A pushback against Biden's climate kook agenda
The pushback continues against Joe Biden’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) rules, put into place in February to consider greenhouse gas emissions and “vulnerable” communities when permitting natural gas pipelines, including criticism from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV).
“At a time when we should be looking for ways to expedite the approval of these important projects, the Commission has chosen on a purely partisan basis to do the exact opposite,” McConnell wrote in a draft of the letter he sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), obtained by Politico. “Erecting new roadblocks to affordable, abundant energy makes no sense, particularly in this tenuous time.”
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Reuters reported on the battle between the production of clean, affordable domestic energy for U.S. consumption and helping European allies who are trying to limit dependence on Russian fossil fuels in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine:
Pipeline companies including Kinder Morgan Inc (KMI.N) and Boardwalk Pipeline have asked FERC not to apply the new review to pending projects. Environmental groups have urged President Joe Biden’s administration not to abandon plans combat climate change in light of energy supply disruptions due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In recent weeks, U.S. lawmakers and energy industry trade groups had called on the Biden administration to ramp up natural gas and oil exports to Europe.
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We should be ramping up the use of natural gas in the US too. It is already clear that Democrats' alternative of wind and solar is not up to the task of delivering reliable energy at a reasonable price. If it were Europe would not need natural gas either.
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