WASHINGTON: Iowa’s Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency has “screwed” the U.S. ethanol industry and farmers by granting waivers to 31 small petroleum refineries, effectively exempting them from an obligation to use more ethanol in their products. The powerful senator, who represents the largest ethanol-producing state in the country, told […]
California sues Trump administration over rollback of Obama clean energy rules
A coalition of 22 states led by California sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over plans to roll back Obama-era clean energy initiatives. The lawsuit seeks to overturn the Affordable Clean Energy rule, a series of regulations introduced by Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler that cut back on plans by the Obama administration to […]
Why Is Trump Suddenly Talking About the Environment?
This week on The Energy Gang: the political reasons for Trump’s messaging on environmental issues. Last week, Donald Trump stood in the East Room of the White House and delivered a speech on his “environmental leadership.” Onlookers called the speech “Orwellian.” The Trump administration has tried to pull America out of a global climate agreement, […]
Democrats Propose a ‘Climate Emergency’ Resolution, Calling for ‘Massive-Scale Mobilization’
After President Trump ignored climate change in an environmental speech, resolutions in the House and Senate seek to raise it to the level of a national emergency. One day after President Donald Trump delivered an environmental policy speech devoid of any mention of climate change, Democrats in Congress are introducing a resolution seeking to declare […]
The Trump-Branded Version of the Clean Power Plan
This week on The Energy Gang: we examine the Trump EPA’s power plant rule, look at the gap between red and blue states on climate change, and review the presidential debates. Trump’s EPA is replacing Obama’s major climate rule with a weaker one. Does it change the market for coal or renewables? In this episode […]
WTO rules for India in dispute with US on solar-panel incentives
The ruling could further inflame US-Indian tensions at a time when the two trade partners are engaged in an escalating tit-for-tat tariff battle A series of U.S. renewable energy incentives violated international trade rules, according to the World Trade Organization, threatening to stoke tensions between the two countries as President Donald Trump prepares to meet […]
New York nears passage of aggressive law to fight climate change
NEW YORK : New York state lawmakers could pass as early as Wednesday one of the nation’s most ambitious plans to slow climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. That would make it the second U.S. state to aim for a carbon-neutral economy, following an executive order signed by former California […]
Ilhan Omar pushes to protect green-energy funding from Trump
WASHINGTON: Ilhan Omar, the first-term representative from Minnesota, is moving to stop the Trump administration from what she says is flagrant abuse of a Department of Energy loan program intended to promote renewable energy. Specifically in her sights is the Appalachian Storage Hub, or ASH, a $10 billion project that stands to benefit from such […]
Ohio House Passes Trump-Backed Bill to Bail Out Nuclear Plants
With the Trump administration’s efforts to prop up coal and nuclear capacity having stalled, Ohio legislators are looking to throw a lifeline to FirstEnergy’s nuclear plants. Ohio state lawmakers are moving ahead on a bill that would gut the state’s renewable energy and energy efficiency funding in order to bail out nuclear power plants owned […]
‘I Know a Lot About Wind’: Donald Trump Finally Tells the Truth, While Lying
Trump has a history of objecting to windmills, presumably because he doesn’t like competition when it comes to making noise. Let no man say that the 45th President of the United States doesn’t tell it like it is. Donald Trump tells it like it is, if ‘it’ refers to a Reddit conspiracy thread. Trump has […]