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Massachusetts has historically supported several expensive green energy projects that have been found to raise utility costs, including offshore wind farms like Vineyard Wind and the abandoned Cape Wind project...

The presenters at the meeting were carefully chosen to further the Hochul Administration’s narrative that all is well with the Climate Act. Consider, for example, the presentation by Jeff Freedman to the Planning Board....

Soaring energy prices… regulations…35% of German companies say country is too hostile to business. 

"... The only word I can use to describe it is brutal. ..."

Obviously two major factors lie behind this bankruptcy: The lack of demand for EVs in Europe The impossibility of competing profitably with batteries made in China There is no prospect of either of these two challenges being...

The developing world must seize this opportunity to advocate for their financial autonomy. Central banks in poorer nations should choose to prioritize the well-being of their populations and ensure that global financial governance...

The green energy group, Breakthrough Energy, has laid off multiple workers and is also planning to eliminate its U.S. policy side, an anonymous source told Politico’s E&E News. Another anonymous source told the...

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been wondering how the Europeans can possibly afford to pay for all of the public benefits as well as putting big money into all…

The European Union is marching ahead with a sweeping expansion of its carbon market, a move that will push home heating and transportation costs to punishing new heights...

E, S, G does not cover core financial risks. We’re looking to assess financially-relevant environmental, social and governance factors, not financially-relevant financial factors.” Got that? Yup. It’s total hogwash.

As investors pull their money from failing clean energy ventures, the only question left is how much taxpayer money will be wasted before the political class admits defeat.

Despite Rigzone’s and The Telegraph’s apparent dismay that major oil companies are back-tracking on their net-zero goals and investments in renewables, for consumers and energy security the move is a boon...

Professor Dennis Wesselbaum thinks we should act on climate change - but economic harm is not a good justification for doing so.

BP’s green pivot has backfired spectacularly, hammering profits and leaving the company vulnerable to a hedge fund siege, writes Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.

House Republicans could be leaving hundreds of billions of dollars in potential savings on the table as the GOP conference works to finish a budget deal to extend expiring tax cuts and cut spending, according to one conservative...