America Leads the World in Reducing CO2 Emissions – Dropped nearly 20% in past decade – ‘Has nothing to do with windmills or solar panels’ – ‘Cheap natural gas from fracking’ credited
America Leads the World in Reducing Greenhouse Gases The latest data on emissions of carbon dioxide show that the U.S. has reduced our emissions by nearly 20% over the past decade or so. Most HOTLINE readers are smart enough to know this has nothing to do with windmills or solar panels. The real contribution to […]
Earth Day Reminder: Fossil Fuels Feed the World
Earth Day Reminder: Fossil Fuels Feed the World By Vijay Jayaraj Amid Earth Day’s impassioned calls to save the planet for future generations, a disquieting irony emerges: Efforts to eradicate fossil fuels – a linchpin of modern agro-industrial systems – risk severing the very supply chains that make global food security possible. From famine to abundance: […]
Senate votes to end Energy Department standards for gas water heaters
Senate votes to end Energy Department standards for gas water heaters By Maydeen Merino The Senate voted on Thursday to reverse energy conservation standards for gas-powered tankless water heaters implemented by the Biden administration, sending the measure to the Oval Office for President Donald Trump’s signature. In a 53-44 vote, senators approved a resolution that reverses rules set by the […]
Gasoline Prices Plunge – Except in California
Gasoline Prices Plunge – Except in California Via Committee To Unleash Prosperity: Gasoline prices have eased in 31 states as oil has fallen to below $65 a barrel since Trump came into office. But California isn’t one of them. Gov. Gavin Newsom says California’s sky-high gas prices are due to greed by “Big Oil” companies. […]
New York Could Save New Englanders $1B If It Stopped Blocking A Natural Gas Pipeline
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/02/new-york-could-save-new-englanders-1b-if-it-stopped-blocking-a-natural-gas-pipeline/ By: Carol Platt Liebau New York is in an unparalleled position to be a hero and help millions of families and businesses — if it heeds President Donald Trump’s call to build the Constitution Pipeline. The pipeline would route natural gas to New England and could save New Englanders $1 billion in energy costs while providing more […]
Trump ratchets up the appliance war – Energy Sec. Wright: The power to choose appliances ‘should not belong to the federal government’
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2025/03/25/trump-ratchets-up-the-appliance-war-00246978 By CHRISTA MARSHALL The Department of Energy is revving up its war on efficient appliances, aiming to unravel a program at the center of former President Joe Biden’s climate agenda. The department announced Monday it is withdrawing four efficiency standards from the last administration, including a major rule for electric motors that had already been […]
Biden administration lacked the authority to cancel oil and gas leases in Alaska refuge, judge rules
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-arctic-refuge-leases-judge-7a72febfea6cf57f2081a98799d973fc By BECKY BOHRER JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge in Alaska on Tuesday ruled the Biden administration lacked the authority to cancel seven oil and gas leases that had been issued for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason said terms of a 2017 tax law that set the stage for […]
Biden Admin ‘Intentionally Buried’ Inconvenient Study To Justify Major Energy Crackdown of Liquefied Natural Gas, Sources Say
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/18/exclusive-biden-admin-buried-study-lng-crackdown-sources-say/ By Nick Pope The Biden administration deliberately buried a final draft version of a study that would have undermined its January 2024 decision to pause approvals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects, according to four Department of Energy (DOE) sources. Former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and former President Joe Biden announced the LNG freeze in January 2024, […]
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 […]
WaPo: ‘AI giants learn to share Trump’s zeal for fossil fuels’ – ‘Meta, X, Microsoft sidestep climate goals as they sprint to power artificial intelligence with new natural gas plants’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/23/ai-gas-trump-climate-fossil/ By Evan Halper Tech and energy companies are pushing their ambitious green-energy goals aside and rushing to build new natural gas plants across the country, amid escalating demand for power and Washington’s changing political winds. Clean energy pioneer Microsoft is looking to new gas generation to power a $3.3 billion data center project in Wisconsin. The […]