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California’s Policy Responses Risks Worsening a Bad Situation
Based on the bills legislators are considering, policymakers are learning the wrong lessons. Consider SB 222 (the Affordable Insurance and Climate Recovery Act) introduced by state Sens. Scott Wiener and Sasha Renée Pérez. By allowing plaintiffs to sue oil and energy companies for the costs created by natural disasters, SB ...
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Growing LNG Exports Demonstrate The Benefits Of Deregulation
Less than three years ago, Germany was capping energy prices and considering rationing fuel as Europe scrambled to replace cheap Russian oil and natural gas. Today the German market is well supplied and, as of March 10, 2025, no shortages are anticipated. Transformative investments in U.S. based liquefied natural gas ...
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Put Up Your Nukes, California
An endling, the last member of an endangered species, lives above a cove in San Luis Obispo, County. Having endured on those grounds for four decades, it is likely to go extinct sometime in the 2030s. There is, however, a growing effort to not only save it, but to breed more ...
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President Trump Unleashes a New Energy Future Benefiting Americans
On January 20, the U.S. Department of Energy ended the Biden Administration’s misguided pause on processing new Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export applications. This is great news. The Biden policy never made sense and unwisely inhibited efforts to export more LNG, particularly to our EU trading partners. Read the entire ...
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Moss Landing Fire Shows Renewable Energy Exacts a Price, Too
“Our true goal is to guarantee safety for the community,” Assemblymember Dawn Addis said a week after the Moss Landing lithium-ion battery storage facility in Monterey County caught fire – and not for the first time – on Jan. 16. So alarmed was Addis that she introduced a bill that ...
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Why can’t California be more like Europe – and Puerto Rico?
While rational energy policies are being followed elsewhere, even in regions that had loudly and proudly gone “green,” California can’t kick its net-zero obsession. Or maybe the right word is “won’t,” because the state refuses to deviate from its reckless plans. Read the op-ed here:
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Read about wind energy's latest challenges
Should California Go Full Steam Ahead on Offshore Wind Farms? Latest Evidence Says No
One, the concept is untried on an industrial scale. Floating offshore wind turbines, which California believes will provide a full quarter of the state’s electric power by 2045, “is largely underdeveloped in the United States,” host Kevin Sliman says in an interview with two Penn State University Institute of Energy and ...
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When Ambition And Ideology Outpace Reality And Prudent Policymaking
Turns out the electric trucks aren’t selling well, so manufacturers will be able to build more diesel trucks than regulations were allowing them to. Yet again, the state tacitly acknowledges that its net-zero ambitions are unrealistic. It was a lesson learned late, though. Several states that followed the California model ...
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Desert Push for New Solar Farm Threatens Worker Health, Local Water Supply
In California’s never-ending effort to retain its self-awarded climate MVP trophy, thousands of acres near Desert Center, east of Palm Springs in Riverside County, will be “cultivated” to accommodate a solar farm. The Intersect Power project, centered on a 390-megawatt solar array with an adjacent battery storage site, was unanimously ...
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Learn more about rebates
Are rebates the best use of tax dollars?
Californians who meet specific income thresholds may be eligible to receive rebates of $4,000 and up to $8,000 if they buy electric heat pumps for their homes. But the Pacific Research Institute, a Pasadena think tank that espouses free-market solutions to policy matters, questions whether the rebate program is a good ...
California’s Policy Responses Risks Worsening a Bad Situation
Based on the bills legislators are considering, policymakers are learning the wrong lessons. Consider SB 222 (the Affordable Insurance and Climate Recovery Act) introduced by state Sens. Scott Wiener and Sasha Renée Pérez. By allowing plaintiffs to sue oil and energy companies for the costs created by natural disasters, SB ...
Growing LNG Exports Demonstrate The Benefits Of Deregulation
Less than three years ago, Germany was capping energy prices and considering rationing fuel as Europe scrambled to replace cheap Russian oil and natural gas. Today the German market is well supplied and, as of March 10, 2025, no shortages are anticipated. Transformative investments in U.S. based liquefied natural gas ...
Put Up Your Nukes, California
An endling, the last member of an endangered species, lives above a cove in San Luis Obispo, County. Having endured on those grounds for four decades, it is likely to go extinct sometime in the 2030s. There is, however, a growing effort to not only save it, but to breed more ...
President Trump Unleashes a New Energy Future Benefiting Americans
On January 20, the U.S. Department of Energy ended the Biden Administration’s misguided pause on processing new Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export applications. This is great news. The Biden policy never made sense and unwisely inhibited efforts to export more LNG, particularly to our EU trading partners. Read the entire ...
Moss Landing Fire Shows Renewable Energy Exacts a Price, Too
“Our true goal is to guarantee safety for the community,” Assemblymember Dawn Addis said a week after the Moss Landing lithium-ion battery storage facility in Monterey County caught fire – and not for the first time – on Jan. 16. So alarmed was Addis that she introduced a bill that ...
Why can’t California be more like Europe – and Puerto Rico?
While rational energy policies are being followed elsewhere, even in regions that had loudly and proudly gone “green,” California can’t kick its net-zero obsession. Or maybe the right word is “won’t,” because the state refuses to deviate from its reckless plans. Read the op-ed here:
Read about wind energy's latest challenges
Should California Go Full Steam Ahead on Offshore Wind Farms? Latest Evidence Says No
One, the concept is untried on an industrial scale. Floating offshore wind turbines, which California believes will provide a full quarter of the state’s electric power by 2045, “is largely underdeveloped in the United States,” host Kevin Sliman says in an interview with two Penn State University Institute of Energy and ...
When Ambition And Ideology Outpace Reality And Prudent Policymaking
Turns out the electric trucks aren’t selling well, so manufacturers will be able to build more diesel trucks than regulations were allowing them to. Yet again, the state tacitly acknowledges that its net-zero ambitions are unrealistic. It was a lesson learned late, though. Several states that followed the California model ...
Desert Push for New Solar Farm Threatens Worker Health, Local Water Supply
In California’s never-ending effort to retain its self-awarded climate MVP trophy, thousands of acres near Desert Center, east of Palm Springs in Riverside County, will be “cultivated” to accommodate a solar farm. The Intersect Power project, centered on a 390-megawatt solar array with an adjacent battery storage site, was unanimously ...
Learn more about rebates
Are rebates the best use of tax dollars?
Californians who meet specific income thresholds may be eligible to receive rebates of $4,000 and up to $8,000 if they buy electric heat pumps for their homes. But the Pacific Research Institute, a Pasadena think tank that espouses free-market solutions to policy matters, questions whether the rebate program is a good ...
