Biden’s not to blame?! The Atlantic warns of ‘Greenflation’: A ‘new era of climate-driven inflation takes hold’ in America

The Atlantic: The Rise of Greenflation Extreme weather and energy uncertainty are already sending prices soaring. By Robinson Meyer … Over the past year, U.S. consumer prices have risen 7 percent, their fastest rate in nearly four decades, frustrating households and tanking President Joe Biden’s approval rating. And no wonder. High inflation corrodes the basic machinery […]

Virginia “Clean” Economy Act is called ‘a dangerous mistake’

https://www.cfact.org/2022/01/31/tell-lawmakers-the-virginia-clean-economy-act-is-a-dangerous-mistake/ By Craig Rucker  In 2020, the Democrats in Virginia railroaded through a piece of radical climate legislation called the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA). Its goal was to reduce the Commonwealth’s carbon emissions to zero by 2045 and would achieve its ends by bulldozing large amounts of farmland and wilderness to foist the construction of […]

Virginia Senate panel votes down former Trump EPA chief Wheeler, fight not over for Youngkin Cabinet pick

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/592354-virginia-senate-panel-votes-to-pull-wheelers-name-from-nominee-list?utm_source=thehill&utm_medium=widgets&utm_campaign=es_recommended_content A key committee in Virginia’s Democratic-majority state Senate has removed former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Andrew Wheeler, GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s nominee for secretary of natural and historic resources, from a list of Cabinet nominees, signaling the legislature may reject a state Cabinet nominee for the first time in 16 years. The state Senate’s Committee […]

Coming soon: Climate lockdowns?

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/592011-coming-soon-climate-lockdowns BY KRISTIN TATE The past two years have been a checklist for the worst impulses of government and public sentiment. COVID allowed for supposedly temporary measures to morph into two years of “emergency” restrictions. But what if COVID was only the opening act, and another proclaimed crisis is the main event? Implementing significant but […]

Biden officials push to hold up $11.3 billion USPS truck contract, citing climate damage

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/02/02/usps-trucks-epa-climate-change/ The Biden administration launched a last-minute push Wednesday to derail the U.S. Postal Service’s plan to spend billions of dollars on a new fleet of gasoline-powered delivery trucks, citing the damage the polluting vehicles could inflict on the climate and Americans’ health. The dispute over the Postal Service’s plans to spend up to $11.3 […]