** U.S. President Joe Biden’s pledges to slash emissions from farming and to end American hunger by 2030 may be harder to realize now that Republicans flipped the House of Representatives with a thin majority. Biden’s Democrats, who retain control of the Senate, will start negotiating in the coming months with Republican House leaders over a massive …
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Wyoming Senator blasts Biden’s latest energy department nominees
Wyoming U.S. Sen. John Barrasso made it clear Thursday he doesn’t like President Biden’s latest energy nominees. During a hearing of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, a committee which also includes Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, Sen. Barrasso was particularly opposed to the nomination of David Crane to be secretary of …
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** During U.N. climate change negotiations in Egypt on Wednesday, the United States signaled its support for the adoption of language calling for phasing down the use of fossil fuels — a major symbolic shift for the world’s largest oil and gas producer. ** A new study finds Louisiana communities with higher percentages of Black residents see 7 …
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** Campaigning in Georgia on Sunday, Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker said the United States is not ready to implement policies like the Green New Deal that are designed to address climate change. Instead, Walker suggested the country needs to “keep having those gas-guzzling cars” that produce “good emissions.” ** The U.S. is facing a diesel crunch …
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** U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday announced a number of investments in Indonesia spanning areas like climate and food security, including a $2.5 billion agreement between ExxonMobil and state-owned energy company Pertamina on carbon capture. ** The Environmental Protection Agency issued a revised version of its proposed methane rule Friday that would impose tougher measures …
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**Speaking at the UN Climate Summit in Egypt, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Republicans of treating climate change like a “hoax” while other Democrats raise concerns about Republicans’ potential House takeover. ** QuarterNorth Energy, a company involved in oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico, will be laying off 135 employees at its Lafayette office in Louisiana …
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** EPA recommends approving Enterprise-Enbridge offshore crude export terminal near Houston. ** U.S. climate envoy John Kerry announced the creation of a carbon offset plan meant to help developing countries speed their transition away from fossil fuels. Kerry launched the Energy Transition Accelerator (ETA) with the intention of funding renewable energy projects and accelerating clean energy transitions …
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** Wyoming’s oil and gas industry decides not to appeal a judge’s ruling that the Biden administration’s 2021 oil and gas leasing pause was legal. ** Dozens of mylar balloons blow into a Utah substation, leaving more than 22,000 households without power. ** Arguments begin in a Utah youths’ lawsuit over the state’s alleged promotion of fossil fuels and its effects on air …
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** Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during Monday’s White House press briefing that President Biden’s vow to “shut down coal plants all over America” was “twisted” by the press. Addressing the crowd at a rally in San Diego County on Friday, Biden suggested that coal plants should be shuttered because they are no longer economically viable. ** The U.S. Department of …
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** Exxon Mobil Corp will take up to a $2 billion loss on the highly leveraged sale of a troubled California offshore oil and gas field that have been idled since a 2015 pipeline spill. The sale comes after a failed bid this year to restart production at the site and as Exxon culls poor performing businesses. …