** The Biden administration will consider energy-price data coming out Tuesday as it weighs measures to stem high gasoline prices, including tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said. ** The projected cost of Dominion Energy’s wind turbine project off Virginia’s coast jumps nearly $2 billion to $9.8 billion. ** All 12 federally recognized tribes in …
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Energy headlines for Monday
** West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin rejected the way his party has approached climate change and China amid the gridlock over President Biden’s Build Back Better spending plan. He pointed out China has 3,000 coal plants while the US has 500. “My environmental friends will make you believe…that the 500 are polluting the whole world,” Manchin said. …
Energy headlines for Friday
** Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives released an updated social spending and climate measure on Wednesday that expands a proposed $12,500 tax credit to pricier zero-emission vehicles, while lowering income limits for eligible buyers. ** President Joe Biden on Tuesday criticized Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin for skipping the United Nations …
Nominee confirmed for EPA’s top lawyer
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jeffery Prieto to become the top lawyer for the Environmental Protection Agency, but it came without the support of Oklahoma U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe and James Lankford. His nomination, recommended last month by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on a 12-8 vote, with member Sen. Inhofe voting …
Energy headlines for Thursday
** As he tries to wrangle environmental support abroad, President Joe Biden faces a new climate challenge in Washington, where the Supreme Court could upend the EPA’s power to regulate carbon emissions under a long-standing air pollution law reports Roll Call. ** Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) is privately questioning a proposed fee on methane emissions targeting …
Simmons: Methane regulations ignore industry efforts
The leader of the Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma, Brook A. Simmons is not letting up on his critical response to the latest proposed methane rule from the Environmental Protection Agency. In yet another statement this week from Simmons, he called the new EPA rule the “most stringent methane emissions regulations ever” and said it …
Rep. Lucas critical of Biden’s methane emissions rules
“Heavy handed regulatory approach” and “unnecessary government mandates,”—-it’s what Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas calls the Biden administration’s new proposed methane emissions regulations that came out Tuesday. As the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Rep. Lucas said the new methane rule is simply a burden on America’s smaller domestic producers. …
Energy headlines for Wednesday
** The refusal of OPEC+ to increase crude oil production is affecting America’s working class, President Biden said at a news conference following the G20 meeting in Rome. The comments made by the U.S. President were later the same day echoed more bluntly by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who directly blamed the OPEC cartel for keeping …
Climate Corps a slush fund for environmentalists?
A Civilian Climate Corps. Sounds like a harmless idea at first, one based on FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s but Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso thinks it’s a wolf hidden in sheep’s clothing. It’s what he suggested in a recent op-ed piece for Fox News. By: U.S. Senator John Barrasso Fox News In …
Other energy headlines
** President Joe Biden wrapped up his time at the Group of 20 summit on Sunday trying to convince Americans and the wider world that he’s got things under control — and taking Russia, China and Saudi Arabia to task for not doing enough to deal with the existential threat of climate change. ** Senate Republican Leader …