By Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As Appearing in the Wall Street Journal
A small agency in the Energy Department admits the administration can’t reach its climate-change goals.
The Biden administration is committed to an all-of-government implementation of its climate agenda. Every executive- branch agency, including such unlikely ones as the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission, have been drafted to help.
But the Energy Information Administration didn’t get the memo. The EIA, part of the Energy Department, just issued its “Annual Energy Outlook” report for 2023, which contains a startling graph that undermines the president’s climate agenda.
Featured in a media release titled “EIA projects that U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions will fall through 2050,” the report finds that by 2030, U.S. emissions will decline from their 2005 peak by 30%.
But a 30% decline isn’t what the president has been selling. On his first day in office, Mr. Biden issued an executive order recommitting the U.S. to the Paris Climate Accords, which entails a pledge to reduce net U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions at least 50% by 2030 and to zero by 2050.
