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The Not-In-My-Backyard (NIMBYs) movement around the globe from Germany to Australia, California, New York, and Massachusetts are speaking loudly, and acting, to put a halt to the invasion of noisy industrial wind facilities in their backyards.

The city council of Oakland, California voted unanimously to bar natural gas connections for new residential and commercial buildings in the city.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse behaves like Torquemada, recently saying if Democrats gain control of the Senate, they would launch investigations, haul climate realists before committees (for star-chamber show trials), and even employ grand juries and criminal prosecutions – to intimidate, silence and punish climate crisis nonbelievers.

Covid-19 has seen democratic governments exercising coercive powers over their citizens on a scale never imagined. Their justification: Your freedom is someone else’s risk of catching a potentially fatal disease. They are attempting to use a similar justification for state coercion on environmental protection: Your carbon footprint is my climate change.

Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden is lying when he says he won't ban fracking since the energy and climate plans he has signed on to require that fracking and all oil and gas production end to reach zero carbon dioxide emissions.

A new state-by-state analysis of the cost of transitioning the entire power supply to a 100 percent carbon dioxide emissions-free energy, made up largely of solar and wind power with battery backup, estimates the direct capital costs of such an effort would range between $18 trillion and $29 trillion.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) issued an executive order banning the sale of gasoline-powered passenger vehicles in 2035.

Smoke from California’s multiple wildfires added to the state’s electric power woes, reducing the amount of electricity generated by solar cells across the state, demonstrating the continued criticality of fossil fuels for reliable electric power generation.

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A co-op wholesale power supplier in Colorado and New Mexico announced a major shift from coal-fueled power plants to wind and solar industrial facilities in its electric power generation operations.