On the same day of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the first and only British monarch to step foot on Texas soil, another European queen visited the Lone Star State.
Both at home and on the road, Americans are being forced to grapple with higher energy costs, and the EPA will soon stop accepting public comment on new anti-fossil fuel rules
Much of the growth in the plastics industry centers in Texas and Louisiana – the largest subsidy, $3.5 billion, went to a petrochemical plant in Lake Charles.
The president has a lot of leeway to make many unilateral decisions on energy policy with far-reaching impacts on the industry, as Biden has demonstrated, but the flip-flopping between administrations creates regulatory uncertainty for the industry.
The American Waterways Operators also oppose the rule.
“Deb Haaland was one of the worst DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] hires of the Biden-Harris administration, and she can’t become unemployed fast enough," Daniel Turner, executive director of Power the Future said.
Wright testified that the Loans Program Office at the DOE had issued about $40 billion in loans for energy projects over the last 15 years. But in the last 76 days of the Biden administration, that number jumped to $100 billion. Wright said that the rushed loan agreements lacked clauses traditionally required by the DOE.
Industry says solutions won’t cost taxpayers $740 billion, as the Inflation Reduction Act does, or increase the national debt.
Chris Wright is CEO of Liberty Energy, which produces an ESG report that argues that all the conditions of human happiness – food, shelter, health, education and longevity – aren't possible without affordable reliable and secure energy, of which fossil fuels are a leading part.
The Rockefeller Foundation helped launch NPR’s Climate Desk in 2022. Two Rockefeller funds, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Rockefeller Family Fund, are dedicating billions of dollars to fund a range of groups, including the Environmental Integrity Project,