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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Renewable Power Mandate Could Add $2,000 To Nevadans’ Annual Energy Bills
by James Taylor November 6, 2018Nevadans enjoy some of the lowest electricity prices in the nation. However, Question 6 on the Nevada ballot could put that in peril.
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Environment/Energy
Trump Cuts Clean Power Plan, Boosts America’s Prospects
by H. Sterling Burnett October 30, 2017The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a notice in the Federal Register that it is rescinding former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP).
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Environment/Energy
Wind Power’s Future in U.S. Could Be Thwarted by Grassroots Opposition
by Thomas Hemphill and Mark Perry June 30, 2017The luster is coming off wind power as an economically viable, environmentally friendly, community-friendly source of America’s energy future—and for some very good reasons.
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On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised he would stimulate the economy by lifting job-killing regulations and mandates on the energy industry that hurt American workers and consumers.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Here’s What The New York Times Completely Missed In Its Criticism Of Fracking
by Isaac Orr June 29, 2016Although the May 23 New York Times article on hydraulic fracturing, “The Sand Mines That Ruin Farmland,” is an interesting read, it is by no means an accurate one. Author Nancy Loeb relies on unsubstantiated claims in order to push forth her own liberal agenda. Hydraulic fracturing is not the monster that Loeb makes it out to be.
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The rapid development of frac sand mining in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and especially Wisconsin led many people living near mines and processing plants to become concerned about the potential negative impact these facilities could have on local air quality. One of the primary worries some residents cite is the amount of very fine particle pollutants, measuring 2.5 micrometers in diameter (PM2.5), that may be generated from these facilities. But what does the best available evidence tell us?