American Enterprise Institute scholar Paul Kupiec thinks it may. In May President Biden authorized the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) to look into how the banking system should be regulated in light of risks from climate change. Writing in The Hill, Kupiec says the latest report of the council suggests a plan could be brewing…
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How the French Will Reduce Carbon Emissions: ‘Publicité’
Beginning in March, auto companies in France will have to include in their ads advice such as promoting carpooling, mass transit. and bicycling. Claire Parker writes in the Washington Post: “Automakers will be able to choose between three messages, according to the rule published in France’s official journal: ‘Consider carpooling,’ ‘For short trips, opt for…
European Union to List Nuclear and Natural Gas as Green Fuels
A European Union proposal would allow new nuclear power and natural gas facilities to be considered “environmentally sustainable.” It is causing an uproar in Europe. Wrote the Guardian: “The draft proposals seen by the Guardian would allow gas and nuclear to be included in the EU ‘taxonomy of environmentally sustainable economic activities,’ subject to certain…
Self-loathing in the West Explains Climate Change Fears, says British Writer
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Janet Daley offers a reason why the West has taken such an obsessive attitude toward climate change and Covid-19: self-blame. “Let us accept for the moment that this is absolutely true: that climate change and the Covid pandemic are unquestionable phenomena just as they are described in the official doctrine…
The Biden Energy Package: 25 Moves That Push Up Prices
Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group, has compiled a list of Biden administration policies that are pushing up prices of energy. A sampling of the 25 actions: #1 and 2: Adopting new EPA oil and gas rules Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced new regulations governing methane emissions from oil and gas production, transmission, storage,…
Zeal for Renewables May Be on the Wane
The all-out effort to push renewables is heading for demise, says Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian. “I have long predicted that this [renewable] program would come to an end when (absent some miraculous innovation that nobody has yet conceived) the usage of the renewables got to a sufficient level that their costs and unworkability…