interest in NY town

Renewable Energy Use In Europe Didn’t Stop CO2 Levels From Rising

From Russia With Love

Military review requirement added to Oklahoma wind development process

Is 100% Renewable Energy Possible?

If Renewables Are So Great for the Environment, Why Do They Keep Destroying It?

Wind Turbines vs Bats — and the Health Consequences

Rethinking Wind Energy

‘Green’ Energy’s Poisonous Legacy: Millions of Toxic Turbine Blades Destined for African Landfills

Three New and Useful Speeches On Energy Finance

NY Task Force Examines Carbon Pricing Impacts

Superior: Reclaiming Environmentalism

Democrats’ dark money and the climate industrial complex

Hippocratic Oath vs. ‘Hypocritic’ Oath?

EPA Leads in Open Science

Study: China, India outsource emissions, risking climate goal

Is the political class’s obsession with global warming rotting their brains?

Pruitt Interview re Paris Peace Accord Decision

Physicist: Climatologists Giving Science a Bad Name

Woods Hole Climatologist Gives False Evidence To Congress

Six new studies conclude that climate models are worthless

40 New Scientific Papers Say Global Warming Does Not Exist

Greed Energy Economics

Cycling of conventional power plants: Technical limits and actual costs

Three New and Useful Speeches On Energy Finance

NY Task Force Examines Carbon Pricing Impacts

Divesting From Fossil Fuels Is Harder Than Green Groups Thought

California’s solar rooftop mandate doesn’t make economic sense

This Is How Germany Perfected the Free-Electricity Model

Is a wind project worth $65 per person?

Electric rates going up again: grid constraints and green energy are culprits

Now May Be the Best Time to Give Your Wind Turbine a Makeover

Chevron wins $38m from Environmentalists behaving badly

Turbine Health Matters

MN administrative law judge says PUC should reject wind project

Wind Turbines vs Bats — and the Health Consequences

Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems

If Renewables Are So Great for the Environment, Why Do They Keep Destroying It?

Rethinking Wind Energy

‘Green’ Energy’s Poisonous Legacy: Millions of Toxic Turbine Blades Destined for African Landfills

Activists warn of threat to birds from wind power

Birding group opposes Lake Erie wind turbines

Here’s How Renewable Energy Actually Hurts The Environment

GenX concerns cloud possible expansion of solar facility

If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste?

The EPA and PFAS (including GenX in solar panels)

Miscellaneous Energy News

Study: Wind turbines increase the dependence on fossil fuel plants

Current government renewable energy policies actually benefit fossil fuels

Visualizing the U.S. Clean Air Success Story

NYS’s Green Energy Roulette

Following passage of good wind law, wind developer loses interest in NY town

Renewable Energy Use In Europe Didn’t Stop CO2 Levels From Rising

From Russia With Love

Military review requirement added to Oklahoma wind development process

Is 100% Renewable Energy Possible?

Cuomo’s Wind Projects won’t fly without fracking

Testimony before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee

Russian efforts to disrupt U.S. energy markets exposed

The Wind Energy Fiasco- Writ Large

Texas military facility and a regional wind project

The start of the death-spiral for old wind projects in Europe

Report: Costly Electric Vehicles Hardly Do Anything To Help The Environment

Real Russian collusion the Dems and Main-stream Media ignore

UK Announces More Measures to Support Shale Development

Europe grapples with Dutch gas production ‘collapse’

Bad news for green energy lovers: US oil & gas are booming

Rehearing results in minor change to Cassadaga (NY) project certificate

Germany Faces Gigawatt-Scale Loss of Onshore Wind Power

Regarding Wind Energy Impacts: The Definition of Community

Apex’s windy disinformation campaign ignores reality

Speculative climate chaos v. indisputable fossil fuel benefits

Will batteries do for wind what they’re doing for solar?

Austin political operative accused of high jinks by Oklahoma official

Siemens Gamesa Makes Headway On Hybridization Of Renewable Energy

How we create fossil fuel resources

If I were Ontario’s new Minister of Energy …

The Social Benefits of Fossil Fuels

Trump prefers energy dominance to Paris Agreement

DOE to conduct a study of vulnerabilities of US Power Grid System

Offshore Wind Energy

New film discusses issues with US offshore wind projects

One Well-Placed Hurricane Will Destroy Offshore East Coast Wind Turbines

How the ‘America-First Offshore Energy Strategy’ could bottom out

Massachusetts and Rhode Island announce large offshore wind projects

Eastern States Promote Expensive and High Risk Offshore Wind Systems

A divided NY community speaks about proposed offshore wind project

Will Offshore Wind Energy Deliver?

Manmade Global Warming Articles

Superior: Reclaiming Environmentalism

Democrats’ dark money and the climate industrial complex

Hippocratic Oath vs. ‘Hypocritic’ Oath?

EPA Leads in Open Science

Study: China, India outsource emissions, risking climate goal

Six new studies conclude that climate models are worthless

40 New Scientific Papers Say Global Warming Does Not Exist

Is the political class’s obsession with global warming rotting their brains?

Pruitt Interview re Paris Peace Accord Decision

Physicist: Climatologists Giving Science a Bad Name

Woods Hole Climatologist Gives False Evidence To Congress

UN climate talks stalled as developing countries demand $100 billion aid from richer nations

EPA Extends Comment Period on Proposed Rule to Strengthen Science Transparency in EPA Regulations

The $18-Billion Prize: The Dark Side of the Environmental Movement

FYI We Just Had Two Years Of Record-Breaking Global Cooling

James Cook University’s Hip Pocket Nerve

Archive: Flaws In Applying Greenhouse Warming To Climate Variability

You Wouldn’t Think Sea Level Is So Complex

EPA’s Scientific Advisory Board’s scheduled first meeting

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