- “Climate alarmism is tyranny with green wrapping, delivered with terror.”
- Colorado River Indian tribes can now lease their water to drought-stricken users.
- Senators challenge Department of Labor’s decision to let pensions use ESG (environmental, social, and governance) criteria in investing.
- “The nail in the coffin?” The Biden administration blocks a potential gold and copper mine in Alaska.
- Fish and Wildlife Service knew predictions for Antarctica ice were flawed but used them to list the emperor penguin as a threatened species, says Susan Crockford.
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Biden Administration Blocks Another Mine—for 20 Years
Biden’s Interior Department is preventing mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The Wall Street Journal editorialized on this subject on January 30 (behind a paywall), saying “The Biden Administration is heavily subsidizing electric vehicles, but at the same time it is blocking mineral projects needed to produce them. Another example of this head-scratching contradiction…
Feds to Lend $700 Million for Lithium Mine
A sample of where the “IRA” money is going: The Department of Energy is conditionally planning to lend $700 million to an Australian company, Ioneer, to create a “massive lithium mine in western Nevada,” reports Jeff St. John for Canary Media. (The company will lead an international consortium.) Lithium is a material critical to the…
Who’s Astro-Turfing What?
Activists for renewables are horrified that rural America isn’t eager to have wind turbines or solar panels as part of its landscape. They’re blaming fossil-fuel industry “Astro-turf” groups for stirring up rural resistance. In December, in a (paywalled) New Yorker piece, “From Climate Exhortation to Climate Execution,” Bill McKibben describes the work to be done…
Biden Hypocrisy Overflows, Harming Lobster Fishers and Right Whales
Hypocrisy abounds in the White House when it comes to ocean wildlife along the East Coast of the U.S. On December 1, President Joe Biden hosted a state dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron, at which more than 200 Maine lobsters were served. As noted by The Guardian, just days earlier the retailer Whole Foods…
Threats to Endangered Whales Undermine Biden’s Offshore Wind Ambitions
President Joe Biden’s grandiose plans for offshore industrial wind facilities lining the nation’s coasts have more than a few hurdles to clear before they can become reality. One of those is the fate of endangered North Atlantic right whales, whose migration route is in the bullseye of the offshore wind proposals.