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In April the New York State Assembly passed Assembly Bill A7389C. Early Friday morning the New York State Senate, on the last day of the current session, passed the same bill, sending it to Gov. Kathy Hochul's desk for a signature. A7389C (full copy below) slaps a two-year moratorium on cryptocurrency mining (i.e. bitcoin mining)

The so-called Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a tax on carbon dioxide emissions from coal and natural gas-fired power plants aimed at killing off those two sources of energy, is more expensive than ever. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is forcing PA to join the RGGI cabal of 11 states (most of them in the northeast),

We were shocked last December when Consolidated Edison, one of the top natural gas utilities in New York City (in the entire country), threw its support behind a plan to eventually ban the use of natural gas in all of NYC's buildings (see ConEd Turns Traitor – Supports Natural Gas Ban in NYC Buildings). Their

Some interesting exchanges took place at yesterday's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) open meeting between the five commissioners. Chairman Richard "Dick" Glick released the agency's Summer Energy Market and Reliability Assessment report along with a press release sugarcoating some of the strong language in the report. One of the statements in the Key Findings of

We're holding on by a thread folks, with respect to PA's onerous new carbon tax. Back in April, we told you about a lawsuit filed by Big Coal against the Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf administration to block Wolf's attempt to force the state to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a carbon tax on

In 2020, MDN told you about the Marcellus-fired power plant planned for Clinton County, PA called the Renovo Energy Center, a resurrected project come back to life as an even bigger project that will produce 1,240 megawatts of electricity (see Renovo Energy Center Roars Back to Life,

Pennsylvania State Sen. Gene Yaw has been a champion in the fight to defeat Gov. Tom Wolf's hideous carbon tax, otherwise known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Wolf is trying to force PA to join over the objections of a majority of state legislators. In his latest missive about RGGI, Yaw connects some

Last week Philadelphia released a so-called "Greenhouse Gas Inventory" report (full copy below) comparing emissions from 2019, the most recent pre-pandemic data, to a baseline in 2006. The report shows citywide emissions have dropped 20% since 2006. In reporting done by the lefties at PBS about this news, you have to read down to the

Three cheers for Big Coal! We're not all that thrilled with using coal in power plants given there is a much more environmentally-friendly option--natural gas. But we're certainly not against coal energy and we're all for free enterprise and competition among fuel sources. The coal industry in Pennsylvania has our respect and admiration for standing

A world-first happened along the banks of the Ohio River in Hannibal (Monroe County), OH in March. The Long Ridge Energy Terminal, host to a Utica shale gas-fired power plant that went online last November, successfully added