He was confronted about the high-emissions ride by Icelandic reporter Johann Bjarni Kolbeinsson, who asked whether the former secretary of state’s private flight was “an environmental way to travel.”
A private jet produces up to 40 times more carbon-dioxide emissions per passenger than a commercial airplane, but Mr. Kerry offered no apologies for his transportation mode, touting his climate bona fides and saying his schedule gave him little choice.
“If you offset your carbon, it’s the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle,” he said. “I negotiated the Paris accords for the United States. I’ve been involved in this fight for years.”
Siren sounds, for different reason, over promise to fight climate crisis
Thursday, January 28, 2021 |
Chris Woodward, Billy Davis (OneNewsNow.com)
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The fossil fuel-hating Biden administration is rolling out a “green” agenda in a crusade to rescue mankind from warming temperatures, with an eye on equity and more union members, but a skeptic of man-made climate change says the real threat is coming from inside the White House.
The plans and promises from the week-old Biden administration are head-spinning. President Biden s executive orders seek to transform the nation s fossil fuel-powered economy into a clean-burning economy. The orders also aim to pause oil and gas leasing on federal land and eliminate any subsidies and tax breaks for the industries that are involved in those efforts and hence despised by environmentalists.
They argue that the department violated federal law, including the Energy Policy Conservation Act, by exempting the newly created class of dishwashers from federal efficiency standards. In addition, such appliances would use more electricity per cycle and thus cost more to run, said the lawsuits.
“As millions of Americans across the country struggle to pay their electricity bills, the Trump administration chooses to dismantle cost-saving energy efficiency standards,” Mr. Becerra said in a statement. “The goal of today’s lawsuit is simple: hold the Department of Energy accountable for its unlawful action and safeguard a program that saves consumers money and decreases pollution to our environment.”
Biden s picks imply problematic plans
Monday, December 28, 2020 |
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Conservatives are taking issue with Joe Biden s selections for EPA administrator, secretary of the interior, and secretary of HHS, and they see what he plans to accomplish behind the scenes if he becomes president of the United States.
Biden has chosen Michael Regan, North Carolina s environment secretary and a former EPA official whom Nature.com describes as a veteran regulator, to run the administration. As for the Department of Interior, Biden wants Representative Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) to serve as secretary.
With these picks,
The Washington Post says Biden is putting environmental justice front and center, and that is where Marc Morano, a skeptic of catastrophic man-made climate change, has concerns.
He found these phrases in a video produced by the World Economic Forum WEF for short. The outreach, Mr. Morano says, is now coming for the greenest icon of the Christmas season.
“The Great Reset/Green New Deal/Build Back Better are all using COVID-19 and a ‘climate emergency,’ to very clearly lay out your future. No private ownership of homes or cars or even Christmas trees,” Mr. Morano said.
“There’s no way around the fact that Christmas has a large carbon footprint, from the traveling we do to the presents we give and the large amounts of food we eat. But it is possible to at least reduce the negative impacts. With climate change and carbon dioxide levels now major sources of concern, surely it is time to see what can be done to be friendlier to the environment, and the Christmas tree is a good place to start,” explained a research article featured at the WEF website, which came with how-to recommendations.