Lawmakers often dismiss the White House's budget proposals as dead on arrival, but lawmakers are likely to go along with or exceed some of President Biden's requests on energy and the environment.
Ohio Republican Claims Proposed Plastics Ban Will Collapse Oil and Gas Industry
A three-year ban on plastics production in legislation congressional Democrats are pushing will collapse the oil and gas industry, causing major national economic damage, according to Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio).
“There’s more than one way to skin a cat, and there’s more than one way to achieve a ban on hydraulic fracturing” Johnson told The Epoch Times on May 24 regarding Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm’s recent statement that the Biden administration supports a ban on hydraulic fracking for fossil fuels on all public lands. She made the statement in response to a question from the Ohio Republican at an Energy Subcommittee Hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Follow the science.
It’s a line President Biden used on the 2020 presidential campaign trail and has returned to many times, including in nationally televised remarks after taking office and in March to staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, particularly when addressing the coronavirus pandemic or climate change.
Once elected, Biden announced that he would add the country’s first Cabinet-level science adviser. But grumblings over the mantra began even before he took office. After winning the election on a ‘listen to the scientists’ message, Joe Biden is actually rejecting the global scientific consensus on how to handle the pandemic, writer Branko Marcetic wrote in a December essay for Jacobin, a socialist magazine, arguing in favor of a national lockdown order.
Saudi Aramco May Sell 1 % Stake to Global Energy Company Process Control
Saudi Arabia: Business Deal Saudi Aramco May Sell 1 % Stake to Global Energy Company
20.05.2021Editor: Ahlam Rais
In a recent television interview, the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia stated that the country is in talks to sell 1 % stake in the state-owned oil major Saudi Aramco to a leading energy company. Related Companies (Source: Saudi Aramco)
Dhahran/Saudi Arabia – Saudi Aramco is one of the biggest oil producers in the world and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman has gone on record and mentioned that the country is currently in discussions to sell 1 % stake in the mega oil firm to a leading energy company. Without revealing any details, he said, “I don’t want to give any promises but there’s a discussion