Trump Admin Speaks Truth About Renewables at IEA Summit in London
For more than four years, MDN has called out the International Energy Agency (IEA) and its executive director, Dr. Fatih Birol, as nothing more than tools of Big Green. We’ve reported on many of the IEA’s perennially wrong (fake) predictions about “peak demand” for oil and natural gas (see IEA Rushes to Change Absurd Peak Oil Prediction 24 Hrs After COP28) and about the IEA’s plea for no new oil and gas drilling worldwide because of man-made global warming concerns (see Intl Energy Agency Says World Should Stop All New O&G Development). We told you then (in 2021) that the IEA was not to be trusted. The IEA convened an international Summit on the “Future of Energy Security” in London last Thursday and Friday. Trump’s Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs, Tommy Joyce, lectured the Euro weenies TO THEIR FACES that pursuing idiotic “net zero” is a fool’s errand. Read More “Trump Admin Speaks Truth About Renewables at IEA Summit in London”
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has found some willing accomplices among PA House Democrats to introduce six bills to implement Shapiro’s nutty, very partisan energy plan, called the “Lightning Plan.” Shapiro claims his so-called Lightning Plan is “a comprehensive, all-of-the-above energy plan to secure Pennsylvania’s energy future.” Except his plan puts the thumb of the government on the scales in favor of wind, solar, and hydro, and purposely disadvantages natural gas. Our observation: If it takes six (or more) bills to adopt his energy plan, something is seriously wrong. 
This is TOO funny! Donald Trump so rattles the fascist climate left, they’re now imagining things that haven’t and won’t happen. Someone on the environmental left spread a rumor last week that the Trump administration was about to issue an executive order revoking the tax-exempt status of so-called “green” groups, those that employ lawfare to attack the U.S. and its energy industry. You know, groups like the Sierra Club, 350.org, Food & Water Watch, National Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, and others. They’re jumpy, like they’re on drugs. (Well, some of them probably are.) The rumor spread like wildfire among the guilt-ridden groups that Trump was coming for their tax-exempt status. And then the White House said nope, it’s all just a fantasy of the jumpy left. 
One week ago, MDN told you that an on-again, off-again plan to build a massive natural gas-fired power plant (that would use Marcellus gas) in Pittsylvania County, Va., had been pulled by the builder (see 
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) was created to help advance clean-energy infrastructure and technologies that allegedly had the potential to be adequate energy resources but struggled to secure private investment. In reality, LPO is a taxpayer-backed ATM for unreliable energy technologies and infrastructure that can’t compete without federal funding. It’s a Biden-era boondoggle, and it’s time to scrap it. 
Today is the annual day when environmental wackos demand fealty to Mother Earth. You WILL bow down and worship the creation (instead of the Creator) or risk being excommunicated from polite company. We thumb our noses at Earth Day worshipers and declare our love for the miracle of fossil energy on this Earth Day. We invite you to join us in celebrating the greatest invention of mankind–fossil fuels! 
In what appears to be a coordinated effort, the PJM Interconnect electric grid is under attack by leftists. As we point out in our lead story today, the Pennsylvania DEP has prostituted itself politically and joined with extremist left-wing organizations to attack PJM. At the same time, three deeply blue (economically failed) states, New Jersey, Maryland, and Illinois, filed a complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) asking the agency to force PJM to rerun an electric capacity auction, claiming such a move would save ratepayers $5 billion. These states’ failed policies in FORCING unreliable solar and wind on the public caused the high-priced electricity problem in the first place. So now, the perpetrators are blaming the victim—PJM. 
The name Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) pretty much says it all. PGW is a natural gas utility serving the Philly region. It’s not an electric company; it’s a natural gas company. So, it will probably come as no surprise that PGW belongs to a trade organization called the American Public Gas Association (APGA). Indeed, PGW is the largest member of the APGA. And it would probably not surprise you to learn that the APGA supports President Trump’s efforts to pause and defund much of the money not already distributed from the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which was Biden’s Green New Deal aimed at using billions of OUR taxpayer dollars to try to destroy fossil energy, including natural gas. The swampy left, including its apologists in the media (i.e., PBS), are trying to shame PGW into dropping its membership in the APGA, implying PGW is (via APGA) opposed to having its business destroyed using $700 million from the IRA earmarked for Philly. Imagine that! 
We spotted a couple of stories, one by PBS and another by the financial publication Barron’s, covering the “groundswell” of opposition to resurrecting the 124-mile Pennsylvania-to-New York Constitution Pipeline project. According to a letter signed by “233 environmental and community groups,” the proposed pipeline poses “a serious threat to state sovereignty.” Here’s the first thing to note: Enviro-lefties file paperwork to form a “group” of one or two people. It looks great on letterhead to list hundreds of organizations, implying thousands of people. However, it would be more accurate to say “233 individuals” instead of 233 groups of people. At any rate, we will repeat an observation we have made almost since beginning to write the MDN site in 2009: Many in the anti-fracking and anti-pipeline movement are old (sometimes young) hippies looking to relive the glory days of Vietnam protests. 
A month ago, MDN told you about a meeting held in northeastern Pennsylvania between newly-appointed EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Congressman Rob Bresnahan, several state elected officials, as well as labor and others (see 
Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) was scheduled to consider accepting a petition by radical green groups, including the Clean Air Council and Environmental Integrity Project, to “study” the issue of increasing setbacks for shale drilling so far it would ban ALL new Marcellus/Utica drilling in the Keystone State. Instead of voting to accept the petition, EQB commissioners voted 16 to 3 to table the petition for a future meeting. No doubt this matter will cycle around again, but we can all breathe a sigh of relief for now. 
Ray Kemble and his lawyers are in for a tough court fight. The Susquehanna County (PA) Court of Common Pleas has set a date of October 6, 2025, to hear a “Dimock” case between Kemble (and his lawyers) and Coterra Energy (originally Cabot Oil & Gas), in a case that stretches back to 2017. In a damning decision against Kemble’s lawyers in 2023, the judge found they repeatedly refused to provide documents in the case even though ordered to by the judge (see 
Last year, radical environmental groups (including the Clean Air Council and Environmental Integrity Project) petitioned the state Environmental Quality Board (EQB), asking the board to amend 25 Pa. Code Chapter 78a by increasing “setbacks” for oil and gas well drilling to a minimum of 3,281 feet from any building or water wells (5,280 feet from hospitals and schools), and 750 feet from any river, creek, or mud puddle (i.e., surface waters). Such an increase in setbacks would stop ALL new shale drilling in the state, which is the goal of these radicals. In March of this year, the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), controlled by Josh Shapiro, recommended to the EQB that it accept and seriously consider the proposed rulemaking (see 
It has taken President Trump and his ‘energy dominance’ agenda less than 60 days to put the entire climate juggernaut – over 30 years in the making – at risk of collapse. So says an excellent article by one of our favorite (former) Forbes authors, Tilak Doshi. Trump’s energy team is “charging full steam ahead, firing off policy and regulatory initiatives at a pace designed to overwhelm the capacity of opponents to respond.” It is leaving climate zealots “scrambling to oppose the Trumpian counter-revolution.” This is what winning looks like—and we LOVE it!