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Harris is strategically silent on climate, but zealots know which side she’s on
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder, as appearing in the New York Post
One word that should have been uttered quite a bit during last week’s Democratic National Convention — “climate,” a top issue for much of the party’s base — was pretty much missing in action. If you’re wondering why, there’s a one-word answer: Pennsylvania.
A new national sacrifice zone
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Sentinel
A couple of years ago I mentioned a report called, “Beyond Carbon-Free: A Framework for Purpose-Led Renewable Energy Procurement and Development.” It was published by an energy company in Seattle, together with the Nature Conservancy and the National Audubon Society. It suggested that the goal of net-zero carbon emissions would require “massive areas of land for development,” perhaps “a footprint of 228,000 square miles — a land area greater than that of Wyoming and Colorado, combined.”
Gov. Newsom’s Venezuela-Like Price Control Proposal on Oil Industry
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as appearing in the California Globe
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California Energy Commission regulators announced earlier this month proposed government controls of the petroleum industry, ostensibly in order to combat future energy price surges. This followed Chevron Oil company’s announcement that it will be moving its headquarters to Houston Texas from San Ramon California.
Air conditioning apartheid at Paris Olympic Games
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder, as appearing in the Washington Times
Oh, the environmental injustice of it all. Organizers of the Paris Olympic Games thought they were going green by building athletic dormitories without supposedly planet-warming air conditioning. As it turns out, the only athletes going green are those from poor countries.
Can the federal government own land forever?
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Sentinel
[T]he just-filed Utah v. U.S. Utah demands that the federal government turn over to the state all remaining “unappropriated” federal lands, that is, lands not designated by Congress as national forests, parks, monuments, wilderness areas, defense installations or tribal lands. In other words, the 18.5 million acres managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
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