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Biden’s America-Wrecking Climate Agenda
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing on RealClear Politics 

President Biden is driving fossil fuel-powered America into a wall so that he can replace it with a “green energy”-powered America. The Biden administration euphemizes this as a “transition.” It is not. It’s just a collision that will result in America being totaled.

California’s $5-7 per Gallon Gas and Energy Costs Will Get More Expensive
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as Appearing in the California Globe

The first week in December 2018, the United States exported more oil than we imported, for the first time in nearly 70 years. This is known as energy independence. And it happened not because of the previous 50 years of dubious federal “energy programs” heavily regulating oil and gas, while promoting alternative energy, but despite them.

Saving the forests by cutting them?
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Sentinel 

Last week we considered the Biden Administration’s 10-year, $50 billion strategy for addressing the national forest fire crisis. That would more than double the budget of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), to reduce wildfires and restore health to 20 million acres of national forests in the West. Not all across the West, but in a few specific parts of it.

America COMPETES Act: Nancy Pelosi’s climate trap
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Washington Times 

The House Republicans have renamed Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “America COMPETES Act” as the “America CONCEDES Act.” But COMPETES is worse than that. It should be called the “America TRICKED and BETRAYED Act.”

Closer than you might think
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Sentinel 

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has more pundits than ever talking about the role energy plays in world affairs. Many of TV’s most venerated talking heads seem to have discovered, for the first time, that much of Europe depends on Russian oil and gas, and that alternate suppliers, such as the United States, could change that.

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