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Minnesota adopts clean cars standard that require more electric vehicles

  “Minnesota is the latest state — and the first in the Midwest — to adopt California’s stricter tailpipe emissions standards and mandate for automakers to get more zero-emission vehicles onto sales lots. The rules don’t take effect until Jan. 1, 2024, for 2025 models, so Minnesotans likely will not see an immediate burst of … [Read more…]

The Case for Climate-Change Realism

  “There is a long and infamous history of world leaders marking humanity’s “last chance” to avoid the ravages of man-made climate change. In 1989, for instance, the director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program warned that rising sea levels would cause entire nations to disappear if the global-warming trend were … [Read more…]

A pollen-friendly landscape takes root under the Minnesota solar panels

  “Sheep graze the grass in tall meadows, and their barks break quiet places, much like butterflies and insects fly around native flowers. The idyllic setting is not a restored prairie. This is a solar facility in the rural area of ​​Chisago County, one of 16 locations in Minnesota. Ener Green Power is a global … [Read more…]

Electrification Raises Concerns over Stranded Gas Assets, Customers

  “Colorado regulator Megan Gilman worries that the electrification of home heating could leave fewer natural gas customers paying increasingly high bills. But Consolidated Edison executive Marc Huestis told the Energy Bar Association’s annual meeting Wednesday that could be avoided by continued use of natural gas infrastructure for delivering low-carbon fuel. That’s the hope of … [Read more…]

Minnesota’s community solar program is leaving poorer people in the shade

  “Correction: The article has been updated to note the Emerge Second Chance Community Solar Garden is 180 kilowatts, not megawatts, and to address errors about Cooperative Energy Futures: The co-op has 900 members, 700 of whom subscribe to community solar, not 700 members. About 85 percent of their solar capacity serves residential customers, but … [Read more…]

Exposing the Eco-Activists’ ‘Greening’ of Pennsylvania in 2020

  “Summary: The Keystone State, an oil and natural gas powerhouse, is under siege by an alliance of well-organized, well-funded “green” activists. From cap-and-trade schemes meant to bleed ratepayers dry to fracking bans on one of Pennsylvania’s most vital industries, the environmental Left is fighting an all-out war to blanket the commonwealth with its antihuman … [Read more…]

The Worst Environmentalists in the World

  “On Saturday, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) withdrew its support for a climate debate among Democratic primary candidates, the result of a strange little media kerfuffle. One of the event’s cosponsors, the New Republic (full disclosure: I am at present writing for TNR), had published an article on Democratic primary candidate Pete Buttigieg … [Read more…]