#NY Green New Deal will cost taxpayers hundreds of billions

#NY Green New Deal will cost taxpayers hundreds of billions

“NY Green New Deal will cost taxpayers hundreds of billions” Public Service Commissioner John Howard recently warned that the state’s climate-action scheme will cost New Yorkers “hundreds of billions of dollars” — which Albany politicians “totally obfuscated” to push the plan through and refused to fund through taxes. For speaking this clear truth, he was…

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#President Biden is at fault for high gas prices not Putin

#President Biden is at fault for high gas prices not Putin

“President Biden is at fault for high gas prices not Putin” President Joe Biden and prominent Democrats blame Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, alleged oil-company collusion and even COVID-19 for today’s sky-high gas prices. They refuse to take responsibility for this monumental mess of their own design. Revealing either an Olympic-grade lack of self-awareness or…

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#Joe Biden just reminded the nation why the Green New Deal is just not feasible

#Joe Biden just reminded the nation why the Green New Deal is just not feasible

“#Joe Biden just reminded the nation why the Green New Deal is just not feasible” On Monday, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ordered a “code red,” releasing a “landmark” report warning that global warming was an existential threat to humanity, “unequivocally” blaming humans and demanding rapid action to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. “What the…

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#China cranks up carbon-intensive projects as climate crisis grows

#China cranks up carbon-intensive projects as climate crisis grows

“#China cranks up carbon-intensive projects as climate crisis grows” SHANGHAI – China announced scores of new carbon-intensive coal and steel projects in the first half of 2021, research showed on Friday just days after a key U.N. report urged immediate global action to curb use of fossil fuels and prevent runaway climate change. The push comes as climate experts exhort governments around the world to take drastic…

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#Droughts shrink hydropower, pose risk to clean energy

#Droughts shrink hydropower, pose risk to clean energy

“#Droughts shrink hydropower, pose risk to clean energy” SACRAMENTO, Calif./BRASILIA/SHANGHAI – Severe droughts are drying up rivers and reservoirs vital for the production of zero-emissions hydropower in several countries around the globe, in some cases leading governments to rely more heavily on fossil fuels. The emerging problems with hydropower production in places like the United States, China and Brazil…

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#U.N. climate report likely to deliver warnings on warming

#U.N. climate report likely to deliver warnings on warming

“#U.N. climate report likely to deliver warnings on warming” LONDON, Aug 5 – Eight years after its last update on climate science, the United Nations is set to publish a report Monday that will likely deliver even starker warnings about how quickly the planet is warming – and how damaging the impacts might get. Since the last report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2013, both…

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#US drilling approvals increase despite Biden climate pledge

#US drilling approvals increase despite Biden climate pledge

“#US drilling approvals increase despite Biden climate pledge” BILLINGS, Mont. — Approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on U.S. public lands are on pace this year to reach their highest level since George W. Bush was president, underscoring President Joe Biden’s reluctance to more forcefully curb petroleum production in the face of…

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