The City of Lakes adopts “ambitious” goals for global warming. Mild amusement follows. Today, the City of Minneapolis adopted its most ambitious climate change goals, ever. The Star Tribune recaps…
There’s only one reason to construct a carbon dioxide pipeline to dispose of emissions from ethanol plants in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota — fear and loathing over climate…
Minneapolis votes to restrict heavy industries, inevitably hurting those they’re claiming to help.
The Biden administration has proposed sweeping new rules aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing fossil-fueled power plants that will seriously jeopardize the reliability and affordability of…
Axios reports a rising number of unsold electric vehicles (EVs) are piling up on auto dealer lots throughout the nation as the supply of the vehicles begins to outstrip demand.…
June hailstorms in Nebraska dropped baseball-sized hailstones at speeds of 100 to 150 miles per hour at locations throughout the state. The hailstorm damaged energy infrastructure in the Cornhusker state,…
The website Heatmap recently published an interesting interview with Mark Christie, a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC. The title of the article is a bit clickbaity…
Heatwaves could test the nation’s electric grid as blackouts loom.
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has approved Xcel Energy’s request to construct a 10 megawatt (MW), 1,000 megawatt-hour (MWh) iron-air battery near the site of the Sherburne County Generating…
It’s been very warm in Minnesota over the last two weeks, leading families to turn up the air conditioning. One thing that hasn’t been turned up over the last 14…
My friend Madi Hilly has blown up the internet over the last two days after posing next to stored nuclear fuel while 27 weeks pregnant while visiting Idaho National Labs.…
Policy fellow Isaac Orr joined Mark Hinaman on his new show about the need for more nuclear power. In the show, Isaac laments about how “Free Willy” environmentalism, which is…
Siemens Energy has announced that it will likely be unable to make a profit this year due to a projected $1.1 billion loss in its wind turbine division, called Siemens…
Isaac Orr joined Trent Loos on Rural Route Radio to discuss how the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency regulations will force reliable coal and natural gas power plants to shut…
Great River Energy (GRE), which provides electricity to many of Minnesota’s Rural Electric Co-ops, is attempting to upgrade its 170 megawatt (MW) natural gas peaking plant in Cambridge, Minnesota, so…
Xcel Energy is reconsidering its future “clean energy” investments after the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved a much smaller electricity rate increase than the utility company wanted, placing doubt…
Yesterday, the Star Tribune ran a story about Xcel Energy’s plan to relicense both of its nuclear power plants in Minnesota (Monticello, and Prairie Island) to run for a total…
Kite and Key Media released an excellent video describing how the United States is weakening its electric grid by shutting down reliable power plants and replacing them with unreliable wind…
The smoke from the Canadian wildfires has supercharged claims that carbon dioxide emissions are responsible for making wildfires worse. However, my friend Jason Hayes of the Mackinac Center for Public…
Isaac Orr joins the In The Tank Podcast to talk about the coming problems with electric reliability thanks to a new batch of regulations imposed by the Biden Administration. With…
I recently appeared on the Republican Roundtable, a public access television program that appears on stations in the Twin Cities, to discuss the state of energy policy in Minnesota as…
On Tuesday, June 6, 2023, the Biden administration’s Army Corp of Engineers revoked the Clean Water Act Section 404 permit issued in 2019 for the proposed NorthMet/NewRange copper-nickel mine in…
For decades, Americans have been told that they must recycle to save the planet. It turns out some things, like cardboard and aluminum cans, are worth recycling, but the vast…
Last week, I highlighted The Good and The Bad provisions of the debt ceiling compromise. Today, I’ll highlight The Ugly provisions pertaining to energy. The Ugly: Pipeline approvals by an act of…