From Sam Dorman at Fox News via RealClearEnergy: “The jet belonging to climate czar John Kerry’s family made its way to Idaho, where he and his wife have reportedly vacationed, as he traveled in Asia to promote the Biden administration’s message on the issue.” *** “According to the State Department, the former secretary of state is currently on…
Janet Yellen’s ‘Operation Choke Point’?
Marlo Lewis thoroughly debunks Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s plan to use climate change as a factor in regulating financial lending. (He writes on the Competitive Enterprise Institute blog,) Yellen told the department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council on March 31 that climate change is “an existential threat to our environment” and “a tremendous risk to our…
A Nuclear Future?
With all the Biden administration’s efforts to impose “zero-carbon,” why is so little attention paid to nuclear power? Two officials of the Institute for Energy Research (IER) point out that small nuclear reactors are already being designed in government laboratories in Idaho and Tennessee. But whether they will be built depends on whether the Nuclear…
Court Decides Climate Change Is Not a ‘Nuisance’
Activists have been suing fossil fuel owners on the grounds that they create a nuisance by emitting greenhouse gases. In the most recent case, the City of New York sued Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other oil companies. On April 1, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled against the use of nuisance, which is adjudicated…
Wisconsin’s Controversial Wolf Hunt—Still an Issue
After the gray wolf was delisted as endangered and hunters brought a lawsuit, the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources allowed a wolf hunt in Wisconsin in February—the first since 2014. Its impact is still reverberating, says Field & Stream. The hunt was called off after three days (it was supposed to extend a week) because…
API Endorses Carbon Pricing, But Biden Doesn’t
The American Petroleum Institute, the leading U. S. trade association for the oil and gas industry, has changed its position on carbon pricing. On March 25, it announced that it now supports “sensible legislation that prices carbon across all economic sectors while avoiding regulatory duplication.” The API’s statement of principles on carbon pricing set some…
Curbside Recycling Is Costly—So Make Producers Pay?
There’s a growing clamor for producers of plastic packaging to pay the costs of recycling their materials. On March 25, two Democratic congressmen from California and Oregon introduced a bill that would make such “Extended Producer Responsibility” (EPR) mandatory across the country, reports Waste Dive. That bill follows efforts within at least seven states to…