Congressman Frank Lucas, using his powers as the Ranking Member of a House committee, has been asking a lot of probing questions of the Biden administration and its agencies. One of the latest is a letter to the Department of Energy to carry out oversight of the agency’s newly created Office of Clean Energy …
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** One of the government’s first non-binary officials has been charged with stealing a woman’s designer suitcase from the baggage claim at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport in September, the New York Post reported. Sam Brinton, the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, initially denied taking the Vera …
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** The U.S. federal government on Saturday granted petroleum company Chevron a limited license to resume pumping oil in Venezuela, marking the potential first step in ending a years-long embargo of Venezuelan oil production by the United States. In a press release, the Treasury Department said it had authorized Chevron to resume “natural resource extraction operations.” ** The …
GHG emissions in Oklahoma follow national trends
A recent report from the Environmental Protection Agency showed greenhouse gas emissions in 2021 across the U.S. indicated a long-term decreasing trend since 2011 and Oklahoma saw the same kind of decline. But the agency also indicated emissions from large industrial sources were about 4% higher than 2020. The EPA said the increase reflected …
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** Federal regulators this week approved a new oil terminal in the Gulf of Mexico off Texas over the objections of local activists, who argued the move contravenes the Biden administration’s stated climate goals. The Transportation Department’s Maritime Administration formally granted the license Nov. 21, ending a process that began under the Trump administration three years ago. ** Chevron Corp …
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** 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 …
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 …