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Biden fossil fuel attack: Ambitions versus realities

Michael Shellenberger, the author of Apocalypse Never, said: “Climate change is not the most important environmental problem. Most of the trends are going in the right direction: Deaths from natural disasters are at an all-time low. Carbon emissions in the United States peaked over a decade ago; they’ve been going down ever since. They’ve been going down in wealthy countries for almost 40 years.”

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Opening Biden moves on climate provoke fierce backlash from unions, Democrats in energy states

Climate Change, Energy

by Joseph Curi
Just the News

“President Joe Biden vowed throughout the 2020 presidential campaign that he would come down hard on fossil fuels in an effort to address the ‘existential threat’ of climate change, and now that he’s in the White House, he’s following through on his promises,” says Joseph Curi in Just the News.

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The Keystone Cancellation and Biden’s Climate Cronyism | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Energy

by Jordan McGillis
The American Spectator

“That companies now feel compelled to make direct pleas to the executive branch for the privilege of finishing their work speaks to the rot in our system,” according to the author McGillis.

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Native American Tribe Calls Joe Biden’s Drilling Freeze a ‘Direct Attack’ on Sovereignty

Energy

by Amy Furr
Breitbart

Tribes claim Biden’s drilling freeze is a direct attack on their sovereignty. This principle should apply to states as well.

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Biden’s return to the Paris accord is a gift to China

Climate Change

Editorial Board
Washington Examiner

“Federal action to reduce the world growth of carbon emissions, particularly action as ineffective as that embodied in the Paris accord, should not be taken at the expense of U.S. citizens in relation to foreigners. Yet that is exactly what an immediate return to the Paris accord means,” according to the Washington Examiner.

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Chamber Shifts Position, Backs Emissions Laws

Energy

Hart Energy

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has one again demonstrated that the only business it supports is the mega-corporate business lobby that has always sided with the left. Entrepreneurial small businesses and everyday Americans are sacrificed in the process.

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Keystone XL Update: President Biden Plans To Axe America’s First All-Renewable Energy Pipeline

Climate Change, Energy

David Blackmon
Forbes

Democrats, who still tout themselves as the party of working people, have again demonstrated that they care less about workers, unions and their former base than they do about the hard-left environmental lobby.

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Earth to Joe Biden: Canceling Keystone XL Pipeline Is a Gift to China and Russia

Energy

by Daniel Turner
Real Clear Energy

Joe Biden’s environmentalist-driven compulsion to cancel the XL pipeline will benefit liberal special interest groups, foreign governments, railroads, truck lines — nearly everyone except the American people.

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The U.N. Says America Is Already Cutting So Much Carbon It Doesn’t Need The Paris Climate Accord

Climate Change

by Ellen R. Wald
Forbes

Even as Joe Biden says he will have the U.S. “rejoin” the Paris Climate accord, a new UN report says our country has reduced emissions to such an extent that there is no point in rejoining.

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Outgoing EPA chief says Biden can ‘build off’ Trump actions

Environment

by Abby Smith
Washington Examiner

Outgoing EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler says, ““There isn’t anything that would need to be repealed, regardless of what their position is. If they want to take a different direction, they can build off of it,” according to the Washington Examiner.

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U.S. Shale Could Be The Biggest Winner Of The Latest OPEC Cuts

Energy

by Julianne Geiger
OilPrice.com

According to oilprce.com, “From the drastic oil embargos of the ‘70s to the all-out oil price war of 2020, OPEC policies have threatened to upend the United States’ use and production of crude. But the group’s latest policies may be a lifeline for U.S. shale, which is struggling under the weight of the new pandemic world order.”

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Banks Make a Climate Offering

Climate Change

by The Editorial Board
The Wall Street Journal

Financial institutions are scrambling to cash in on the mother lode of profits they expect to be generated by the climate change fraud supported by their benefactor, Joe Biden.

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The World’s Next Giant Oil Discovery Could Be Here

Energy

by Editor of oilprice.com
Yahoo Finance

According to the authors, “During the Permian era, there was only one continent…And the earth’s vast ocean was teeming with marine plants and animals. This organic matter fell to the bottom of the sea… and over time turned into high-quality thick oil. The world’s most famous Permian formations are currently in the US.”

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Bill Gates bids for private jet operator – one month before he releases climate change book

Climate Change, Energy, Environment

by Rachel Sharp
Daily Mail

Bill Gates makes offer for company that flys over 1.6 million private jet flights per year while lecturing the rest of us on the supposed danger of climate change.

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US energy independence is on the way out

Energy

by Phil Flynn
Fox Business

According to Flynn, “With Biden promising more regulations and a transition off of oil, our days of energy independence may be already behind us. This is a major blow considering what it took to achieve the independence that now too many people are taking for granted.”

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Get ready for more Obama-era green energy scams

Energy

by Stephen Moore
Washington Examiner

“With Democrats about to control all the levers of power in Washington, the biggest winners might be the wind and solar companies. These firms’ stocks continue to surge mostly because President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to invest several hundred billions of dollars in green energy through a pipeline of taxpayer-funded grants, loans, tax credits, and loan guarantees,” according to the Washington Examiner.

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New Trump EPA policy would rule out emissions controls for all industries but power plants

Energy, Environment

by Abby Smith
Washington Examiner

“The Environmental Protection Agency has released a rule setting a new threshold for the agency to meet before it regulates greenhouse gas emissions from an industry, a last-ditch effort to protect businesses from strict climate mandates,” according to the Washington Examiner.

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After 100 years of climate change, ‘climate related deaths’ approach zero

Climate Change

by Anthony Watts
Climate Realism

Climate disasters seem to be rising because of the increased reporting due to the 24-hour news cycle. However, data indicate people are not being put at risk.

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Fracking The Virus: How Oil And Gas Contribute To The Fight Against COVID-19

Energy

by David Blackmon
Forbes

“The oil and natural gas industry has made massive contributions to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic over the last year. Those contributions have gone largely unnoticed by consumers and the news media, and that’s a good thing for all of us,” according to Forbes.

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Oil companies lock in drilling, challenging Biden on climate

Energy

By Matthew Brown and Cathy Bussewitz
AP News

Oil companies are tying up drilling rights throughout the American West, making it difficult for the new Biden administration to restrict new oil and gas wells.

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