by Andrew Moran | Dec 7, 2018 | Articles, Economic Affairs News
In 1956, geologist M. King Hubbert presented a paper to the American Petroleum Institute in which he warned that new reserve discoveries failed to keep up with the rate of fossil fuel consumption. Hubbert accurately predicted the domestic production peak of the 1970s,...
by Andrew Moran | Jan 25, 2018 | Economic Affairs News
In 2016, Coal Country propelled Donald Trump to the White House. On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly slammed the Obama administration for its environmental policies targeting the coal industry, while regularly promising to bring back jobs to the sector. This was...
by Archived Author | Nov 18, 2017 | Climate Change
One of Norway’s largest companies, Storebrand, has decided to drop Germany’s biggest energy company, RWE, along with nine other companies from its $80 billion pension fund, due to their involvement in the coal industry. Storebrand is present this week at the ongoing...
by Dan Ingram | Feb 18, 2017 | Economic Affairs News, The Dialogue, Trump Administration
A funny thing happened in Pennsylvania during the presidential election of 2016. Besides blowing a huge hole in the theory that its voters were racists, Donald Trump’s historic upset in the Keystone State after two elections of firm support for Barack Obama points to...