(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
No, no, the Biden administration does not represent some sort of return to Bolshevism (nothing like), but
something about its willingness to insist on ‘short-term’ sacrifice in pursuit of a radiant green future unmoored to any kind of reality is faintly reminiscent of the ruthlessness of an earlier generation of millenarians red rather than green a century ago.
President Biden climate advisor Gina McCarthy said Wednesday that the administration is “not asking for sacrifice” with its executive order to shut down construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
According to the Keystone XL website, the project, initially proposed more than a decade ago, would have sustained about 11,000 U.S. jobs in 2021 – including 8,000 union jobs – and generated $1.6 billion in gross wages.
January 29, 2021 By Waterways Journal
On December 9, the United Nations released an Emissions Gap Report that tracked the progress various nations are making on their commitments to the Paris Climate Accords to reduce carbon emissions to certain targets by 2030. The U.N. has released these reports every year since the accords were signed in 2015.
The report highlights an inconvenient truth that many anti-carbon activists would rather ignore or minimize: The United States is already doing better at reducing its carbon emissions, despite having left the Paris agreements under President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, very few of the countries that signed the Paris agreement are living up to their (non-binding) commitments.
Louisiana senators requesting meeting with President Biden over oil, gas moratoriums
La. Senators say Pres. Biden s oil and gas order will kill thousands of jobs By FOX 8 Staff | January 29, 2021 at 9:49 AM CST - Updated January 29 at 4:08 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Louisiana Senators Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy joined over 20 Republican lawmakers in requesting a meeting with President Joe Biden.
The senators wrote a letter to the president voicing their concerns about the administrationâs recent executive orders halting new oil and gas drilling.
âAs Senators from states where the energy and resource development sectors have provided good-paying jobs for generations . . . we have been surprised by your immediate actions upon taking office that have targeted hundreds of thousands of these jobs in our states and which run counter to your stated goal of creating good-paying jobs and helping struggling American families,â the senators wrote.