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Trump’s prospective new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a drastic improvement on his predecessor.

THE HAGUE (AFP) – Dutch officials on Monday opened what is being billed as one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms, with 150 turbines spinning in action far out in the North Sea.

For a brief moment – a very brief moment – it looked as if Britain had finally acquired a Prime Minister with the gumption to take on the troughers and con artists of the renewable industry and restore some common sense to our energy economy.

If Hillary Clinton becomes our next president, expect an invasion of industrial wind development in your community that severely damages your property values, ruins the viewshed, and impacts your sleep patterns.

If a country’s goal is to decrease carbon emissions by increasing reliance on renewable energy, it only makes sense to install the new equipment in the location with the best potential—both in geography and government.

Regular readers may be aware that I am not a fan of wind farms. This is because, among other things, they kill birds and bats, hurt the environment, cause sleeplessness and sickness in humans, drive up fuel prices, enrich troughing

(AFP) – A wind farm that would be the largest in the world and power more than a million homes has been given the go-ahead in Britain. Offshore wind developer Dong Energy said Wednesday a final decision had been made

Despite offshore wind farms around the world serving as Osterizers for seabirds and sonar jamming devices for marine mammals, an out-of-state company with no experience is proposing to install 100 floating turbines, each up to 636 feet tall, offshore from the Hearst Castle in California.

Congress has taken action that actually advances free markets and limits government intrusion.

When President Obama declared earlier this year that “climate change” represents “an immediate risk to our national security” he was absolutely right: his administration’s crazed faith that renewable energy represents a solution to “climate change” is severely impacting the defensive capabilities of the US military.

The number of wind turbines in Britain is set to double, contrary to assurances from the government that they are putting the brakes on the wind farm industry. According to recent figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change

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The year 2015 may go down as when support for renewable energy flipped. Policy adjustments—whether for electricity generation or transportation fuels—are in the works on both the state and federal levels.

Scotland’s biggest conservation charities have called for an overhaul of the planning system, citing fears that Scotland’s government is too biased towards wind energy. Alarmed by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s ambitions for even more wind farms in Scotland, they have

Sixty-five of the world’s leading biologists are demanding the “historical antagonism” towards nuclear power from the green lobby end. In an open letter, the group is expected to claim it is too risky to replace fossil fuels with wind turbines

As Britain shivers under a blanket of snow and ice, it has emerged that offshore windfarms have been idling to prevent icing up – and drawing electricity off the national grid to do so. Critics have pointed out the “folly”