The state of California penalizes the state’s utility companies, like Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), by holding them strictly liable resulting from any mishap with the company’s service area. For example, any outbreaks of wildfires resulting from sparks from company power lines hitting each other due to high winds or a tree limb blown into…
House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi has restarted the War on Coal initiated by (now former) President Obama. According to Fox News, Pelosi is supporting the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal initiative to shut down more than a third of US coal fired power plants by 2020. Hillary Clinton supported a similar initiative for her 2016 Presidential…
A Mitsubishi subsidiary seeks to construct a power generating plant in the New Jersey’s Meadowlands that would run on fossil fuels extracted by fracking and would provide power to Manhattan, New York. According to NJTV, New Jersey’s Governor-elect, Phil Murphy, said during his campaign that he would make it a goal for New Jersey to…
In addition to his obsessive quest to see President Donald Trump impeached, billionaire Tom Steyer is funding a ballot initiative in Arizona that will if enacted, increase the state’s usage of so-called clean energy sources. On top of all of that, Steyer is also financing a voter registration drive in The Grand Canyon State in…
Hurricane Sandy damaged quite a bit of homes and facilities when she tore through New York. Among the facilities the storm damaged was the Danskammer power plant located near Poughkeepsie. Due to the amount of water that thrashed the area, the plant was nearly destroyed resulting in its owners declaring bankruptcy and seeking to sell…
