by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Is California really experiencing a ‘climate emergency?’ The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors just voted to appoint 13 members to the newly created Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force, following their declaration of a climate emergency. On Dec. 16, [...]
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 Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The Bureau of Land Management has finalized its purchase of a 35,670-acre ranch southwest of Casper, Wyoming, its largest-ever land acquisition in that state. The Marton Ranch, stretching across Natrona and Carbon counties, has been on the BLM’s wish list for [...]
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 Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Support for climate change policies differs by party’ A new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California cleverly conflates climate change, drought, wildfires and the oil and gas industry through dextrous questions and weighted demographics. Here’s [...]
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 [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The headline read, “Supreme Court Reins in EPA on Clean Power Plan.” On the last day of its recent session, the court released its long-anticipated ruling in West Virginia vs. EPA, four consolidated cases representing 19 states, numerous labor unions, utilities, [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in The Washington Examiner "I guarantee you — I guarantee you — we are going to end fossil fuel." So said then-candidate Joe Biden to environmental activists at a campaign rally in 2019. The president has yet to deliver on his promise to [...]
