President-elect Trump has made it clear that reducing the national debt will be a top priority for his administration. Adding to this focus, Elon Musk has thrown his weight behind the proposed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a bold initiative aimed at scrutinizing government spending and revenues. The offshore sector, encompassing oil, gas, wind, and...
Tiffany & Co. wants to impact the environment positively, and its marine conservation initiative is the latest example.
Myra P. Saefong of MarketWatch reports on gas demand from Hurricane Milton in Florida. Hurricane Milton is one of the Atlantic Basin’s strongest storms on record and the frenzy of evacuations in Florida, where it’s expected to make landfall Wednesday evening, has led to shortages at nearly 16% of the gasoline stations in Florida, according...
Amanda Chu and Andrew Jack of the Financial Times report that Princeton is reversing its ban on fossil fuel-funded research. Princeton University has reversed a policy that had sharply constrained the funding of academic research by fossil fuel companies, after pressure from faculty members and concerns that the rules risked hindering work on environmental challenges....
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Voters Looking for More Information Aren’t Playing “Gotcha”
"With respect to safety, forty years ago we were very focused on the potential for low-probability, high-consequence accidents in which the fuel in a nuclear power plant could melt and release radiation to the environment. In response to this risk, nuclear energy technologies in the United States are carefully designed and operated to avoid accidents and minimize their consequences. Here again, several decades of experience of nuclear industry operations, overseen by the NRC, have demonstrated that accidents are very rare, and when they do occur, the radiation exposure is minimal."
The UN Secretary-General’s Doomsday Message Isn’t Helping Anyone
Through private sector intervention, our country could protect and restore wetlands.
"What too many well-meaning activists don’t seem to understand — or don’t want to admit — is that the clean energy industry is nowhere near ready to replace fossil fuels, which make up 60 percent of all electricity production in the United States. Even if the country were prepared politically to start turning off its carbon spigot, it simply could not do so without generating an energy crisis."
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