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  The Ivanpah concentrated-solar project has been an environmental and economic disaster. Launched in 2014, the $2.2 billion solar facility located 230 miles northeast of Los Angeles, was designed to produce 392 megawatts of electricity by focusing sunlight on 459-foot-high towers. At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, then-Secretary of Energy Ernie Moniz claimed the sprawling project, which covers nearly six square miles of the Mojave Desert, was a “ shining example ” of America’s leadership in solar energy. But Ivanpah was a flop. It never generated more than 75% of its planned electricity output. It relies heavily on natural gas to ensure its complex generators operate properly. The juice it produces is absurdly expensive. And it has been a disaster for wildlife. Some  6,000 birds are being killed every year  while flying between the mirrors and the towers. The project also required relocating endangered desert tortoises. Even the goofballs at the Sierra Club, an outfit that...

  Whatever happened to the climate crisis?   In 2021 Bill Gates was warning that the equator would become unlivable as he promoted his book, “How to Avoid A Climate Disaster.” In October, he effectively said, never mind. “Climate change won’t wipe out civilization,” he wrote.   Former United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance Mark Carney became Canada’s prime minister this year and promptly scrapped Canada’s consumer carbon tax. He has just announced a major new pipeline project.   Democratic billionaire Tom Steyer built a presidential run in 2020 around climate. Now running for governor of California, the word appears nowhere in his launch video.   Why have climate alarmists suddenly gone quiet? The science and the economics haven’t really changed: Carbon emissions are still rising, and the climate is still getting warmer.   What’s changed is the politics. Climate warriors persuaded the public to take climate...

  The day after President Donald Trump halted construction of a $5 billion wind project off the New York coast, the nation’s top offshore wind developers gathered for a regularly scheduled strategy session in Washington.   The mid-April meeting quickly became heated.   Michael Brown, an outspoken Scotsman who leads the developer Ocean Winds, expressed anger that the industry’s main trade association would not join a blue-state lawsuit challenging Trump’s freeze on offshore wind permitting. American Clean Power Association CEO Jason Grumet pushed back, saying the industry should preserve its political capital at a time when Congress was gearing up to eliminate former President Joe Biden’s clean energy tax credits. The pair “were shouting at one another,” said one person at the meeting, who like most industry figures quoted in this story was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive business and political matters. Another attendee described it as “definitely contenti...

  Published Dec. 2, 2025, It’s been one big, green goof. The Empire State’s  green energy  push has been a pie-in-the-sky bust as politicians hit the brakes on their alternate energy goals — and New Yorkers get sticker shock from ever-soaring utility bills, a scathing new report found. The analysis by the Democratic-leaning think tank the Progressive Policy Institute  found a “clear and undeniable pattern of failure”  across the most critical mandates of the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Act. 4 A top Hochul aide said the governor has slowed down implementation because of cost concerns .   4 The Empire State’s green energy push has been a pie-in-the-sky bust . “New York set bold climate targets, but ignored the economic and technical realities required to achieve them,” said PPI’s report author Neel Brown. “The result is an energy system that is less reliable, more expensive, and now politically unsustainable. Unless policymakers course correct,...