A Canadian climate scientist is warning that President Joe Biden’s ambitious electric car proposals could exacerbate human rights abuses around the world where materials for these cars are mined.
Even if homeowners enthusiastically embrace new, unproven heating systems and fuel sellers join the fight against climate change, the Clean Heat Standard will strafe one final group of Vermonters before its destruction is complete: taxpayers.
A bill prohibiting use of “the likeness, features, symbols, traditions or other characteristics” referencing a group of people as school mascots was passed by the Senate.
The Biden administration has pushed green energy in the wake of the Ukraine crisis — saying it would ensure U.S. energy independence — but has failed to address foreign mining and refining dominance, the key to renewable energy security, according to industry leaders.
What was interesting was that some of the climate warriors present weren’t too keen on what has become the centerpiece of the Climate Action Plan, the “clean heat standard.”
Under the legislation, oil companies that produce or import at least 300,000 barrels of oil per day will be hit with a tax worth 50% of the difference between the current cost of oil and the average cost between 2015-2019.
H.697, an act relating to eligibility of reserve forestland for enrollment in the Use Value Appraisal Program, passed in the State House of Representatives on February 25, 2022, by a vote of 83-43.
Rep. Timothy Briglin told the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday that the proposed “clean heat standard” would incentivize carbon-free heating systems and force fuel sellers to pay into a carbon-emissions-based credit system that proponents continue not to call a carbon tax.
According to the requirements of Vermont state law, Vermont must ban the sale of new internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035 — because that’s what California is doing.
That may be a little harsh, but John Kerry is, in my view, a high-ranking climate nitwit.
At a potentially pivotal moment in world history America has the ability to help our people, the people of Ukraine and millions more across the globe by simply out-producing Russia and other unfriendly actors in oil-rich companies.
The White House has repeatedly suggested the private sector can boost oil supply amid surging gas prices, but industry groups have countered that the administration has placed hurdles for new drilling.