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In this recent election, the wealthy elite in Berkeley said to environmental activists, “We’ll keep our natural gas. Here’s some money. Go tell the poor people to get rid of theirs.” 

Countless other feel-good attempts at environmental regulation by policymakers intent on fighting climate change exist and many exact a similar toll on consumers, whether they be water-saving faucet requirements that reduce...

The DOE’s regulation applies to electric cooktops, gas cooktops, stand-alone electric cooktops, stand-alone gas cooktops and ovens.

...if I am going to be socked with a nearly half million dollar penalty every year, I will have to look seriously at moving out.

...the City of Berkeley has waded into a domain preempted by Congress,” Patrick Bumatay, a circuit judge on the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and member of the panel, wrote in his opinion.

Utilities give rewards to house builders to install and promote gas appliances in homes – and enlist celebrity chefs to extoll the fossil fuel

Utilities give rewards to house builders to install and promote gas appliances in homes – and enlist celebrity chefs to extoll the fossil fuel

The group also wants governments to develop a plan to electrify all existing properties

Basically, what we’re witnessing is the energy equivalent of ethnic cleansing under the guise of fighting the “existential threat” of anthropogenic global warming.

New rules from the Biden administration's Department of Energy will make most of the ordinary appliances in your home contraband

Even low doses of airborne benzene raise the risk of a variety of cancers, including lymphomas and leukemia

“People need to know that academia is not an innocuous place” … “[Academia] is the epicenter for just about everything bad that you're seeing going on right now.”

You need to prove that you are a big shot. You need to do something big. Maybe you could impose a lockdown. Failing that, banning some appliances that are cheap and work great would be one hell of a day’s work.

The proposed wholesale shift to unwanted technology without proper accounting of costs will be under intense scrutiny this year. 

Calling DOE guilty of “nanny state” behavior insults the inherent maternal (but forgivable) instincts of nannies everywhere to make us do what’s best for us.