by Jane Richey | Sep 5, 2026 | Agenda 21, Events
Pennsylvania is the nation’s largest net exporter of electricity and its second-largest energy producer. Natural resource abundance is not the problem. Neither is investor interest. Over the past seven years, the commonwealth ran the experiment in both directions.With...
by Jane Richey | Jul 21, 2013 | Agenda 21
Their dueling documentaries — the sequel to Fox’s Oscar-nominated “Gasland” aired July 8 on HBO and McAleer’s “FrackNation” aired the following night on AXS — have clear aims when it comes to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the...
by Jane Richey | Apr 8, 2013 | Agenda 21
The divestment campaign began last October, when a student group, called the Brown Divest Coal Campaign, asked the university to stop investing in coal. “We believe that our university should not be profiting from an industry as dangerous and outdated as coal,...
by Jane Richey | Aug 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The RNC launched a research release today, attacking President Obama for killing coal jobs. Using his own words against him, by taking part of a phrase from his earlier gaffe about the private sector, the RNC release says his plan to bankrupt and block coal “is doing...
by Jane Richey | Jun 11, 2012 | Free Markets
Exelon operates three nuclear power plants in Pennsylvania as well as coal, natural gas and renewable energy plants. But the drop in natural gas prices has prompted the company to alter course and lobby against alternative fuels. Since the Chicago-based...
