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The "Greens" promise renewables, solar and wind power, will replace fossil fuels. After all, the wind and sun are free, and they don't pollute!...

After three decades, maybe it is time to admit the obvious: Wind and solar are niche energy sources that will probably never, provide anywhere near the energy we need to sustain, much less grow, our $22 trillion modern industrial economy.

The recent conviction of a Massachusetts man offers a cautionary tale on where government schemes to promote green energy can lead.

By James M. Hohman Michigan’s business subsidy programs are ineffective at creating jobs, unfair to the businesses that don’t get them and expensive to the...

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is pushing the same types of subsidies and support for wind and solar energy as national policy, that failed to generate jobs or energy in Michigan when she was Governor.

A proposal in the Washington Senate, the Climate Commitment Act, would create a cap-and-trade scheme designed to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions in the state to “net zero” by 2050. It would make everything more expensive.

The government should not prop up any energy source, and should instead allow competitive markets to meet America’s energy needs. However well intentioned, tax subsidies look more like corporate welfare for politically connected industries, and much less effective at spurring a dominant, world-class energy sector.

Illinois Clean Energy Jobs Act would increase energy costs in the state by forcing state utilities to produce 45 percent of their electricity generated from “renewable” sources by 2030 and 100 percent by 2050.

Senators should pose some hard questions to former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm before confirming her to head the U.S. Department of Energy, concerning her plans for future federal support for green energy projects in the light of her poor performance picking green energy winners and losers as Governor.

The $2.3 trillion, 5,593 page combined Coronavirus relief, omnibus government funding bill passed by Congress contained expensive climate and energy provisions unconnected to corona relief or essential government functions.