GOP Favorite Study Trashes Biden's Climate Plans – But Who's Behind It?
"Wyoming representative Liz Cheney says the study proves Biden’s policies would destroy state economies. But it has the oil and gas industry’s fingerprints all over it".
"Wyoming representative Liz Cheney says the study proves Biden’s policies would destroy state economies. But it has the oil and gas industry’s fingerprints all over it".
"A diverse coalition of more than 370 environmental and tribal rights organizations demanded Monday that President Joe Biden act immediately to halt construction of Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline, a multi-billion-dollar crude oil project that the groups called "an urgent threat" to Minnesota waters and the global climate."
"Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday moved to break a GOP blockade over Rep. Deb Haaland’s (D-N.M.) nomination to lead the Interior Department."
"Sen. John Barrasso said Sunday he’d back Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski for reelection, breaking with former President Donald Trump not long after he vowed to campaign against her."
"Earlier this month, Loren Hughes, a longtime resident of the U.S. Virgin Islands, noticed specks of an oily substance covering his home, as well as those owned by his neighbors."
"Twelve states led by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R) filed suit Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, accusing President Joe Biden of exceeding the executive branch’s power in restoring Obama-era values for an analytical tool called the social cost of greenhouse gases."
"The new administration has made clear that its approach to reducing emissions will involve regulation, incentives and other government actions."
"The Interior Department moved one step closer Monday to allowing for the construction of the country’s first commercial-scale offshore wind project."
"The Biden administration voided a Trump-era legal opinion Monday regarding migratory birds and protections that have been in place for over a century."
"As global banking giants and investment firms vow to divest from polluting energy companies, they’re continuing to bankroll another major driver of the climate crisis: food and farming corporations that are responsible, directly or indirectly, for cutting down vast carbon-storing forests and spewing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere."