Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is on a mission, and wants you to support his energy plan away from imported oil and towards natural gas and wind power. But commentator Will Wilkinson says to be wary of what you hear.

This paper, prepared by community noise experts George Kamperman and Richard R. James, was presented at the 2008 International Noise Conference held in Dearborn, Michigan. The abstract of the paper appears below. The full body of the report can be accessed by clicking on the link below.

Testimony from the House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans Oversight Hearing on "Going, Going, Gone? An Assessment of the Global Decline in Bird Populations"

This agreement was drafted by attorneys in the State of Illinois. If adopted as a condition of approving a wind energy facility, the agreement would guarantee property value protections for landowners whose property is located within the footprint of the project site.

Energy expert, Glenn Schleede, explains how federal subsidies make wind power an easy choice for T. Boone Pickens but a losing proposition for American taxpayers.

This document discusses the political reality of global warming, the push for renewable energy alternatives, and the effort by environmental organizations to see fossil fuel electrical power replaced with energy conservation, renewable and clean energy. The conclusions and recommendations of the document are included below. The full document can be accessed by clicking on one of the links below.

This document by Professor Robert J. Michaels and published in Energy Law Journal provides an economist's perspective on a National Renewable Portfolio Standard as considered by the U.S. Government. The synopsis of the document appears below. The full paper can be downloaded by clicking on one of the links below.

Dr. Robert L. Bradley, Jr. ("Why Renewable Energy Is Not Cheap and Not Green") wrote this compeling document for the Institute for Study of Economics and the Environment at Lindenwood University following his lecture last fall. Outsiders viewing Enron’s collapse blamed it on unregulated markets and free-market capitalism. But, Bradley says Enron fell mainly because it was a “politically dependent” firm, not a truly “free-market” company. The list of Enron political initiatives to promote a marketing strategy of “sustainable development” includes: 1) support for the Clinton/Gore 1993 proposal for a Btu tax; 2) aggressive investment in solar power in 1994; 3) the purchase of Zond Corporation in 1996 to start the U.S. wind industry; 4) spearheading of the nation’s most strict renewable energy mandate in Texas in 1999 and 5) unsuccessful lobbying of the Bush/Cheney administration to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. Bradley includes a never-before-published memo from Enron’s man-on-the-scene at the Kyoto climate change meetings. Writing from Kyoto, Enron’s representative predicted: “If implemented [the Kyoto Protocol] will do more to promote Enron’s business than will almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring of the ‘electricity’ and natural gas industries in Europe and the United States….