Energy
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Just Stop Oil’s ceasing its violent protests part of cultural shift; the ‘Trump effect’ critics say
Critics of climate activism say it’s part of a shift in the national dialogue on climate and energy. Fewer people are still willing to look the other way when climate activists’ behavior turns to vandalism, anarchy in the streets.
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Voters prioritize energy independence over climate change: Poll
According to the poll, 84% of Republicans favor prioritizing American energy independence over the fight for climate change and 31% of Democrats.
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Climate group behind attacks on Stonehenge and paintings announces it will stop ‘hi vis’ protests
In the announcement, the group boasted of having stopped consumers from accessing over 4.4 billion barrels of oil by ensuring oil companies won’t be able to produce them.
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Trump signs executive order to help create mineral supply chains
The executive order states that the U.S. possesses “vast mineral wealth,” but “overbearing federal regulation has eroded the nation’s mineral production.”
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Media frets about free speech in Greenpeace verdict, but ignored treatment of reporters at protest
While the media have become very concerned about free-speech rights in the wake of the ruling against Greenpeace, they showed little concern when the protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and 2017 were restricting and harassing reporters who asked questions or took photos and videos the protesters didn’t like.
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Ohio’s new power policy takes step forward
If passed by the House of Representatives and signed by Gov. Mike DeWine, the bill would end the state’s legacy generation rider and nearly $450,000 in daily subsidies to Ohio Valley Electric Cooperative, the owner and operator of the coal plants.
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North Dakota jury finds Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages
While Greenpeace denied it played more than a peripheral role in the 2016 protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, the pipeline owner claimed the group organized a campaign of misinformation and direct training to the protesters.
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‘An absolute mess’: Residents of Morton County reflect on pipeline protests years later
During the trial's closing arguments, lead counsel for Energy Transfer Trey Cox revisited unsavory scenes from the protests – protestors lobbing “human feces, water bottles full of urine, burning logs” and other items at law enforcement and security..."
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Groups at odds over proposed Ohio energy policy
Power The Future wants to keep taxpayer subsidies in Ohio’s energy plan, which has been riddled by scandal in recent years.
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New York headed for showdown on congestion pricing
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called congestion pricing a “slap in the face” to working-class Americans and small business owners and set a deadline of Friday to shut the program down.
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Republicans push U.S. House bill to end EV mandates
Also known as the “Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act,” the bill was previously proposed by Rep. Walberg of Michigan in 2023 and passed by a Republican-held U.S. House. It then stalled in the Democrat-held U.S. Senate.
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Energy Secretary Wright confirms the DOE had already completed an LNG study before Biden’s ban
Biden paused LNG export permits in order to complete a study of their impact on consumer prices and climate change. Energy Secretary Wright says a study was already complete in 2023 showing that they wouldn't impact prices and would lower emissions.
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California, Sonora team up on clean energy and air
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Sonora Gov. Alfonso Durazo Montaño signed a memorandum of understanding Monday at the Stanford Mansion in Sacramento.