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SCOTUS Has Crippled Biden’s EPA, But There’s Only One Way To Stop Them For Good
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in The Daily Caller

The Supreme Court has just essentially ended the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to directly regulate greenhouse gases. But don’t expect the Biden EPA to let that stop it.

California to Ban the Sale of Gas Powered Vehicles in just 13 Years
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as appearing in the California Globe

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 sale of all gas powered vehicles in the state in just 13 years, replacing then with electric vehicles. State lawmakers and the governor are abdicating their legislative power to California Air Resources Board of unelected political appointees to issue the ban.

Gasoline has nothing to do with fire
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Sentinel 

A couple of weeks ago a letter to the editor appeared in this paper and six others around the state, asserting that “Removing trees from Colorado forests will not prevent wildfires from burning.”  Really? As if removing all the wood from a campfire would not help put it out?

Biden is exacerbating America’s energy crisis
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, 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 turn the entire U.S. energy system on its head, but given the record high gas prices at the fuel pump, he’s certainly made driving and powering homes punitively unavailable to low-income households.

‘Extreme’ Weather Hysteria is Latest Crisis
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as appearing in the California Globe

It was 105 degrees in Sacramento Sunday. Today it could be 111 degrees. This is what is known as hot summer weather in California. We native Californians also know this is normal.

The Supreme Court pulled us off the regulatory ledge, but rogue agencies are still a problem
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, 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 bureaucracy can now be reined in earlier and more easily.

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