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In the first release of a three-part report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned this week of the consequences of a rapidly warming world spurred largely by human-influenced climate change.

Without offshore wind, NJ faces billions in shoreline damage, officials argue Offshore wind: From a turbine in the ocean to your home in the suburbs Replay Video UP NEXT More than 100 New Jersey elected officials released a letter Tuesday supporting offshore wind projects along the coast, adding that doing nothing to address climate change would result in billions of dollars in losses to communities across the state. Elected Officials to Protect America — a network of former and current e...

Best-Selling Author to Discuss Wind Farm Technology Thursday 7 p.m. at OC Music Pier Published by July 11, 2021 Author and environmental advocate Michael Shellenberger will be the guest speaker Thursday evening at the Ocean City Music Pier. By DONALD WITTKOWSKI Best-selling author and nationally known environmental advocate Michael Shellenberger scoffs at the notion that ocean wind farms, like the one proposed off the South Jersey coast, are a good source of renewable, green energy. He regards...

The Biden Administration recently announced plans to open more than 250,000 acres off the California coast to wind ...

The New Denial Is Delay at the Breakthrough Institute (Part 3) This is Part Three of “The New Denial Is Delay at the Breakthrough Institute,” a three-part series examining the Breakthrough Institute and ecomodernism. In Part Two, we discussed their annual meetings to which they invite climate skeptics and Monsanto propagandists, the odd credentials for many of their affiliates, and their promotion of nuclear energy and GMO agriculture as techno-fixes to electrify and feed the world. To sta...

Chesapeake Bay and Environmental Progress at the Conowingo Dam May 3, 2021 Exelon Makes Initial Payments of More than $5.7 Million to Maryland under $200 Million Agreement Incorporated into Dam Relicensing Photo by Stephen Badger/Maryland Department of Natural Resources Maryland has received the first payments, totaling more than $5.7 million, under an agreement that requires the owner of the Conowingo Dam to invest in environmental projects and operational enhancements to improve water quality...

But in some ways there is less to Biden’s radicalism than meets the eye, says the Financial Times’ Edward Luce.

The power station on the banks of the Hudson has no place in the state’s plans switch to renewables but critics say in the short term it means lost jobs and increased emissions

The truth isnt so politically simple. In truth,  both wind turbines and gas plants froze because of the abnormal weather. And when Warren Buffets Berkshire Hathaway said it had plans for additional generation capacity in Texas, it wasnt talking about wind turbines. It was talking about more gas-fired power plants— ten more gigawatts of them. While the Texas Freeze hogged headlines in the United States, across the Atlantic, the only European country producing any electricity from solar f...

These days, so-called green energy is ostensibly becoming more popular. An increasing number of homes across the country sport solar panels on their rooftops and the landscape is dotted with giant windmills. The panels power a home with the sunshine of a glorious spring day, and the turbines turn gusts of wind into cheap, environmentally friendly energy. But is it effective? The question has always been whether or not green energy could meet the demands of our country while keeping costs low. T...