Jim Efstathiou Jr.
Natural gas demand threatened by battle over home hookups
NEW YORK - One of the biggest threats facing the natural gas industry is in the home.
Long heralded as an ideal transition from heating...
Trump’s import tariffs will make U.S. wind power more expensive
NEW YORK - President Donald Trump’s trade war won’t wreck the United States wind industry, but it will raise the cost of power.
Tariffs on...
Biggest problem for U.S. offshore wind: Ports are too small
NEW YORK - U.S. offshore wind developers have a space problem.
Giant windmills with rotors that can stretch as high as 600 feet above the ocean’s...
`Made in the U.S.A.’ turbines complicate U.S. offshore wind plan
NEW YORK - With state officials eyeing $56 billion of wind farm projects off the American coastline, developers are worried the turbines will need to...
Weather disasters cost the U.S. a record $306B in 2017
NEW YORK - Extreme weather took an extreme toll on the United States last year.
Losses from weather and climate disasters including hurricanes Harvey, Irma and...
Only once has America seen more billion-dollar weather disasters
NEW YORK - In the year that President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris accord and downplayed global warming as a security threat, the...
No waiting for Obama as states front run U.S. on minimum...
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is pushing to raise the U.S. minimum wage higher than $7.25 an hour – the rate it’s been for...
States clamp down on employers calling workers contractors
NEW YORK - When construction slowed during the recession, some companies hired workers and wrongly designated them as independent contractors to avoid paying insurance,...
Salazar announces streamlined permit process for offshore wind farms
NEW YORK - The United States will move faster to approve wind-power farms off the Atlantic Coast in an effort to attract investors and...