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Daily, politicians and pundits demand, or predict, an energy future that is entirely based on wind/solar and batteries, freed from the “burden” of the hydrocarbons. Regardless of one’s opinion about whether, or why, an energy “transformation” is called for, the physics and economics of energy combined show there is no possibility of anything resembling a radically “new energy economy” in the foreseeable future.

Coal plants in four states are keeping their plants online in order to prevent blackouts as green energy is creating problems for states’ electrical grids amid rising summer demand.

The reconciliation bill includes $3.2 billion in tax credits for carbon capture and sequestration, a technology that carries high costs, limited pipeline availability, and minimal chance for success.

As implausible as the inflation reduction staging of the Democrats’ pork-filled bill of special-interest fodder is, the claims being made about its effect on greenhouse gas emissions are pure fantasy.

By Daren Bakst, Preston Brashers, David Burton, Matthew Dickerson, Nina Owcharenko Schaefer, Richard Stern, and Parker Sheppard In the midst of a recession, with inflation...

Radical Green New Deal misleadingly named the Inflation Reduction Act is headed for budget reconciliation vote. Make no mistake, the so-called Inflation Reduction Act unveiled...

Way back when climate change was still called global warming, the whole thing was a bit more honest.

Remember how the world, especially the American media, fawned over former German Chancellor Angela Merkel? The adoration was so over the top that in 2015...

The Supreme Court's decision in West Virginia v. EPA, setting limits on the administrative state’s powers, is arguably the most consequential and far-reaching in years.

Here's an amazing but true statistic. After more than a decade of declining carbon emissions here in the United States, in 2021, President Joe...