Energy
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Critics: Climate change lawsuits on tenuous legal grounds
Critics of the lawsuit and others like it say that Congress has had a comprehensive regulatory framework in place for decades and that the oil companies have fully complied.
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Trump announces plan to roll back to 2020 automobile 'environmental standards'
Trump said his administration would "probably go back to a 2020 standard."
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Media blaming climate change for early cherry blossom blooms ignores cause of heat, experts say
It's becoming a tradition every spring for the legacy media to blame climate change for cherry blossoms blooming earlier than average, but experts say this ignores the "Urban Heat Island" effect.
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Officials explore 'once-in-a-generation' opportunity with wind energy
Highlighting the benefits of wind power, Jenny Netherton, from the Southeastern Wind Coalition, emphasized its potential to bolster the Louisiana's energy grid.
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Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act could end up costing taxpayers nearly $5 trillion, study says
An expensive legacy: Originally estimated to only cost about $370 billion, a new study by the Cato Institute finds that the structure of subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act means taxpayers could be on the hook for trillions of dollars over the next 25 years.
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Washington Senate passes bill to speed up carbon emission data updates
The bill’s backers say the change is needed to better set environmental policies and track whether taxpayer dollars spent to meet those goals are spent well.
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Biden-era tax on natural gas repealed, a boon for energy industry
The resolution rescinds that regulation under the Congressional Review Act. The CRA legislation gives Congress the authority to repeal regulations issued during the final months of a previous administration.
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Fishing industry sues over offshore wind farm, says the DOI didn’t properly permit Vineyard Wind
Meghan Lapp, spokesperson for Seafreeze Ltd., said that the offshore wind projects destroy marine habitats that commercial fishermen rely on, and they pose potentially life-threatening risks to the operations.
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Despite $9 trillion spent on net zero goals, fossil fuels to remain dominant energy source: report
Modern prosperity is tied to certain industrial products, including chemicals, steel, cement, food and paper, according to the J.P. Morgan report. Approximately 80% of the energy inputs for these products is fossil fuels.
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Three ballot measures advocate for energy consumer choice
It would prohibit state and local governments in Colorado from banning certain products based on the energy source used, saying that “access to energy to power and heat homes, cook and operate equipment is a matter of statewide concern.”
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Greenpeace-Energy Transfer lawsuit winding down
Greenpeace supported the protests with funding and training, and Energy Transfer has claimed the environmental activist group was behind the protests’ growth into a demonstration large enough to attract worldwide attention and lead to vandalism.
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Illinois stands to become leader in the production of sustainable aviation fuel
At this week’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel and Beyond Conference in Rosemont, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the state is positioned to be a major player in the aviation fuel producing market.
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California stands in way of EPA’s effort to end electric vehicle mandate
To fully end the de facto EV mandate, the Trump administration will have to deal with the third prong of former President Joe Biden’s war on gas-powered cars — the EPA waiver for California’s state-specific Advanced Clean Cars II Regulations, said Kenny Stein, vice president of policy at the Institute for Energy Research.