The Oklahoma congressional delegation joins other Republicans in a vote supporting a resolution to overturn the EPA’s tailpipe rule. The Associated Press reports the GOP claims the move by the Biden administration would force people to buy high-price electric vehicles they don’t want. Opponents have called the rule change a “mandate,” but it doesn’t force …
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** An agriculture industry watchdog sues Arkansas-based Tyson Foods for misleading consumers by marketing “climate friendly” beef and pledging to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 despite the near impossibility of mass-producing beef in ways that benefit the climate. ** Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) expressed optimism this week that lawmakers would soon reach a deal to extend radiation …
The spectre of armed EPA agents targeting small businesses and car owners
The auto website known as TheAutoWire.com raised some recent questions about to what extent the Environmental Protection Agency, working in force with the Justice Department, might go in targeting those with so-called “emissions defeat devices.” It pointed out that the latest target of the EPA’s endeavours was Rudy’s Performance Parts which was hit with …
Biden’s EPA hands out $156 million for low income solar power in New Mexico
Intent on supporting the growth of renewable energy sources, the Biden administration announced this week it was giving $156 million to the state of New Mexico to bring rooftop and community solar capacity and battery storage to more than 20,000 low income households. EPA Region 6 Deputy Regional Administrator Stacey Dwyer told those on …
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** The Justice Department filed suit Wednesday seeking more than $100 million from the owner and operator of the container ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore killing six and paralyzing a major transportation artery for the U.S. Northeast. The department is seeking to recover what the U.S. spent in responding to the disaster and …
Energy briefs
** Crude oil remains markedly lower year-to-date, reflecting China’s dour demand outlook and plans by OPEC+ to eventually restore some shuttered output. The headwinds have been partially countered by supply disruptions in Libya and the US and prospects for monetary easing, with investors expecting the Federal Reserve to start lowering interest rates. ** -Permian Resources …
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** Members of an Arizona tribe are trying to persuade a federal judge to extend a temporary ban on exploratory drilling for a lithium project near lands they have used for religious and cultural ceremonies for centuries. Leaders of the Hualapai Tribe and others are scheduled to testify in U.S. District Court before the judge who issued …
Attorney General Drummond wants EPA to continue with block on California’s EV mandate
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said this week he joined a host of other state attorneys general in a fight to have the Environmental Protection maintain a federal legal block on California’s Advanced Clean Fleets regulation. The regulation in question, according to Drummond, “illegally” attempts to impose an electric-truck mandate on fleet owners, operators, and …
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** President Joe Biden has voiced his opposition to Nippon Steel buying U.S. Steel, but the federal government appears to be in no hurry to block the deal. White House officials earlier this month did not deny that the president would formally block the acquisition. But the necessary report from the government’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the …
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** They’re ugly as sin, but new U.S. postal delivery trucks are rolling into service. Once fully deployed, they’ll represent one of the most visible signs of the agency’s 10-year, $40 billion transformation led by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who’s also renovating aging facilities, overhauling the processing and transportation network, and instituting other changes. ** Boeing waited …