Once a central plank of the Biden-Harris administration’s climate agenda, the White House’s enormous environmental justice (EJ) spending programs are instead rife with “cronyism,” according to a new report from the House Energy & Commerce Committee. The Inflation Reduction Act’s EJ programs routed billions in taxpayer dollars to the Environmental Protection Agency, which was then
Read More...Gas prices are set to surge across Colorado this summer as a new rule from the EPA goes into effect June 1st. The mandate from the Environmental Protection Agency requiring the use of reformulated gasoline (RFG) in Denver comes as the agency failed to approve a last minute appeal for a waiver from Colorado
Read More...Serving as a guide for companies and policymakers who aim to reduce methane emissions throughout the energy supply chain, API’s newly released Methane Action Plan (“MAP”) creates a blueprint that builds on the industry’s existing actions to reduce emissions through programs like the Environmental Partnership. The plan outlines the need for effective methane regulation that
Read More...EVs Being Forced on Americans by Biden and the Crash Awaits … … [Editor’s Note: Biden’s all-out attempt to shove EVs onto Americans is going to end in a big crash and the warning signs of the approaching boondoggle fiasco are everywhere.] Electric vehicles (EVs) have been heralded as the eco-friendly saviors of our transportation
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – July 22, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone 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. This week: green jobs that cost $7.7 million each to create, the big lie about the
Read More...With only days left until the comment period closes for the Environmental Protection Agency’s controversial tailpipe emissions proposed rule, a diverse group of politicians and industry representatives are bringing attention to various negative effects that the rule would impose on consumers. The Biden EPA and National Highway and Transportation Safety Agency are together proposing new
Read More...From blocking permits that enable carbon capture to leveling a methane tax on oil and natural gas producers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency continues to pursue counterproductive regulations that limit both domestic energy production and productive climate action. Now, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are taking aim at the EPA’s novel methane tax.
Read More...Power Plants or Candles? The Stark Options for Non-Elites! Mark Sertoff NaturalGasNOW Retired Science/Technology Educator and Musician [Editor’s Note: Using unsettled science, Joe Biden and Kathy Hochul want to shut down power plants, forcing a shift to green corporatist boondoggles enriching the already rich.] The EPA’s proposed rules for cutting emissions are so onerous that
Read More...The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are going beyond their statutory authority by enacting rules that effectively force the transition to electric vehicles across the country, argues the Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO) and six other state oil and natural gas trades. Earlier this week, Odessa
Read More...Today, Joseph Goffman, the current principal deputy assistant administrator for the U.S. EPA Office of Air and Radiation, will be the subject of a nomination hearing to be the assistant EPA Administrator for the office of air and radiation. This hearing comes after Goffman’s nomination was deadlocked before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – February 25, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone 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. This week; green grifting, plans to control every breath you take and Biden’s natural gas stove hate.
Read More...Josh Shapiro: Will He Sell Out Labor to Please Enviros? Gordon Tomb Senior Fellow, Commonwealth Foundation Senior Advisor, CO2 Coalition .. …. [Editor’s Note: Josh Shapiro will now face a huge test. Will he, like some many other Dems, sell out his labor allies to please enviros or balance energy and environment?] With Democrat
Read More...Renewable Energy Propaganda from CNBC Fails Smell Test! David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: CNBC is hardly a reliable truth teller but, as David Blackmon notes, its story this week on renewable energy offers more distortions than a fun house mirror. It would take a good 5,000 words to
Read More...Diesel Prices the Result of Anti-American Energy Policies! ... … … [Editor’s Note: Diesel prices have risen to unaffordable levels for many and are a huge factor in inflation and supply chain issues, all caused by anti-American energy policies!] President Biden is complaining about diesel prices and production and his Administration is looking at banning
Read More...Methane Obsession: New York’s Dark and Dangerous Phobia Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York State has a very dangerous and nightmarish phobia over methane that is sadly leading it to jump out of the energy airplane without a parachute.] One
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