Wind farms, giant wind turbines in clusters, will save the environment and produce electricity at no more than conventional sources.…

It looks more and more like the swamp is going to be drained.

From ABC News  12/9/2016

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team appears to be compiling a roster of names of Energy Department staff members, including career civil servants, who worked on plans to cut carbon emissions, according to a questionnaire obtained by ABC…

November 2016

Attorney General Mills: Gut the First Amendment

By Jon Reisman

The Maine legislature will be electing constitutional officers in December. The expected candidacy and reelection of Democrat Attorney General Janet Mills will have important and far reaching implications for climate change policy, freedom of speech and association, partisan temperatures and the 2018 gubernatorial election.

Mills, daughter of a prominent western Maine family, has served…

President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of…

At a meeting Friday in the Capitol Plaza Hotel, Stephen Ambrose, a sound consultant and member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, argued that sound levels permitted in Vermont are too high and are causing sleeplessness, distress and other health-related symptoms.…

Personnel is policy, as they say, and despite his meeting with the High Priest of Climatology, Al Gore, president-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt to be the new head at EPA, shows Trump is serious about pulling back the curtain to expose climate fraud, leaving climate zealots as unsettled as the alleged “science” they trumpet.…

1603 Program: Payments for Specified Energy Property in Lieu of Tax Credits

"The purpose of the 1603 payment is to reimburse eligible applicants for a portion of the cost of installing specified energy property used in a trade or business or for the production of income. A 1603 payment is made after the energy property is placed in service; a 1603 payment is not made prior to or during construction of the energy property".

If you go to the following website and then…

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to pick Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers to head the Interior Department, according to presidential transition team sources.

McMorris Rodgers is the highest-ranking Republican woman in the House and serves as vice-chair for Trump’s transition team. Trump is expected to name McMorris Rodgers as his Interior secretary pick, a senior transition team official told CNBC Friday.

Republicans want the next Interior pick to focus on…

Trump team questions EIA staff on added costs to transmit and back-up wind power (Bloomberg)

The group also questions whether any technologies or products that have emerged from Energy Department programs “are currently offered in the market without any subsidy” ........

The Energy Information Administration, the department’s statistical arm, is the subject of at least 15 questions that probe its staffing, data and analytical decisions,…

Trump’s loathing for renewables — especially bat-slicing, bird-chomping eco-crucifixes — is deep and personal.

Trump hates wind farms because they ruined the countryside round his golf courses in Scotland. When he met Nigel Farage recently, he urged him to campaign against them.…

Fishing groups are now fighting Atlantic offshore wind development as the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management rushes to put leases in place by December 15th.

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/12/08/fishing-groups-seek-atlantic-wind-farm-delay/

Agencies such as the EPA, he said, should not be trying to “pinch hit” for Congress......Pruitt has spent much of his energy as attorney general fighting against the agency he will now lead.....…