Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is again relying on a national network to boost his climate lawsuit by recruiting the plaintiffs’ law firm Sher Edling, one of the key players in the climate litigation campaign, to help represent the state alongside his office. When Ellison filed the lawsuit this summer, there was a noticeable lack of outside counsel present.
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: North Face imagines its customers are idiots and wanted to look like a green hero to them, causing it instead to do a face plant in the snow.] Innovex Downhole Solutions ordered 100 jackets for its workers as Christmas gifts from popular outdoor recreation and clothing giant
Read More...... … … [Editor’s Note: New England, once the land of common sense is now pursuing a Transportation and Climate Initiative that is a fool’s errand by any standard.] The Transportation and Climate Initiative that many East Coast states will be party to is expected to take effect in 2022 with details of the pact being
Read More...Roger DonwayContributor, MasterResource … … [Editor’s Note: Roger Downey focuses on a problem long known to careful readers of the Wall Street Journal or WSJ; its news pages are shallow claptrap when it comes to “green energy.”] Noam Chomsky, MIT’s famously anti-American professor of linguistics, used to say to his audiences something like: All my
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about Warren Buffet, PennEast Pipeline, Landgate and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the Williamsport area on
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. California Wealthy Elites Imposing High Electricity Prices on the Poor Great insights from Energy In Depth on California’s energy problems; they
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board has called out DEP for hasty action in ordering a reroute of the Mariner East pipeline. It’s nice to see Pennsylvania DEP “hoist with his own petard.” Yes, very nice, indeed. That’s what just happened with a decision by the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing
Read More...California municipalities and regulators are pursuing forced electrification mandates at the expense of their residents, according to community leaders and elected officials concerned the state is pursuing flawed policies that are tone deaf to constituents who benefit from low natural gas prices. As Calif. Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) recently explained on the Power Hungry
Read More...The most effective and economically beneficial way to reduce flaring is through the construction of new pipelines to ship associated natural gas to market – a fact that received unanimous agreement during a recent panel discussion on the Permian Basin hosted by Rice University’s Baker Institute. The panelists – which included Rystad Energy’s Mike McCormick,
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The EPA has enacted regulations that now ensure real, honest to goodness, cost benefit analysis will be done in clean air rulemaking. Benefit cost analysis has been a preceding feature of more and more governmental action in recent years, but it’s been a mess as the EPA, not
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Marcellus Shale impact fees help homebuyers with much needed upgrades and repairs, assuring they will be able to keep roofs over their heads. In 2020, the Commonwealth made nearly $46 million in Pennsylvania Housing Affordability and Rehabilitation Enhancement (PHARE) funding available for housing programs. The PHARE fund was
Read More...David KreutzerSenior Economist at Institute for Energy Research … … [Editor’s Note: CO2 levels are panned and hyped as dangerous air pollution, but there’s another side to that argument; there is good news being ignored.] The quote above comes from one of Holden Thorp’s weekly editorials in Science, the most prestigious peer-reviewed science journal in the U.S., if
Read More...A “left-of-center” policy group has released a memo advocating that the incoming Biden Administration embrace the use of natural gas to help meet its climate goals and to compliment the increasing deployment of renewable energy sources. The Progressive Policy Institute published the memo to urge “President-elect Biden to strike a new bargain between the federal
Read More...A fracking ban on federal lands like the one advocated by the Biden presidential campaign would severely harm the economies of eight western states, according to a new study by the Wyoming Energy Authority. The report’s author, University of Wyoming Professor Tim Considine, came to a grim conclusion: “Over all this study finds that there
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania’s arrogant but hapless trust-funder Governor is shunting aside the state legislature in his quest to impose RGGI. Our friend Kevin Mooney, a top-notch investigative reporter for The Daily Signal, is out with another excellent piece exposing the petulant policies of our trust-funder governor, Tom Wolf.
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