by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Do the authors of AB 1137 understand that by banning existing oil wells, California will be thrust into immediate energy poverty? Senate Bill 1137, gut-and-amend legislation by Democrat Senators Lena Gonzalez and Monique Limón, would require 3,200-foot [...]
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 [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A quantum physicist named Erwin Schrodinger, in a 1935 discussion with Albert Einstein, suggested a concept known as Schrodinger’s Cat, whereby an animal is both alive and dead, depending on unknowable hypothetical circumstances. There is a modern variation, in which someone [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Lawmakers and governor abdicate legislative power to California Air Resources Board of political appointees In California politics, the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, and they don’t seem to care. California will ban the [...]
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 Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel John Muir, founder of the modern environmental movement, spent much of his life working to preserve Yosemite as a national park. He later wrote, “As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Is this optics for a national audience, or does Gov. Gavin Newsom just care very deeply about the climate? California Governor Gavin Newsom is pushing even stricter climate and energy goals, claiming this will prevent the immutable [...]
