California’s declining oil production and refinery closures, caused by the state’s energy policies, could create an “aviation fuel crisis.” An increasing dependence on imported aviation fuel could threaten national security. Several U.S. military installations, including Travis Air Force Base and Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, rely almost entirely on California refineries for their jet fuel. According to the Energy Information Administration , California ranks first in jet...

While natural gas is preferred by data centers and manufacturers, the Energy Information Administration (EIA), in its Short-Term Energy Outlook, reports that solar power is expected to supply the largest increase in power generation over the next two years, increasing by about 20% a year in both 2026 and 2027, following the addition of almost 70 gigawatts  of new solar capacity. Solar and wind developers are rushing to bring online new capacity before the One Big Beautiful Bill Act phases...

This story is baffling. Bloomberg reports that California is starting to import gasoline from the Bahamas, while the state sits on enormous oil resources it refuses to develop. Bloomberg reports:

"US supplies of gasoline are being shipped out of the country to travel thousands of miles via the Bahamas before finally ending up in California, a state battling shrinking fuelmaking capacity and high pump prices. Shipments on the circuitous route are increasing. California imported more...

President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans ran on a plan for American energy: make it easier to produce and more affordable to purchase. On the eve of President Trump's State of The Union Address, his administration and congressional allies have taken 300 actions to unleash America’s energy potential. A list of those actions appears below.

January 20, 2025 

1. President Donald J. Trump had a whirlwind first day in office on January 20, signing some 200 executive orders ,...

Despite being an oil-rich state and ranking third in refining capacity behind Louisiana and Texas, California has surpassed even Hawaii, which imports practically everything, as the state with the highest average cost of a gallon of gas at $4.63 per gallon, and comes in third  for the highest cost of electricity rates per kilowatt-hour (kWh) at $32.41 per kWh. Most of California’s problems, including and especially high energy costs, are self-imposed and make the state a prime case...

A subsidiary of one of the largest U.S. providers of renewable energy was ordered to pay over $8 million in fines and restitution, after at least 150 eagles were killed at its wind farms in eight states: Wyoming, California, New Mexico, North Dakota, Colorado, Michigan, Arizona and Illinois. ESI Energy, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, was sentenced to five years of probation, after being charged with three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act  for the deaths of nine eagles at...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced “Phase 1” of its rollback of Biden’s “Good Neighbor” rule, which would approve the plans of eight states to address the interstate transport rules for the 2015 eight-hour ozone standards  that the Biden administration rejected as insufficient. The eight states whose plans would now be accepted are Alabama, Arizona, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, and Tennessee. The concept of the “Good Neighbor” rule is...

Electricity outages across the United States reached nearly a million customers early Sunday afternoon, but by 10:30 p.m. Sunday, utility crews had reduced the number of outages to fewer than 805,000, mostly in the South, according to poweroutage.com. Utility generators had to rely on natural gas, coal, and nuclear power to keep the lights on as the lack of sun wiped out solar power and limited wind and/or freezing equipment reduced wind power output. In the Northeast, oil and wood  saved...

Electric vehicle owners reported a loss of range of as much as 30 percent when the polar vortex swept through the Midwestern and Northeastern states in late January. The reason is that lithium-ion batteries are generally most efficient at about 70 degrees . While it varies from vehicle to vehicle, operating in subzero temperatures can cut the range of electric vehicles by as much as half. There are a variety of technical reasons why battery cars routinely deliver less range in extreme...

President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to rescind an Obama-era ruling that currently serves as the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas regulation. The 2009 “endangerment finding” determined that six greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare. Despite Obama’s EPA indicating the rule was based on science, there is no scientific evidence that carbon dioxide is a pollutant or a danger to human health. Criteria pollutants  (e.g., lead, sulfur...