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What can possibly unite these two items? Not only do they seem unrelated, but they also seem opposite. The first is from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It’s a graph…

This week Bloomberg Energy issued an attention-grabbing report on a serious waste problem with wind turbines: retired turbine blades are clogging up landfills. This problem is only going…

It’s a feature in reporting about solar energy to discuss how dramatically its costs have declined. That tends to be misleading because solar is a completely unreliable resource on its…

A pending major federal rule change could create a positive change for people’s electricity bills. That could be good news, especially for North Carolinians. This fall, the Federal Energy Regulatory…

Governor Cooper’s Executive Order 80 claims to seek reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to combat global warming. A major component of the order is the promotion of electric…

I have good news. It’s news so ridiculously underreported that a recent Civitas poll found that 44 percent of North Carolinians somehow believe the environment in North Carolina…

Sen. Bernie Sanders recently called climate change “an existential threat” and blamed it for last weekend’s deadly Alabama tornadoes. Gov. Roy Cooper testified before Congress that climate change…

Californians are going to wish their policymakers had learned one key lesson individual homeowners should know when it comes to dealing with the promises of renewable energy: do the…

Click here to view and here to listen to Jon Sanders discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — A report from a renewable energy industry group fails in its…

Click here to view and here to listen to Daren Bakst discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH– There’s no contest in the cost comparison between nuclear and solar power:…