A $20 Billion Slush Fund — The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund — Paid by You – ‘Biden admin used so-called ‘climate equity’ to justify handouts of billions of dollars to their far-left friends’
https://www.thefp.com/p/a-20-billion-slush-fund-nonprofits It appears the billions didn’t revitalize anything—except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden administration officials. By Madeleine Rowley The Department of Justice is investigating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion program that was part of Joe Biden’s $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act. Created in the […]
Solar Company That Received $3 Billion Biden Loan Warns It Might Go Bankrupt – Sunnova Energy received largest federal loan to a solar company in history
Solar Company That Received $3 Billion Biden Loan Warns It Might Go Bankrupt By Alana Goodman A politically connected solar company says it has “substantial doubt” it can stay in business, a little over a year after obtaining a $3 billion loan from the Biden administration. Sunnova Energy said on Monday that its current finances […]
Analysis: Yes, coal & natural gas remain much cheaper than wind & solar
https://www.thecentersquare.com/opinion/article_a0cb4eb4-f842-11ef-9d07-2f744ee948c8.html By James Taylor | The Heartland Institute Renewable power advocates often claim wind and solar are less expensive energy sources than coal, natural gas and nuclear power. Such a claim begs the question of why the heavily subsidized Ivanpah solar power facility is going out of business, following a long line of other renewable […]
Wells Fargo drops financed emissions target amid ESG rethink
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/wells-fargo-drops-financed-emissions-target-amid-esg-rethink-2025-02-28/ (Reuters) – (This Feb. 28 story has been corrected to change the attribution to Cushing, not Paddy McCully, in paragraph 10) Wells Fargo (WFC.N), opens new tab is scrapping its goal of achieving net-zero emissions across its financed portfolio by 2050 as banks rethink their sustainable lending activities. The goals had relied on many factors “outside […]
Trump’s EPA Head Lee Zeldin Needs to Undo the ‘Endangerment Finding’
Trump’s EPA Head Lee Zeldin Needs to Undo the ‘Endangerment Finding’ By H. Sterling Burnett At the direction of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his first day back in office, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin was charged with reconsidering whether the EPA’s finding that emissions of carbon dioxide endanger human health, welfare, or […]
Britain’s climate chief claims: ‘Anti-net zero politicians will make voters poorer’ – Still insists ‘changes in homes, cars & diets could help the country hit’ their climate targets
https://www.thetimes.com/article/368fc952-5e28-4435-961c-8b2ee45eabbf?shareToken=fe60c9ba492146e56ae9b22221eca748 Politicians who oppose action on net zero will make their constituents poorer by driving up energy bills, Britain’s climate chief has warned critics. A report released by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) on Wednesday laid out how changes in homes, cars and diets could help the country hit a target of cutting emissions by […]
Virginia Supreme Court rejects youth climate case – Young activists had sought to make case that energy policies are hurting them by worsening the effects of climate change’
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/02/27/virginia-supreme-court-rejects-youth-climate-case-00206343 By: Lesley Clark CLIMATEWIRE | The Virginia Supreme Court has declined to revive a youth-led lawsuit that claimed the state’s permitting of fossil fuels violates the constitutional rights of young people by worsening the effects of climate change. In a brief order issued Tuesday, the court said it was “of the opinion” that the Virginia Court […]
NRDC: ‘Average human exhales about 2.3 pounds of carbon dioxide on an average day’ – Human ‘exhale almost three billion tons of carbon dioxide annually’
NRDC: The average human exhales about 2.3 pounds of carbon dioxide on an average day. (The exact quantity depends on your activity level—a person engaged in vigorous exercise produces up to eight times as much CO2 as his sedentary brethren.) Take this number and multiply by a population of 7 billion people, breathing away for 365.25 days per year, and you get an annual CO2 output of 2.94 billion tons. International carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel combustion for 2008 topped 34.7 billion tons. So the human race breathes out about 8.5 percent as much carbon as we burn.
Experts are quick to point out that this figure is meaningless, since human respiration is part of a “closed loop cycle” in which our carbon dioxide output is matched by the carbon dioxide taken in by the wheat, corn, celery, and Ugli fruit that we eat. …
The amount of carbon that a human breathes out is exactly equal to the amount of carbon he takes in minus the amount of carbon that contributes to the person’s body mass. This means that the human body—like all animals—is a very modest carbon-sequestration device.
BP to drop renewable energy goals in favor of fossil fuels – Oil giant previously wanted to grow its renewable generation capacity 20-fold by 2030
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/bp-renewable-energy-targets-20186821.php By Andrea Guzmán,Texas Brands Reporter BP CEO Murray Auchincloss is announcing plans to ditch the company’s goal of growing renewable generation capacity 20-fold by 2030 and instead return focus to fossil fuels, Reuters reports. The goal measured growth from 2019 figures. If BP had stuck with it, the renewable generation capacity would have been boosted to 50 gigawatts from the […]
Bloomberg Law analysis: Trump’s Energy ‘Emergency’ Sets Up Carbon Capture as a Solution
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/trumps-energy-emergency-sets-up-carbon-capture-as-a-solution By Anastasia Slivker – Scott Burton – Siyi Zhu Norton Rose Fulbright attorneys examine carbon capture policy Green technology has decade-long history of bipartisan support President Donald Trump’s executive orders and energy “emergency” declaration signal the US is going to expand the carbon capture and sequestration policies he focused on during his first administration. […]