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According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the U.S. generates more electricity between January 2024 and April 2025 than it was in the same period in 2024. [emphasis, links added] According to EIA data and expert analysis shared by the Daily Caller News Foundation, coal generation rates climbed nearly 25% in early 2024 compared to the same window in 2024. Despite former President Joe Biden President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders to boost the coal industry, while his administration targets increasingly large coal-fired power plants rules to secure the grid. “The increase in coal generation reflects…
A UN climate expert called on people to question the goal of avoiding climate disasters by rapidly eliminating criminal penalties for fossil fuels. [emphasis, links added] Experts who will be subject to these penalties say the call for censorship is part of a broader, growing effort to stop people from opposing the political agenda of climate activists. “It seems very hopeless. I find that we can't debate what we're talking about solving science. If this is so convincing, then you certainly don't need to be jailed for their consent,” said Matt Wielicki, a geologist and author.Irrational fearAlternative, tell Just news.…
pass Grist and WBEZa public radio station that serves the Chicago metropolitan area. The grasslands in America are so huge and so strange that they destroy understanding. Newcomers of seemingly endless grasslands once crossed about a quarter of North America, often hitting the psychological wall and falling into mania. This phenomenon is well known that the madness of the prairie was recorded by journalist EV Smalley in 1893, after a decade of observation of life at the border: “Among the peasants and their wives, the new prairie country has had a shocking insanity.” The treeless, isolated expansion of the United…
Transcript: Over the past decade, midnight sun has been helping remote communities in Lake Colville in Canada’s Arctic reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. Codzi: “By fuel, it's coming – these things are not sure. We can be sure that the sun will shine and the wind will blow.” For years, all power in Lake Colville came from generators that burn diesel fuel, said David Codzi, a resident. But bringing diesel to isolated communities is difficult. In summer, you can only visit by plane. In winter, fuel, food and supplies arrive on trucks hundreds of miles on the ice, which…
In a stainless steel plant on the edge of Sheffield, Christian Brüggmann's job is to keep everything running. [emphasis, links added] Owned by Italian manufacturer Marcegaglia, the factory is the only remaining plant of its kind in the UK, producing primary stainless steel used in everything from pipes to cutlery. However, in recent years, Brugman has been spending more and more time instead of focusing on production, but rather worrying about other things: high electricity prices. “It has been a roller coaster journey since Covid began,” said Brugman, head of German operations at the facility. “In a day, your price…
In their recent articles “June is the new July: Why summer calories come sooner,” Washington Post (WAPO) claims: “Heat waves in Canada, the United States and the Nordic countries are part of a dangerous new climate model in recent days.” This narrative is false, or at best misleading. [emphasis, links added] The data do not show a meaningful trend for earlier or more intense heat waves worldwide. There is evidence that much of the increase in early seasonal heat can be attributed to urban heat island (UHI) effects and misunderstandings about regional variability rather than any shocking global change. “In…
Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom claims that “a big, beautiful bill” will soar on Sunday, seemingly ignoring the state's taxpayers flooded under some of the highest U.S. utility bills [emphasis, links added] Newsom raised X and listed several of his grievances in the Republican settlement bill, including concerns that its passage would lead to higher electricity costs, as it would limit subsidies for green energy. According to experts in multiple reports and energy departments, California’s energy prices are some of the highest energy prices in the United States. “The cost of electricity could increase by 30%,” Newsom said of GOP…
Heidi Badenock starts to worry whenever it rains or winds blow. “It's just the result of going through life-changing things,” the 35-year-old lawyer said. Life-changing events took place on July 1, 2024. Badenock is one of the 3.5 square mile Caribbean islands (9.1 square kilometers) in her family home on Union Island, one of the 32 islands and Cays in the southern Caribbean. Category 4 Hurricane Greenland Riverside River water drove into the island with a sustained wind of 150 mph (241 km/h) and left the island, with its structure above, its people destroyed. Beryl later became a Category 5…
Transcript: Imagine you are a whale. You are bigger than the school bus and spend time swimming in the Arctic. Maybe you have been in history for over a century. Davin: “That means you remember that the only noise in the ocean in your habitat comes from winds, sea ice and waves, and all kinds of clicks, whistles and songs created by other wildlife.” But Sam Davin of the World Wildlife Foundation in Canada said today that the Arctic is no longer so quiet. It is filled with drones of ship propellers and air gun explosions for oil and gas…
The Senate has carried out a series of blows to solar and wind in the latest version of President Donald Trump’s “One Big and Beautiful” bill (OBBB), removing a page from the script of House Republicans to undercut former President Joe Biden’s outstanding green energy tax credit in the former president. [emphasis, links added] The Senate’s new proposal will raise deadlines for solar and wind projects, hoping to obtain production and investment tax credits by requiring power generation by the end of 2027. The additional cuts to the green energy tax credit are within the public scope of the president’s…