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Politico: ‘The Biden climate slowdown?’ – ‘Lofty White House goals for slashing’ emissions ‘are hitting another barrier’

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2024/03/01/the-biden-climate-slowdown-00144375 By JACK QUINN Lofty White House goals for slashing carbon pollution during the next 10 years are hitting another barrier. As Jean Chemnick reported Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency is postponing final action on a rule that would limit carbon dioxide emissions from about 2,000 existing gas-fired power plants. The decision is likely to push one of […]

The EU’s Green Deal is going out with a whimper

Via Net Zero Watch: https://mailchi.mp/298bb2d0191b/apple-pulls-the-plug-kills-its-electric-car-201204?e=0b1369f9f8 The EU’s Green Deal is going out with a whimper EurActiv, 28 February 2024 With 99 days to go until the EU elections in June, the narrative of a vibrant Green Deal continues to fall apart. Flushed with their successful defense of the watered-down nature restoration law, progressive lawmakers in the […]

Politico: ‘Democrats pushed climate action. Then utility bills skyrocketed’ – ‘Electricity bills are biting lawmakers in coastal, Democratic-leaning districts’

Politico: California Democrats proudly authored nation-leading clean energy goals that forced the automobile industry to go electric and shaped global climate policy. Then the bill came due. There is intensifying political pressure on state lawmakers to do something about utility bills that have shot up by as much as 127 percent over the last decade. … “Californians are fed up,” said Democratic state Assemblymember Marc Berman at a recent news conference in Sacramento. .. Lawmakers there and in other Democratic states with nation-leading climate objectives — like New York and Massachusetts — are scrambling to make their transitions from fossil fuels affordable before they face an all-out ratepayer revolt. …

“Absolutely high rates can threaten the energy transition, and we should be very concerned,” said Matt Baker, director of the California Public Utilities Commission’s Public Advocates Office. “The energy transition depends on public support, and we have to do whatever we can to maintain that public support. That means doing it in the least-cost manner.” Baker said the state hasn’t seen rate hikes like these since the 1970s. …

California’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, raised its rates over the winter by an average of about $34 per month, or a 127 percent increase over 10 years. A fifth of its customers are behind on their bills, according to an analysis from Baker’s office. The state’s two other major investor-owned utilities are also seeking increases.

Leaked Confidential Leftist Document Details Plot to Pressure Republicans into Protecting Biden’s Radical Green Energy Agenda

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/21/exclusive-leaked-confidential-leftist-document-details-plot-to-pressure-republicans-into-protecting-bidens-radical-green-energy-agenda/ By MATTHEW BOYLE A leaked confidential 66-page document from a top environmentalist association obtained exclusively by Breitbart News reveals a plot by supporters of Democrat President Joe Biden’s signature legislative accomplishment to begin a pressure campaign against Republicans to push them to protect green energy subsidies Biden secured for them. The document, a “February […]

Leading British Physician Says Going NetZero Would Probably Lead To 6 Billion Starving

Leading British Physician Says Going NetZero Would Probably Lead To 6 Billion Starving By P Gosselin on 24. January 2024   Without fossil fuels,” we wouldn’t be able to feed the world”, distinguished scientist warns. We’ll be wrecking our lives the next decades.”  British professor Angus Dalgleish, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and of the Royal College of […]

Planning for climate blackouts

https://www.cfact.org/2024/02/20/planning-for-climate-blackouts/ Note: An earlier version of this article appeared in the spring edition of Range Magazine. http://www.rangemagazine.com/ We are awash in urgent warnings that the electric power grid is increasingly prone to failure. Some of these warnings have come from people who actually oversee the grid, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, The North American […]

Report: Democrats Are Giving Away $1 Trillion In Taxpayer Funds For ‘Green’ Subsidies – Due to ‘Green pork provisions included in Inflation (Reduction) Act’

https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/08/report-democrats-are-giving-away-1-trillion-in-taxpayer-funds-for-green-subsidies/ BY: CHRISTOPHER JACOBS During his time in the Obama administration, then-Vice President Biden once infamously proclaimed that we had to “spend money to keep from going bankrupt.” When he became president, he kept his word — at least when it comes to spending. In an appearance before lawmakers last week, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director […]

Watch Part I of our Alaska report on Conservation Nation today! Let Alaska Develop Its Resources

https://www.cfact.org/2024/02/07/the-biden-threat-to-alaskan-mining/ We just released a new episode of our “wildly” popular original video series, Conservation Nation. In this latest program, host Gabriella Hoffman (who also serves as a CFACT senior policy analyst) journeys to Alaska to look into how mining operations are carried out in this beautiful yet remote state. As CFACT supporters know, Alaska is […]

Retreat from Net Zero is underway: Around the world, unpopular decarbonization policies are being shelved

https://mailchi.mp/51667c079eb7/retreat-from-net-zero-is-underway-200880?e=0b1369f9f8 London, 8 February – A new paper published by Net Zero Watch shows that governments worldwide are starting to ditch decarbonisation policies, as they seek to avoid electoral wipeout. Author Ross Clark shows that the economic pain inflicted by Net Zero policies has now become acute, and that voters are starting to rebel against them: “As you […]

Biden’s latest climate rules crack down on manufacturing, ignoring industry warnings of economic devastation

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-latest-climate-rules-crack-down-manufacturing-ignoring-industry-warnings-economic-devastation By Thomas Catenacci Fox News Biden admin’s actions will ‘grind permits to a halt for a large portion of our country’ The Biden administration finalized regulations severely tightening restrictions on fine particulate matter that the manufacturing and energy sectors are legally allowed to emit, an action that industry said would have devastating economic consequences. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled […]