The US Government has awarded new offshore wind leases off the coast of Massachusetts that are said to be worth over $405 million and which have the potential to develop up to 4.1 gigawatts of offshore wind.
The evidence keeps piling up. Climate change will have a major impact on Americans and cost trillions of dollars. Why is no one in authority paying the slightest attention?
In recent days, Ryan Zinke, US Secretary of the Interior, has been making headlines with his remarkably wrong-headed remarks about the US West’s horrific season of wildfires, blaming them on eco-terrorists. As with President Trump’s tweets of two days earlier in which he made the baffling statement that California was pumping fresh water into the Pacific instead of using it to fight fires, Zinke is so wrong that it is literally incredible that he could believe what he is saying.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says he will consider a proposal to restore the Hetch Hetchy valley to its former beauty. Could there be an ulterior motive behind his words?
Why Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s sudden affection for offshore wind energy looks more like damage control than a serious change in direction.
US Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke recently took to the podium in front of an audience full of energy industry workers at CERA Week to talk US policy, and then proceeded to reveal just how much of a shill for the petroleum industry he really is.
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced approval last week for 26 large-scale renewable energy projects, including 22 solar projects worth 647 megawatts (MW) and 733.58 MW worth of wind energy.
The US is projected to be the largest supplier of oil and gas within 5 years, thanks to fracking. Will that make America great again?
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke claims he’s not a fossil fuel puppet. “People ask me, ‘am I a fossil fuel guy?’ ” he says. “I’m like, ‘no, I’m all the above.’ ” But when it comes to solar energy — a critical component of ‘all of the above’ — and the best use of public lands, his logic is… for the birds.
Trump has big plans to help Big Oil in Alaska — including Arctic offshore drilling, the Salmon-destroying Pebble Mine, and of course, opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for more energy exploration (a wet dream of the GOP for almost 50 years). But now all that could be at risk, since he’s annoyed at Alaskan GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski for voting against Trumpcare.
