The Petroleum Industry May Want a Carbon Tax, but Biden & Congressional Republicans are Not Necessarily Fans
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08032021/carbon-tax-biden-gina-mccarthy-api-petroleum-industry-ceraweek/ By Marianne Lavelle, Judy Fahys The largest U.S. oil industry trade group is considering an endorsement of carbon taxes for the first time. But the biggest news may be how little that is likely to matter, as U.S. climate policy moves decisively in an entirely different direction. The American Petroleum Institute confirmed […]
GOP group launches ad campaign for carbon tax
http://co2coalition.org/2021/03/17/gop-group-launches-ad-campaign-for-carbon-tax/ GOP group launches ad campaign for carbon taxCO2 Coalition / by CO2Coalition / 2hBy Josh Siegel A Republican-backed group is launching a six-figure ad campaign Wednesday to press Congress to pass a carbon tax, a policy to address climate change that has struggled to find bipartisan support. Americans for Carbon Dividends, the advocacy arm […]
Study: A trillion trees will cost nurseries billions & they ‘can’t grow nearly enough seedlings’
https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2021/03/03/stories/1063726517?utm_campaign=edition&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eenews%3Agreenwire By Marc Heller, E&E News reporter The push to plant billions of trees in the United States to fight climate change is about to run into a supply chain snafu: Nurseries can’t grow nearly enough seedlings. Nurseries would need to more than double their production, to 3 billion seedlings a year, to reforest even […]
Morano on TV: Under Biden & GOP Senate, ‘no Green New Deal passes, unless there are enough Republican votes to do a Green New Deal Lite’
https://www.rebelnews.com/joe_bidens_climate_change_plans_marc_morano Joe Biden’s climate change plans | Marc Morano Rebel News | November 07, 2020 On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, guest host Keean Bexte spoke to Climate Depot’s Marc Morano about a possible Joe Biden presidency and what that could mean for the energy industry. Here’s a bit of what Marc had to say: “The good news […]
A Republican Senate Will Keep Biden in Check? Oh, Please! – ‘Romney is poster child for present-day GOP Senate: pandering, feckless, disloyal, & weak’
https://amgreatness.com/2020/11/06/a-republican-senate-will-keep-biden-in-check-oh-please/ By Julie Kelly If you’re disappointed with Mitch McConnell and company now, just wait until next year if Joe Biden is president. In February 2020, Mitt Romney became the first U.S. senator in history to vote to convict the president of his own party. Despite a laughable impeachment case concocted by House Democrats and […]
Claim: ‘During the Conventions, the Media Needs to Be Treating Climate Like the Emergency’ – ‘It Is It’s not an issue to be discussed. It’s a crisis’
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-democratic-convention/ By Mark Hertsgaard It’s rare to hear the term “climate emergency” in media and political discourse in the United States, even though that is the term thousands of scientists say most accurately describes the situation facing humanity. More than 13,000 scientists have now signed the “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency,” which begins […]
The coming man-made misery if the Green New Deal is enacted
https://www.cfact.org/2020/07/19/the-coming-man-made-misery-if-the-green-new-deal-is-enacted/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-coming-man-made-misery-if-the-green-new-deal-is-enacted By Joe Bastardi I have some progressive friends who refuse to believe that agenda-driven zealots pushing the Green New Deal will be able to enact it because we are so much in debt, we can’t afford it. When has that ever stopped zealots before? In fact why, given the attacks of our nation’s foundational values of […]
Michael Shellenberger: I Was Invited to Testify to Congress on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn’t Let Me Speak – ‘I had the startling experience of being smeared by sitting members’ of House
Yesterday I raised hard questions about the $2 trillion that Biden & the Democrats want to spend on green energy In response, sitting members of Congress publicly smeared me — and then denied me a chance to defend myself Here’s the full ugly story https://t.co/b8Q60fWXnN — Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) July 29, 2020 https://www.thegwpf.com/michael-shellenberger-i-was-invited-to-testify-on-energy-policy-then-democrats-didnt-let-me-speak/ By Michael […]
GOP embraces liberal environmentalism skeptic Shellenberger with radical plan for nuclear energy – Set to testify on Capitol Hill
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/gop-embraces-liberal-environmentalism-skeptic-with-radical-plan-for-nuclear-energy by Josh Siegel Michael Shellenberger, a self-described liberal Democrat who is critical of mainstream environmentalism, is betting on nuclear energy as the dominant fuel of the future. Shellenberger’s views and his status as a critic of climate change “alarmists” are being embraced by House Republicans, who invited him to testify as their witness at a hearing […]
So-called ‘conservative’ climate contract paves way for Green New Deal – Some in GOP call for U.S. to achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2050
https://www.cfact.org/2020/07/09/so-called-conservative-climate-contract-paves-way-for-green-new-deal/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=so-called-conservative-climate-contract-paves-way-for-green-new-deal By Adam Houser There is an age old saying that goes, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Unfortunately, the same can be said with regard to recent attempts by conservatives and Republicans to position themselves as climate change warriors “lite”. Several conservative politicians including Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the current Minority Leader […]