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‘Tremendously Damaging’: Here’s The Most Aggressive Restrictions Biden’s EPA Pushed On Americans In 2023
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pushed several aggressive climate regulations in 2023 that could seriously harm the American economy, energy policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The agency proposed or finalized rules that would spur the electric vehicle (EV) transition, decrease power grid reliability by imposing costly restrictions on […]
Authoritarian? Conservatives Want to Restore the Constitution. The Left Can’t Handle It.
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tyler O’Neil The Constitution created three branches in the federal government: the legislature to make the laws, the executive branch to enforce the laws, and the judiciary to settle disputes about the laws. Yet the federal government we know and very much do not love doesn’t operate the way the Constitution says it should. Instead, […]
New York City’s Climate Policies Could Make Life Even More ‘Unaffordable’ For The Middle Class
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller New York City is moving forward with several climate policies which are likely to make everyday life even more costly for the middle class in one of the country’s most expensive cities. The city is aiming to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% come 2050, push a sweeping building electrification mandate known […]
Investors Are Turning On A Key Pillar Of Biden’s Climate Agenda
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Investors are backing off of electric vehicle (EV) charging companies, a key player in the Biden administration’s wider climate agenda, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Major companies in the industry— including ChargePoint, EVgo and Blink Charging— have seen their stock prices tumble over the past year as investors worry about […]
Big Wind Closes Out The Year With One Of Its Biggest Defeats Ever
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller A federal judge sided with a Native American tribe in a dispute with a major wind developer on Wednesday, handing a massive defeat to the wind industry to end 2023. U.S. Court of International Trade Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves ordered Enel, a major green energy company based in Rome with an American […]
My Response to an AGW Political Scientist
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. Climate Change proponents and real Science are often at odds. Periodically I’ll republish something I wrote prior to my Substack starting, that is currently relevant, In this case, a few years ago I was asked to write a commentary about the appropriateness of industrial wind energy for the Adirondack Park in upstate NY […]
Green Firm That Advised SEC On Proposed Emissions Rule Sold Carbon Credits From Chinese Region Known For Slave Labor
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Biden administration’s plan to impose climate disclosure requirements on the financial sector draws on the input of a green consultancy that sold carbon credits derived from China’s Xinjiang province, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of public documents. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to release […]
Chinese Communist Party Linked To Funding Climate Activists In The U.S. and U.K.
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Thomas Catenacci, Joe Schoffstall Editors’ Note: Most of us are aware that the CCP has been actively bribing US politicians and gifting money to Confucius centers at universities, but may not be aware of how they operate with NGOs and fund the “environmental movement.” Their activity in environmental matters makes little sense because if […]
DAVID BLACKMON: Biden Admin’s Latest Offshore Lease Proves The Political Class Shouldn’t Make Energy Decisions For Us
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Barely a week after its representatives committed the United States to a COP28 agreement pledging to “transition away” from fossil fuels – oil, natural gas and coal – the Biden government held its first significant auction of offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday. It was not just any old […]
A Higher Education Embarrassment: Brown University Offshore Wind Report is a Disgrace
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. Last week I received an email from an editor of a national media outlet, asking for my comments on a Brown University Report regarding offshore wind energy. I found that this was put out by CDL self-described as: “The Climate and Development Lab is a student-faculty think tank informing a more just, equitable and effective […]
Let’s Block Oil Shipments From Colombia to California
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment /by DrRichSwier.comBy Geoff Ross According to the California Energy Commissioner the majority of California’s crude oil is imported from Colombia, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Additionally. The installed Marxist President currently squatting in the White House, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., the poster child for adult diapers has also resumed oil purchases from Communist Venezuela to keep […]
Another Green Energy Co. Failing after Getting Millions from U.S. Government
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Judicial Watch Reminiscent of the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars Obama dispersed to failed green energy ventures, a struggling solar energy company that received millions from the Biden administration is about to fold. The northern California firm is called SunPower and it is dedicated to energy storage and solar power. Last summer the […]
A Solar Project Plan of Action — How to Defend Citizens’ Rights
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. It may seem like an unusual time of year to discuss this, but I continue to get a LOT of requests for help from citizens fighting solar projects (several this month alone). Solar development is booming — not because it is a net societal benefit, but rather as it is currently […]
Time To Bring Nuclear Energy Into The 21st Century
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jack Spencer The silver lining of this month’s United Nations COP28 global warming conference is the growing consensus that nuclear energy is critical to meeting national carbon dioxide reduction goals. Denying the world access to clean, affordable fuels like gas, oil, and coal is a real problem. But recognizing that nuclear energy must play a pivotal […]
Blue States Are Stripping Rural Counties Of Ability To Prevent Green Energy Takeover Of Their Communities
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Several blue states have deprived rural counties of the ability to reject the massive green energy projects that corporations want to site in their communities, while green industrial interests and environmentalist groups have poured money into state capitals. Michigan, California, New York and Illinois have all passed legislation that consolidates authority […]
UN declares: ‘Whether you like it or not, fossil fuel phase-out inevitable’ – UN ‘is literally psychotic…We have to say HELL NO to idea of Net Zero!’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Marc Morano We’re Saved!? UN declares: ‘Whether you like it or not, fossil fuel phase-out inevitable’ – Morano: UN ‘is literally psychotic…We have to say HELL NO to idea of Net Zero!’ By Marc Morano Morano: “The UN Secretary-General said whether you like it or not, fossil fuels are going away. Well, gee, if that’s […]
Weekend Read: ESG, DEI, and the Rise of Fake Reporting
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy PAUL FRIJTERS, GIGI FOSTER,MICHAEL BAKER We know that the modern West has developed a jaw-dropping degree of totalitarianism, wherein the bureaucracies of the state and the corporate sector coordinate together to cripple humans outside their power networks and media channels. But what are the mechanics of this coordination? To understand one of the games […]
COP 28: Climate Campaigners Freaking Out
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Climate campaigners from Al Gore and John Kerry, down to the oddest imported student radical, are freaking out over the draft final text as the climate talks in Dubai near their conclusion. At issue is whether the “outcome” will call for the “phase out” of fossil fuels, or merely […]
Arizona Chamber Writes Biden Admin Warning About EPA Proposal
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cameron Arcand The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry is one of the many organizations that signed a letter to the Biden administration asking them not to raise the standards for particulate matter. The letter includes signatures from leaders all over the country, including many manufacturing, mining, and oil and gas associations, asking them […]
A New Political Phenomenon: Are We At a Tipping Point?
/in Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel The world is witnessing a major and unexpected political phenomenon. The press likes to call it the rise of “right-wing” or “populist” parties. From Argentina to Italy, to New Zealand to Holland, politicians who are not part of the mainstream of “establishment” political thought are rising to power. The term “right-wing” means […]
$7.5 Billion Dollars Of Tax Payer Money for Electric Vehicle Chargers Nobody Wants
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Geoff Ross The do nothing Congressional UniParty comprised of Republican socialists and Communist Democrats joyfully use your hard earned tax money in the most unconstitutional and imaginative ways. Take for example the $7.5 billion dollars the UniParty congress allocated to the installed Marxist President Joe Biden to build 500,000 Electric Vehicle Chargers (EVs) across […]
COP 28: Climate Colonialism and Anti-Semitism
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Left unchecked, UN climate politics will trap the poor in poverty and drag down millions of others to join them. They would destroy the democratic state of Israel as well. These are not exaggerations. I am at the UN conference in Dubai and have seen and heard these dangerous […]
COP 28: United Nations Scientists Seek Fauci-like ‘Powers’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Marc Morano Gore and Kerry demand phase-out of fossil fuels – ‘Clothing limited to 3 new items per person’. DUBAI — CFACT’s Climate Depot’s Marc Morano Special Reports from DUBAI COP 28 UN Climate Summit Morano: “This is the 18th UN COP climate summit that I have attended in person since my first in […]
The United Nations is Hosting its “DIRTIEST” Climate Conference Ever in Dubai
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow CFACT is at the UN climate conference in Dubai which “Simple Flying” reports “will have the highest carbon footprint in history.” They write that “while Dubai is more commonly known as the hub for aviation giant Emirates, its home at Dubai International Airport (DXB) has also seen a flurry of private […]
COP 28: United Nations’ Fashion Police and Kamala’s Cash
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow They are talking about limiting your access to fashion at the UN climate conference in Dubai. Really. However, V.P. Kamala Harris isn’t worried about limits on her power under the U.S. Constitution. Kamala just pledged $3 billion of your money (Congress didn’t appropriate) to the UN Green Climate Fund. […]
United Nations Targets America’s Energy, Food and Freedom at COP28
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow “Make no mistake,” COP 28, the big UN climate conference in Dubai, is “targeted at America.” That’s what CFACT’s Marc Morano told the Fox News audience, reporting live from Dubai. Watch Marc’s hard-hitting Fox report now at CFACT’s Climate Depot. Thanks to the best supporters any organization ever had, CFACT’s team of […]
President Of UN Climate Confab Says There’s ‘No Science’ Behind Push To Phase Out Fossil Fuels
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the president of this year’s United Nations (UN) climate summit, said that there is “no science” behind calls to eliminate fossil fuels to counter global warming, according to The Guardian. Al Jaber also said that getting rid of fossil fuels would not allow for sustainable economic growth […]
Biden Could Jack Up Food Prices, Wreak Environmental Havoc With ‘Sustainable’ Jet Fuel Subsidies
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Biden administration is set to announce regulatory guidance on subsidies for corn-based “sustainable aviation fuel” that could end up hiking food prices and incentivizing practices that damage the environment. The guidance, expected to be released by the end of the year, would enable SAFs made from corn-based ethanol to more […]
U.S. To Hand Billions To United Nations’ ‘Green Climate Fund’ For Poor Countries
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller President Joe Biden’s administration is committing an additional $3 billion to help developing countries fight climate change, the White House announced Saturday. The allotment will go toward the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund and will be pledged by Vice President Kamala Harris at the COP28 summit in Dubai, according to the […]
MORE HARM: Biden Regime Commits to Shutting Down ALL U.S. Coal Plants To Tackle ‘Climate’ Hoax
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Not for nothing but coal fuels EV.s Where do they think electricity comes from? These people are nuts. They just don’t stop. It’s a frenzied war against this great country and they won’t stop until we’re finished. Kaput. We see how these policies destroyed Europe. You won’t like what comes after […]