The COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, opened on Monday with a declaration that climate alarmism is still in vogue, even with President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House and a stern lecture for wealthy countries to stop thinking of climate funding for developing nations as “charity.”
Standard & Poor’s CRISIL analytics firm published a report on Wednesday that predicted India will become a major exporter of solar energy equipment by 2029.
Former President Donald Trump’s Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) suggests China is controlling most of the world’s solar panel supply chain, at Tuesday evening’s vice-presidential debate.
A U.S.-based residential solar panel company, part of whose goal is to “help the planet,” has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Wealthy homeowners received billions of dollars in tax credits, but “the poor are getting almost nothing under the same” Biden-Harris policy.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) is questioning the Pentagon’s plan to buy solar panels, emphasizing they must not be made in communist China.
A hailstorm that devastated a Texas solar farm has sparked concern within the surrounding community and among energy experts.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco next week and is scheduled to be the guest of honor at a dinner attended by hundreds of U.S. executives and business leaders.
Green energy stocks have dropped significantly in the last few months, underperforming compared to oil and gas companies, as high interest takes its toll.
“It is unrealistic to completely phase out fossil fuel energy,” China’s climate envoy Xie Zhenhua said at a press conference on Thursday.
The Commerce Department has found that Chinese solar manufacturers, protected by Joe Biden, are again successfully evading U.S. tariffs.
China state newspaper Global Times on Sunday called its pro-regime observers “widely pessimistic” and expecting “no concrete progress” as President Joe Biden’s special climate envoy, John Kerry, landed in Beijing for talks to address the alleged climate “crisis.”
President Joe Biden is bragging that his administration is building one of the world’s largest solar plants, not in the United States but rather in the Central African nation of Angola.
Eight Republicans helped Democrats tank an effort to override Biden’s veto of a bipartisan plan that would have restored U.S. tariffs on China-made solar panels.
A group of eight House Republicans joined the majority of Democrats to support President Joe Biden’s suspension of United States tariffs on suspected China-made solar panels. Nonetheless, a bill to reverse the tariff suspension passed the House with support from 209 Republicans and 12 Democrats.
President Joe Biden is doubling down on his suspension of United States tariffs on suspected China-made solar panels, vowing to veto a bipartisan plan that would reverse his tariff waivers.
During portions of interviews aired on Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Trade Executive Assistant Commissioner Annmarie Highsmith and Assistant Port Director for the Port of New York/Newark Edward Fox said that determining
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” host Brian Sullivan stated that with the solar industry, “it’s either buy from China with potential human rights violations or pray the U.S. solar industry can ramp up fast enough to meet demand, something
Four Republican lawmakers sent a letter this week to the heads of Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security expressing concern that the Inflation Reduction Act may encourage companies to import solar panels to America made in China by Uyghur slaves.
The U.S. government is reportedly turning to Canadian mining operations in a bid to break China’s stranglehold on vital mineral resources, especially lithium, cobalt, and manganese.
Chinese customs data reviewed by the South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Tuesday showed exports from the Xinjiang region to the United States nearly tripled year-on-year in September 2022, despite tougher scrutiny for forced labor imposed by the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA).
China’s state-run Global Times boasted that the Chinese solar panel industry has “gained a historic foothold in Europe” thanks to European environmentalist policies that deprived the Continent of reliable energy after Russia shut down its gas pipelines.
During an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry said that the U.S. needs to get its “trade policy aligned in a way that can work better” on importing Chinese solar panels, and “we’re
American solar energy companies are reportedly having difficulty complying with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), a law that went into effect in June requiring importers to prove their goods are not tainted with slave labor from the oppressed Uyghur Muslims of China’s Xinjiang province.
All-day blackouts, skyrocketing gasoline and diesel prices, and an unreliable, nearly absent government are fueling demand for solar power in Nigeria, the local This Day newspaper reported on Wednesday, as businesses seek ways to continue to function without relying on the state-run power grid.
The Chinese technology company Xiaomi announced the delivery of its first made-in-Vietnam phone handsets this week, the South China Morning Post revealed on Thursday, the latest Chinese company to move manufacturing power out of its home country in light of the Communist Party’s seemingly endless Chinese coronavirus lockdowns.
Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rob Portman (R-OH) are blasting President Joe Biden for a move that they say will further increase the United States’ dependence on China for solar panels.
A Huntsville, Alabama solar panel factory will close after President Joe Biden exempted foreign-made bifacial solar panels from United States tariffs earlier this month.
John Kerry is drawing scrutiny for his downplaying of China’s slave labor of Uyghurs, from which he and his wife may benefit financially.
The New York Times admits that Joe Biden’s promised “green jobs” could actually be “more akin to an Amazon warehouse or a fleet of Uber drivers: grueling work schedules, few unions, middling wages and limited benefits.”
An Arizona-based solar panel maker has announced a $680 million investment to open a new factory in Lake Township, Ohio, creating 500 American jobs in the community with likely many more jobs created in supporting industries.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. James Comer (R-KY) reacted to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry admitting that China uses slave labor to produce solar panels by stating that it’s “very troubling” that
Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities employed by solar panel plants in China’s western region of Xinjiang are working “of their own will” and paid a competitive salary China’s state-run Global Times claimed Thursday, refuting recent reports from Western media outlets and think tanks alleging the minorities operate under slave labor conditions.
Ethnic Uyghurs from China’s western Xinjiang region are likely manufacturing Chinese-made solar panels through slave labor, the human rights magazine Bitter Winter reported Wednesday.
Climate Czar John Kerry defended President Joe Biden’s plan to reduce carbon emissions by at least 50 percent by 2030, arguing the emerging demand for “green” energy would replace existing energy jobs.
CNBC reports that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is considering a former Tesla employee’s complaint about the company’s management and communication surrounding the company’s solar panels and their risk of fire as evidence in a federal safety investigation.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) criticized climate envoy John Kerry Wednesday for suggesting that laid-off workers in the fossil fuels industry can get jobs in clean energy.
An artificial depression created around the coronavirus outbreak will kill thousands of Americans, explained Jacki Pick.
Another set of Tesla-produced residential solar panels have reportedly caught fire on a home in Louisville, Colorado.
Following reports of Tesla solar panels catching fire at Walmart and Amazon locations, residential owners are now claiming that Tesla solar panels on their homes are now causing fires.