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Biden’s Latest Oil & Gas Drilling ‘Compromise’ Is a Head-Scratcher
In a late Friday news dump this month, the Biden administration announced that it would restart oil and gas drilling on federal lands, offering leases for sale to fossil fuel producers later this year. The new leases would open some 144,000 acres of federal land, scattered across nine states, to oil and gas drilling. These…
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New York City Passes Landmark Bill to Ban New Gas Hookups
Gas will soon be a thing of the past in New York City, thanks to a bill passed on Wednesday by the City Council. It’s a historic bill, one that puts the weight of the largest city in the country behind a growing movement to ban gas and electrify everything.
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Biden Administration Celebrates COP26 by Offering Largest Fossil Fuel Sale in U.S. History
Addressing world leaders at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow earlier this month, President Joe Biden declared this to be a “decisive decade in which we have an opportunity to prove ourselves” on climate. Less than a week after the end of that UN meeting, the Biden administration will hold the largest oil and…
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Rep. Katie Porter Used Her Costco Haul to Embarrass Big Oil
Whenever a smart, powerful woman starts using literal grains of rice to illustrate her point, you know you done goofed. Big Oil companies found that out the hard way when, during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Thursday, Rep. Katie Porter whipped out 212 kilograms of uncooked rice to illustrate how many vacant acres of…