It’s hard to keep up with what environmental activists are against. (See Ron Bailey on solar geoengineering.) Now it’s carbon capture. Carbon capture (CCS) is the largely experimental technology for removing carbon dioxide during or after a combustion process and then storing it, usually underground. The Biden administration is promoting carbon capture, and this month Energy…
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Bjorn Lomborg: Truths about Electric Cars
“Politicians are spending hundreds of billions of dollars and keeping consumers from the cars they want for virtually no climate benefit.” That’s the bottom line of Bjørn Lomborg’s assessment of electric cars. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the president of the Copenhagen Consensus says: “The climate effect of our electric-car efforts in the 2020s…
No. The Climate Act (“IRA”) Does Not Invalidate the Supreme Court Decision on West Virginia vs. EPA
“Sponsors of the Democrats’ massive, inflation-enhancing, anti-growth, tax-and-spending bill, deceptively titled the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ (IRA), are trying to fabricate legislative history,” writes Marlo Lewis in RealClearEnergy. “According to them, certain IRA provisions were crafted to counteract the Supreme Court’s landmark deregulatory ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, 597 U.S. (2022). The cleverly inserted…
Manchin-Schumer Agreement on Environmental Reviews May Be in Danger
Democratic senator Joe Manchin voted for the “Inflation Reduction Act” because, in a side deal, Senate Majority Leader Schumer agreed to a later bill (to be brought up this month). Supposedly, that agreement would relax environmental reviews of fossil fuel projects such as Western Virginia’s Mountain Valley Pipeline. But, as we reported earlier, Democrats may…
New Jersey Bans Paper Bags—But Reusable Cloth Bags Pile Up Unused
Like a growing number of states, New Jersey has banned single-use plastic bags. But it also bans paper bags. One result: Delivery companies are using heavy-duty reusable bags—but their online customers aren’t reusing them. To meet the letter of the law, delivery companies like Instacart stopped using paper bags and switched to reusable cloth bags…
Three Western States Don’t Want More Natural Gas from Canada
Why? It would make it harder to meet their carbon-dioxide emission goals, say Oregon, California, and Washington officials. Alex Baumhardt writes in the Idaho Capital Sun that TC Energy, a Canadian company, asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in October 2021 if it could increase natural gas delivery by the Gas Transmission Northwest Express…