In a tongue-in-cheek article in RealClearEnergy, Steve Milloy observes that Norway has figured out how to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions while still building up its oil and gas production by 40 percent, providing a lesson for the rest of the world. Norway is buying “carbon offsets” in the African country of Gabon, paying the Gabonese to…
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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…
Biden’s ’30 by 30′ Plan: 30 percent of U.S. Land ‘Protected’ by 2030
President Biden plans to raise the percentage of land “protected” in the United States from about 12 percent to 30 percent over the next nine years. That would mean protecting an additional area more than four times the size of California. From the White House fact sheet: “The order commits to the goal of conserving…
What Drew Workers to Trump? Elite Environmentalism
William Murray, a former speechwriter for the Environmental Protection Agency, argues that years of tightening environmental regulations slashed working-class jobs and alienated working-class voters. That laid the path for Donald Trump. Many people assume that Trump’s political successes stem from his trade policies and opposition to illegal immigration. No, writes Murray in Quillette: “[T]here is…
Maybe We Shouldn’t Rely on Gas and Oil for Conservation Funding
The newly-passed Great American Outdoors Act will use oil and gas energy taxes to fund the purchase and maintenance of our public lands, but those sources are not as reliable as they once were, say writers from PERC (the Property and Environment Research Center). Tate Watkins and Jack Smith warn against the unreliability of such…
Oops! Maybe Biden Can’t Cut Back on Oil and Gas Drilling, After All
Sweeping election promises are easy, especially when the media don’t examine them. But once the election is over (or nearly over), the truth starts coming out. Juliet Eilperin and Dino Grandoni write in the Washington Post that, yes, last February Biden told a New Hampshire town hall: “And by the way, no more drilling on…