"From the gas used for cars to the diesel used to operate farm equipment and transport goods across the country, the lives of Americans benefit tremendously through these fuels. And when prices surge to especially high levels, this inevitably causes significant harm, especially to the poorest Americans."
"You can believe it is vitally important to build green energy infrastructure as quickly as possible in order to combat climate change, or you can believe that waiting four years for an environmental review is essential. Lawmakers trying to have it both ways are accomplishing nothing."
"We need permitting reform because we need more energy production. We need more natural gas, more nuclear, more solar, more geothermal, more oil, and more wind. America’s current level of red-tape and our convoluted permitting process makes all energy production frustratingly and unnecessarily difficult."
Conservation is conservative, and conservative ideas will forever be a vital piece of environmental policy. If California's Democratic leadership takes a chance by cooperating with their Republican colleagues, they may discover it is exactly what their state needs.
Climate policy for the sake of the changing climate has to put people first.
"This Climate Week, we have to go beyond the talking points and what sounds good for our climate — we have to actually do what’s good for our climate."
"The U.S. cannot effectively address climate change or increase the nation’s energy production without permitting reform, and permitting reform will be much more valuable with states’ involvement."
"The nation can meet its climate objectives, but we must move quickly. By reforming the permitting process, we can create a dynamic, cheaper clean energy economy in the coming years and ensure that America remains globally competitive into the next century."
"Planning a next generation energy system that balances a cleaner grid with sufficient dispatchable resources like natural gas with non-dispatchable resources to ensure reliability is vital. And there may be a productive role for the federal government to play. But putting a thumb on the scale in favor of one or two chosen resources that are more than capable of competing on their own is not the way to do it."
"The sharp drop supplies from Russia, which previously supplied about 40% of the European Union's gas needs, has left governments scrambling to find alternative energy resources and has prompted fears of possible power cuts and a recession."
