by Jack McEvoy Daily Caller California has passed a new regulation that will ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles; the new emissions rule, which was permitted by the Biden administration, will have wide-ranging effects beyond California and could accelerate the nationwide transition to electric cars. California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) finalized a rule Thursday that [...]
Trevor Schakohl The Daily Caller The Democrat-led climate bill signed into law Aug. 16 grew the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority over energy after the Supreme Court limited it in June, the bill’s text shows, by defining carbon dioxide as an air pollutant. The court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA limited the EPA’s regulatory [...]
by Jack McEvoy The Daily Caller The Biden administration is considering funding the Canadian mining and metal industry as it is desperate to acquire more rare earth minerals to build renewable energy technologies; however, the administration has previously blocked the development of U.S. mining efforts, according to E&E News. Following the passage of the Democrats’ [...]
On August 21, 2022, Fox & Friends covered a story about Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm saying wind and solar power can bring about world peace. E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com founder Steve Milloy's tweeted response was featured in a FOXNews.com story and got a shoutout on Fox & Friends Sunday morning. https://youtu.be/Q-WF9Vo15-E [...]
by Andrew Mark Miller Fox News Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm suggested in a recent interview that the United States’ green energy push will be the "greatest peace plan" in world history. "If we want to be energy secure and energy independent, that means we've got to produce our own energy," Granholm said in an interview with [...]
by Jack McEvoy The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Region 6 department is conducting helicopter flyovers over the Permian Basin to identify “super-emitters” of methane gas among oil and gas operations, according to an Aug. 1 news release. The flyovers will use infrared cameras to inspect hundreds of oil and gas activities in [...]
by Hank Berrien DailyWire.com While President Joe Biden brags about reducing gas prices by releasing gigantic amounts of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), the crucial reserve has plunged to its lowest level of oil since May 1985. Last week, the emergency crude oil stockpile plummeted 4.6 million barrels, leaving 469.9 million barrels, [...]
by Jack McEvoy The Daily Caller Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia sponsored his party’s spending bill shortly before his party leaders promised to expedite permits for crucial energy infrastructure; however, the arrangement could easily fall apart as little protections exist to make permitting reform a reality. President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [...]
by Jack McEvoy The Daily Signal The new spending bill that drew backing from Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., contains funding provisions that could allow the Environmental Protection Agency to work around the Supreme Court’s recent ruling reducing the agency’s ability to regulate emissions from coal plants. The economic package would make $45 million available to [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in The Washington Examiner As climate activists wail in the wake of the setback to their agenda recently delivered by the Supreme Court in its West Virginia v. EPA decision, the rest of us should be grateful that the costly and out-of-control federal [...]
