The US Northeast experienced an extratropical cyclone, commonly known as a Nor’easter, on February 23, 2026. The storm affected the East coast from Delaware North through New England, producing blizzard conditions and leaving multiple feet of snow in its wake.

This paper assesses whether direct air capture (DAC) can effectively remove carbon from the atmosphere in a physically, economically, and environmentally viable way and concludes that it cannot. DAC is inherently energy-intensive due to the laws of thermodynamics. Because using fossil fuels to power DAC facilities would reduce or even eliminate the resulting CO2 emissions ...

California state government and the climate and environmental communities take great pride in California’s “progress” toward a fossil fuel free clean energy future, as illustrated by the images and text below, recently published on Facebook.

The Sun’s influence on our planet cannot be overstated—it is the life source of us all, what keeps us warm and the Earth from freezing into a ball of ice. It’s no wonder that it is the primary driver of climate change, though environmentalists and the media, caught up with blaming humans for a climate catastrophe, have lost sight of the obvious.

I discussed factors which contribute to electricity price increases in a previous commentary. Richard Greene, the editor of the Honest Climate Science and Energy blog commented that I had not included the effects of increased natural gas prices. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) provides the following data on the natural gas prices paid by electric generators.

A few days ago the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a new rule that rescinded the 2009 Endangerment Finding that found that six greenhouse gases emitted from autos posed risks to health and welfare. Also eliminated by the EPA decision are a set of regulations governing emissions from light vehicles and trucks that followed directly from the Endangerment Finding.

The graph below shows the demand and fuel mix for the PJM ISO for the seven day period 1/30/2026 – 2/5/2026. This was an abnormally cold period for the region. Peak load during the period was 145 GW at 8 am on 1/30. During the period, nuclear provided a consistent 33.6 GW, while coal contributed 25 - 30 GW. Natural gas generators provided the primary load following generation, varying from ...

From Government Accountability & Oversight 2009 Obama EPA appointees internally called the Endangerment Finding a “decision ready to go,” a “basic fact” and “nothing more than science and common sense”; discussion went straight to timing, suggesting predetermination and a sham notice-and-comment rule making process.

Electricity rate increases have been the focus of much discussion over the past several years. They are currently a specific focus of discussions regarding the current political catchphrase: “affordability”. There are numerous factors which cause or contribute to electricity rate increases. At the national level the primary factor is inflation in the general economy, which affects utility and merchant generator operating costs ...

The world currently has 8.2 billion people and a global economy approaching $120 trillion. The world also routinely experiences extreme weather events like tropical cyclones, floods, and tornadoes. Given these facts, how much economic loss should we expect annually from extreme weather events in the context of the global economy?

The pursuit of the transition of the energy economy has resulted in massive investments in redundant facilities. Redundancy is expensive and wasteful. It has contributed significantly to the inflation in the general economy, primarily as the result of the incentives, subsidies and mandates imposed to advance it.

One year since President Trump took office, his administration, along with Congress, have taken over 250 actions to unleash America’s energy potential. A list of those actions appears below.

Subsidies encourage market participation and support market growth by reducing the market prices of the subsidized products and actions. However, they do not reduce the societal cost of the products or actions and actually increase societal costs since the subsidies are typically provided from borrowed funds.

Back in the days before deregulation, when we had vertically integrated utilities, the cost of generation was less important. The utility owned all the generation they needed; power exchange between large utilities was limited largely to seasonal support and switched back and forth.

Subsidies are used to make the price of an alternative product or action as attractive as, or more attractive than, other available options. The magnitude of the subsidy is determined by the relative cost of the alternatives and their relative acceptability or desirability. Subsidies will cause some percentage of decision-makers to choose the subsidized product or action rather than the available alternatives.

“Canada is warming at roughly double the global average rate,” according to scientists at Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). But it looks like this claim, regularly repeated by politicians and media across the board, is yet another example of made up evidence to support a politically correct narrative.

Corporations use incentives in a number of ways to “make things happen”. These are typically short duration programs to accelerate market entry for new products or services, such as reduced prices and warranty extensions, which are terminated when the product or service offering has achieved early market acceptance.

We have been fortunate to witness the largest climate event to occur on the planet since the advent of global satellite records, and possibly the largest event since the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815. It is clearly a naturally occurring, externally forced climate event. However, mainstream climate scientists are not treating it appropriately.

The United States will continue on the path to energy independence and energy dominance, relying largely on natural gas while supporting life extension projects for nuclear and coal generators to maintain grid reliability. The US will also support efforts to expand nuclear generation both at GW scale and from SMRs. Uranium mining and fuel processing will be expanded.

The dream customer for a utility would consume a massive amount of power at a constant rate, 24 hours a day, with no seasonal variation. The data center is about as close to that as there is, with an enormous appetite for power and a typical load factor of 86%. The load factor is the utilization rate, defined as the average consumption divided by the peak. The load factor for a large electricity grid, such as ERCOT or MISO, is ~64%. A higher load factor results in lower costs for consumers by maximizing the use of all the equipment.