New York Reconsiders Upgrades of Gas-Fired Power Plants
Danskammer Energy, which had operated a gas-fired peaker power plant along the Hudson River in Newburgh, NY, worked on a project to upgrade the plant since 2018. In June 2024, Danskammer Energy withdrew its permit application with the fossil fuel-hostile state, formally ending attempts to expand after nearly seven years of frustration in trying and receiving rejections from the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Let the idiots who keep the Dems in power sit in the dark and see how that feels. Now, the idiots (and leftist politicians who want to keep their jobs) are waking up and saying, “Oh crap. We might need those gas-fired plants after all.” It sounds so sweet to say: WE TOLD YOU SO! Read More “New York Reconsiders Upgrades of Gas-Fired Power Plants”
The Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) project is designed to increase Transco pipeline capacity and flows of Marcellus gas heading into New York City and other northeastern markets. Following some intense conversations between President Trump and New York Governor Kathy Hochul, she caved (according to the White House). She agreed to allow two long-stalled pipeline projects—the Constitution and NESE—to get built in NY in return for Trump allowing her to continue to sink $5 billion into an offshore wind project (see 
It’s one thing to openly criticize and attack fossil energy and the U.S.’s embrace of fossil energy. It’s an entirely different thing when U.S. taxpayers pay for those attacks. We’re speaking of the far-left-leaning International Energy Agency (IEA) and its corrupt leader, Dr. Fatih Birol. We’ve written plenty about the IEA over the years, noting its dramatic shift away from real science into leftist political science. The Trump administration has had enough of the IEA’s antics and has put the agency on notice that unless it changes the way it forecasts about energy, we’re out. The U.S. will withdraw its membership, and along with it, a substantial amount of the agency’s funding (millions of dollars). Birol can find someone else to fund his lavish lifestyle and jet-setting around the globe to bash fossil fuels. 
You gotta hand it to Pennsylvania Democrats. They LOVE LOVE LOVE to tax other people’s money—especially companies and industries that they hate, like the state’s oil and gas industry. On July 8, PA State Senator Art Haywood (Democrat from Philadelphia) introduced PA Senate Bill (SB) 910, which slaps a 6.5% severance tax on the gross production of all oil and natural gas produced in the state. However, the bill goes further by repealing the provision in the 2012 Act 13 law that states that if a severance tax is ever implemented, the existing impact fee would be eliminated. In other words, Haywood’s bill eliminates the provision to end the impact fee, meaning the impact fee would remain in place. So, drillers would be taxed twice for the same thing. Fortunately, the bill is DOA in the Senate. 
Well, you knew this was coming. Radicalized green groups are gearing up to challenge two recently resurrected Williams pipeline projects: The Constitution Pipeline, a 124-mile, 660 MMcf/d greenfield (brand new) pipeline from the gas fields of northeastern Pennsylvania (in Susquehanna County) into and through New York to Schoharie County; and the Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) project, designed to increase Transco pipeline capacity and flows of Marcellus gas heading into New York City and other northeastern markets. 
The lawfare battle brought by radical green groups in New Jersey, including Food and Water Watch, the NJ Highlands Coalition, and the Sierra Club, aimed at overturning the decision to permit and build an electric compressor station and a pipeline that connects to it, is over. Done. Finished. Can we please stick a fork in it? We’re talking about the battle to block a compressor project in West Milford, NJ, part of Kinder Morgan’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) East 300 expansion project, an upgrade of TGP to deliver an extra 115 MMcf/d of natural gas to Consolidated Edison and its customers in New York City and surrounding suburbs. The radicals just flamed out in a NJ appeals court and have no options left to challenge it. 
When referring to Big Green groups in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, we often label the groups as “colluding,” meaning they coordinate their legal and public relations attacks against fossil fuel companies. It is something we have long suspected but (unfortunately) can’t prove definitively. We had hoped Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) was about to prove it (see 
The special court established in Pennsylvania to hear appeals of Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) decisions, known as the Environmental Hearing Board (EHB), didn’t please anyone with a decision it rendered several weeks ago. We previously reported that the EHB had ruled in favor of CNX Resources to allow two previously permitted wells to move forward with construction (see 
We’re trying not to snicker and laugh out loud, but it’s hard. In May of last year, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a Big Green group dedicated to eliminating the use of fossil fuels, launched a methane-sniffing satellite called MethaneSAT (see 
We’ve chronicled some of the antics and borderline violent behavior of the environmental left. We’ve also told you how some on the left seek to ban free speech and put you in jail if you support fossil fuels. The United Nations, in a new report, calls for criminalizing “fossil fuel disinformation” (i.e., expressing support for fossil fuels). It calls for prohibiting fossil fuel companies from lobbying or advertising (no free speech for them). It goes on to call for making the spread of “climate disinformation” a crime. That would mean locking up MDN’s Jim Willis. The report even calls for countries to force-brainwash citizens against fossil fuels—just call it what it really is, reeducation camps. Can anyone tell us why we should remain in the UN? We can’t think of a single good reason. 
The climate change hoaxers of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), along with other Big Green groups, are attempting another headfake of oil and gas companies and the financial institutions that help fund them. The Methane Finance Working Group, an initiative launched at the United Nations’ COP28 climate summit in 2023, released guidance to “deliver and deploy market-tested finance mechanisms that facilitate decarbonization across the oil and gas sector, while expanding the opportunities to achieve measurable methane emission reductions,” according to EDF. What the heck does that even mean? 
One day before Constellation Energy’s Eddystone Generating Station in Delaware County, PA, was due to close its remaining two units, the Trump Department of Energy (DOE) stepped in and ordered the plants to remain active based on Trump’s declaration of an energy emergency across the country (see 
Did you know that artificial intelligence (AI) services like ChatGPT “isn’t great for the planet”? That you should be using AI responsibly. And that you can choose an AI model that “harms the planet less.” This is the lunacy now coming from the left. Last week, on the same day, both the New York Times and the Washington Post (the epitome of leftist groupthink) published stories warning readers that using AI is killing the planet. Here we go again. Yeah, you should just remain dumb and give up your use of AI. That’s the solution!