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Senate Bill 1278, sponsored by state Sen. Kelly Hancock (R-Fort Worth), would require Texas wind and solar companies to pay the costs for backup or supplemental power needed whenever they cannot deliver electricity reliably to the grid.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2021 Greenhouse Gas Inventory , released in early April, revealed total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States decreased by 1.7 percent from 2018 to 2019.

By J.P. Koning By design, cryptocurrencies such as Dogecoin, Litecoin, and Bitcoin are expensive, energy-intensive products. Because they are expensive, cryptocurrencies shouldn’t be very popular...

President Joe Biden’s new tax proposal contains provisions that would end common business tax credits for fossil fuel companies, which the Biden administration refers to as subsidies. The tax proposal would also provide additional extended federal support for select renewable energy technologies.

Ignoring the express will of the voters, legislators in the Washington Senate have offered a bill to establish a carbon-dioxide tax of $25 per-metric-ton on use and sale of most fossil fuels in the Evergreen State beginning in 2022.

Banning fracking ignores sound science in favor of a false choice between environmental quality and natural gas. With the increase of natural gas consumption, particularly in power generation, the U.S. has reduced carbon dioxide emissions to their lowest levels in a generation.

Electric vehicle mandates and subsidies harm the environment, working conditions, prosperity and efficient travel needs.

Facing increasingly strict state regulation and the threat of new taxes, Texas oil and gas producers have banded to together to develop ways and co-ordinate efforts to reduce the routine flaring of natural gas.

A report from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy says banning fracking would cost millions of jobs, result in trillions of in lost gross domestic product and labor income, dramatically increase gasoline prices and electricity bills, and increase emissions of carbon dioxide and various pollutants.

By Kimberly James The Texas Legislature is considering implementing "sin taxes" to help boost the state's coffers as it recovers from the slowdown brought on...