- Gov. Newsom signs a law requiring a “climate change curriculum” in public schools. Connecticut and New Jersey did so earlier.
- On the other hand, Newsom vetoed several waste-related bills because they would be burdensome, especially to small business. (A move to the center?)
- How to capture carbon and federal dollars at the same time.
- Kansas delays retirement of a coal plant to make sure an EV battery factory can be built . . . but the coal industry is expected to lose nearly 1 million jobs by 2050.
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Links: A Beer Shortage Due to Global Warming?
- Tornado damages are down, reports Roger Pielke Jr.
- Nature article predicts beer shortages due to global warming. (HT @curryja)
- The Biden administration’s five-year plan restricting oil and gas leasing: the Biden administration’s, of course.
- But the plan does include a small expansion of oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Biden Revokes Alaska Leases, Plans More Bans in National Petroleum Reserve
The Institute for Energy Research explains how detrimental the president’s recent actions are. “President Biden’s Interior Department has revoked seven remaining oil and natural gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that were sold during the Trump administration and unveiled a proposal to ban new leasing and development on 10.6 million acres of the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska….
Straight Talk on Nuclear Power
Two prominent analysts raise doubts about nuclear power as the “answer” to climate change alarm. Ben Zyker warns conservatives about the costs. “Recent analysis from the Energy Information Administration reports estimates of prospective nuclear electricity production costs more than double those of natural gas-fired electricity. (If we include the cost of backup generation to avoid…
The Money Keeps Coming — For Uncertain Climate Change Ventures
Taxpayer funds are being used for big renewable projects: Dept. of Energy is offering $15.5 billion for retooling auto factories to make EVs. From Canary Media: “Detroit automakers and their joint-venture partners are building clusters of new factories — from Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, down through Kentucky, and across Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas—to assemble…