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John Kerry warns Big Oil. Big Oil pushes back Source: By E&E News staff • Posted: Wednesday, March 3, 2021
(Left to right) Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Darren Woods, White House climate envoy John Kerry and Chevron Corp. CEO Mike Wirth. Woods (Exxon); Kerry (Center for American Progress/Flickr); Wirth (Chevron)
White House climate envoy John Kerry starkly warned the oil and gas industry yesterday that it could be left behind if it doesn’t clean up its products and transition to cleaner forms of energy.
The heads of the top three U.S. oil companies said the administration should tread carefully and argued that the world will rely on fossil fuels for decades.
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Print this article Beyond Keystone and Dakota Access, Biden has signaled his administration would make it harder for pipelines to obtain the federal permits they need to be built in the first place, as a way to respond to climate change. Manuel Balce Ceneta
President Biden s pending decision whether to shut down the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline could deepen early tensions between environmentalists and unions that endorsed him.
Biden s day-one order to revoke a permit for the better-known Keystone XL oil pipeline between Canada and the United States drew backlash from organized labor and some centrist Democrats who say the cancellation will kill thousands of construction jobs.
John Kerry, Biden s top climate envoy. | U.S. Embassy
While President Joe Biden’s top climate envoy John Kerry told world leaders at a virtual climate summit that the U.S. will fulfill its commitment to provide financial support to developing countries as they grapple with the deadly consequences of a warming planet, campaigners are urging the U.S. to follow the lead of European Union officials who on Monday pledged to stop subsidizing fossil fuels and instead invest in a just transition toward clean energy.
“Ending government support for fossil fuels is a no-brainer,” Laurie van der Burg of Oil Change International said Monday in a statement responding to the EU’s newly stated commitment to phasing out dirty energy subsidies and helping to fund a global push toward renewable energy. “Globally, governments are still propping up fossil fuels with huge sums of public money, behavior that is incompatible with keeping global warming below 1.5ºC.”
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Embattled Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), already under fire for his support of the Capitol insurrection and the big lie, and for saying he trusted the MAGA domestic terrorists over Black Lives Matter protestors, and for his record of spreading Russian disinformation, is now the target of mockery over his false claim about how Greenland got its name.
There seems to be some GOP fascination with the autonomous territory that is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Although it spans more than 830 square miles, Greenland has a population of just 56,000 people. And President Donald Trump infamously wanted to purchase the island â perhaps because it s the largest in the world â or trade it for Puerto Rico.