ENB Pub Note: This article is from friends of the Energy News Beat podcast, Ronald Stein and Michael Karbowski, on America Outloud. We are looking to get them on the podcast in a few weeks. Currently, we have about 10 interviews going through production and have lots of news rolling. We highly recommend following Ronald […]
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How a policy sold as climate leadership transferred industrial power, energy security, and emissions to Beijing. David Blackmon put it as bluntly as anyone in energy journalism has: every facet of the West’s net-zero obsession and taxpayer-subsidized “energy transition” is designed, in practice, to benefit one country. That country is China. On September 20, 2026, […]
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to formally rescind the Biden-era carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants, completing a multi-year rollback of greenhouse-gas rules that the administration argues threatened grid reliability and raised costs. Reports indicate the announcement is timed for a G20 energy ministers meeting in Houston […]
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With Dr. Tammy Nemeth, David Blackmon and Stu Turley, this was a wild discussion. In this episode of the Energy Realities podcast, host Stu Turley sits down with Kathryn Porter, energy consultant at Watt-Logic, alongside panelists David Blackmon and Dr. Tammy Nemeth to discuss a critical threat to UK energy security: the collapse of the […]
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The green-steel project was sold as the industrial proof of Net Zero: replace coking coal with hydrogen, swap blast furnaces for electric arc furnaces, keep the mills, cut emissions, and lead the world. In Germany, the United Kingdom, and across the EU, that story is colliding with energy prices, missing hydrogen, cheap imported steel, and […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article first ran on America Outloud by Ronald Stein and Hoshihiro Moronaka. We highly recommend subscribing and reading their stories. Social media, smartphones, computers, and the many electronic devices that did not exist a century ago are being called “addictive.” A similar question is now being asked about the products made […]
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Volkswagen’s board has approved the largest restructuring in the company’s 89-year history: about 100,000 jobs gone by 2030, a slashed model lineup, and four German plants—Emden, Zwickau, Hanover, and Audi’s Neckarsulm—facing a phased wind-down between 2031 and 2034. That is not a cyclical downturn. It is what happens when energy policy prices a manufacturing nation […]
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Michael Bloomberg has poured more than $1 billion into campaigns to retire coal plants in the United States and globally. In 2019, his philanthropies committed $500 million to the Beyond Carbon effort. In 2021, he launched a drive to close a quarter of the world’s remaining coal plants and cancel all proposed ones by 2025. […]
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Britain’s downstream oil sector is shrinking in real time. Two refineries closed in 2025—Grangemouth in April and Lindsey in August—leaving only four operating sites: Fawley, Humber, Pembroke, and Stanlow. Liquid fuels still account for 47 percent of UK final energy consumption. There are no scalable near-term substitutes for diesel in freight, agriculture, and construction or […]
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Energy consultant Kathryn Porter, founder of Watt-Logic, has issued one of the clearest practical warnings yet about the United Kingdom’s electricity system. In her recent Daily Mail piece, she describes a nightmare scenario in which the National Grid collapses under the weight of Net Zero policies: supply-demand imbalance triggers cascading failures, plunging homes, businesses, hospitals, […]
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