California Bureaucrats Embrace Water Rationing – Senate bill ‘will limit residential indoor water use’ & require homeowners to justify a ‘water budget’
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/11/california-bureaucrats-embrace-water-rationing/ By EDWARD RING November 3, 2023 What is being put in place today is a misguided set of laws that remove the incentive for water agencies to invest in water abundance. On October 4 the California State Water Board held a hearing to discuss how it will implement Senate Bill 1157, passed by the […]
Oil and gas ‘not the problem’ for climate, says UK’s net zero minister
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/oil-and-gas-not-the-problem-for-climate-says-uks-net-zero-minister Oil and gas are “not the problem” for the climate, but the carbon emissions arising from them are, the UK’s net zero minister has told MPs. In words that suggested the UK could place yet more emphasis on technologies to capture and store carbon, Graham Stuart said fossil fuel production was not driving climate […]
UN climate summit faces fossil fuel production that vastly exceeds climate goals, thus ‘throwing humanity’s future into question’
Among the 20 top fossil fuel-producing countries, the U.S., Brazil and Saudi Arabia foresee significant increases in domestic oil production, while Russia, India and Indonesia all project substantial increases in coal.
Biden & Xi will probably skip UN climate summit COP 28 – But the summit will have Lula, Pope Francis, Bill Gates, John Kerry, Rishi Sunak & King Charles
https://www.politico.eu/article/cop28-un-climate-summit-al-jaber-john-kerry-simon-stiell-madeleine-diouf-sarr-pope-francis-pedroso-cuesta-ruslan-edelgeriyev-xie-zhenhua-bill-gates-vanessa-nakate-khalid-al-mehaid-wopke-heostra/ BY CHARLIE COOPER, SARA SCHONHARDT AND ZIA WEISE The annual U.N. climate summit that starts November 30 has become one of the biggest diplomatic setpieces in the global political calendar. Organizers are expecting more than 70,000 people to descend upon Dubai’s Expo City: activists, billionaires, presidents, Indigenous leaders, business executives, monarchs and diplomats from every corner of the world. […]
Ford dramatically scales back EV plant amid plummeting sales in blow to Biden’s green energy goals – ‘This deal was a disaster from the start’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ford-dramatically-scales-back-ev-plant-plummeting-sales-blow-bidens-green-energy-goals U.S. automaker Ford Motor Company is dramatically scaling back an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant under construction in Michigan as its EV business continues to lose billions of dollars. In an announcement Tuesday, Ford said it would resume the Marshall, Michigan, project, but reduce its scope by more than 40% and the number of jobs it is […]