on October 07, 2020

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Trump Issues Executive Order to Support American Mining

Written by Isaac Orr

Last week, President Trump issued an executive order designed to support the American mining industry and support the processing of these minerals in the United States. The administration released the following fact sheet: SECURING SUPPLY CHAINS: President Donald J. Trump is taking further action to ensure that our economic prosperity and national security do not depend on imports from our adversaries. Today, President Trump is signing an Executive Order and declaring a National Emergency to expand the domestic mining industry, support mining jobs, alleviate unnecessary permitting delays, and reduce our Nation’s dependence on China for critical minerals. The Order begins the...

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on October 06, 2020

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Harvard Study Finds Wind Turbines Will Cause More Warming In Minnesota Than Emissions Reductions Would Avert

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A 2018 study conducted by scientists from Harvard, published in the academic journal Joule, found that wind turbines cause significant local increases in surface temperatures in the areas where they are located. Getting all of our electricity from wind turbines would increase local temperatures by 138 times more than the amount temperatures would drop from reducing emissions. ...

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on October 05, 2020

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Smoke From California Wildfires Decreases Solar Generation in CAISO

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The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has published new data showing that smoke from wildfires in California have diminished electricity generation from the state's solar panels. According to the agency: In the first two weeks of September 2020, average solar-powered electricity generation in the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), which covers 90% of utility-scale solar capacity in California, declined nearly 30% from the July 2020 average as wildfires burned across the state. Wildfire smoke contains small, airborne particulate matter particles that are generally 2.5 micrometers or smaller (referred to as PM2.5). This matter reduces the amount of sunlight that reaches solar panels, decreasing solar-powered electricity generation....

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on October 03, 2020

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In The Tank Podcast, Ep. 263: Debate Breakdown, Climate Alarmists Doubling Down

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The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr for episode 263 of the In The Tank Podcast. The ITT crew spends the first half of the episode debating about the debate and how they think Trump did. In the second half, the crew talks about a handful of really important climate change topics from gas-powered-car bans and COVID-inspired climate lockdowns. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61tElV3_uNk&list=PLgnnPnL9OL7F1f6JaU3wPa92dEmncs5dV&index=1[/embed]...

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on October 02, 2020

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Study: Mining Supported 11,600 Minnesota Jobs in 2019

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A newly released study from the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) has found that mining supported 11,600 jobs throughout the state of Minnesota in 2019. These jobs come from direct jobs in the mining industry, indirect jobs, which are jobs in industries that provide supplies and services to the mining industry, like supplying radiators and enormous tires for mining equipment, and induced jobs, which are created when miners spend their paychecks in the local economy at hospitals, grocery stores and auto dealerships. According to the study, most of the mining jobs in Minnesota come from the iron ore industry, which should...

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on October 01, 2020

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Wind and Solar Developers Want To Force You To Pay Their Transmission Costs

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Wind and solar energy are closer to going away entirely than they are to being the future of energy. Here in the Midwest, hundreds of wind and solar installations, representing thousands of megawatts (MW) of installed capacity, have been cancelled because their developers didn't want to foot the bill for the transmission upgrades that would be necessary to bring these projects online. According to an article in Midwest Energy News, which is run by Fresh Energy, wind and solar projects are not financially viable unless the costs for transmission upgrades are saddled on to customers like you. "In all, 245 clean energy...

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on September 30, 2020

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Robert Bryce: California Assemblyman Says State’s Push For Electric Vehicles Fuels ‘Environmental Racism’

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Yesterday, I posted an article by California Assemblyman Jim Cooper, a Black Democrat in California, who said the state's renewable energy mandates were punishing low income, minority communities. Today, I'm posting an article by Robert Bryce, who reports that Mr. Cooper also had sharp criticism of California Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order banning the sale of gasoline powered cars after 2035. The article below originally appeared at Forbes. The sharpest criticism of California’s policies on electric vehicles and climate change isn’t coming from Republicans or groups funded by the oil and gas business. Instead, it’s coming from a Black Democrat, Assemblyman Jim Cooper,...

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on September 29, 2020

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California Democrat: Working Families Should Not Subsidize Renewable Energy

Written by Isaac Orr

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Democrats in California are starting to wake up to the reality that wind and solar mandates are some of the most regressive policies we can enact in a society. Liberal wind and solar groups like Fresh Energy pretend to care about concepts like "environmental justice," but the policies they advocate for are a driving force behind income inequality. These policies, which increase prices for energy, hurt low-income households the most. These groups pay lip service to helping low-income communities while advocating for policies that make their life harder every single day. California Assemblyman Jim Cooper, a Black Democrat from Elk Grove, California...

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on September 28, 2020

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Line 3 Replacement Would Provide Massive Economic Benefits

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Some liberal media outlets have sought to depict the removal of Steve Kelley from his role as the head of the Department of Commerce as a partisan jab at Governor Walz for extending his emergency powers, even though two DFL senators sided with Republicans to remove him. Politics may have indeed played a role in the decision to oust Kelley, but the former Commissioner's decision to once again delay the replacement of the Line 3 pipeline were solid grounds for dismissal. According to a new study, the replacement of the Line 3 project would bring about massive economic benefits in both...

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on September 26, 2020

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Stossel: Government Fueled Fires

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In what can only be described as the greatest pairing in all of human history, John Stossel and Michael Shellenberger team up to discuss wildfires in California. https://youtu.be/N-xvc2o4ezk The massive, deadly wildfires in America's West are caused by climate change,” smirks California governor Gavin Newsom. In reality, bad forest management and excessive regulation are bigger causes. "All of this catastrophizing around climate change is a huge distraction,” says Mike Shellenberger, an environmentalist once named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time Magazine. " Climate change is real," he says, but "it's not the end of the world. It's not our most serious environmental problem."...

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