MasterResource, a free market energy blog, outlines four reasons why alarmists are wrong about climate change.
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The US wants to end its reliance on Chinese lithium. Its policies are doing the opposite.
"The United States desperately needs to hasten the development of supply chains for critical minerals that don’t involve China and Chinese companies for both commercial and national security interests. Unfortunately, current policies, including regulations from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), are doing exactly the opposite. They are hurting demand for electric vehicles, the very products that will incentivize the development of these supply chains. Instead, Washington needs to unleash the power of the US market by removing barriers to accessing capital, fast-tracking manufacturing, providing high-level diplomatic support, and promoting domestic demand."
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Senate Hearing Seeks to Understand Biden Administration’s LNG Export Ban
While the ban will not slow down immediate production, it could have serious implications for the future stability of America’s energy sector and long-term global climate progress.
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Oil and gas lobby moves to embrace green investors
The Independent Petroleum Association of America has launched The ESG Center and is embracing an environmental, social, and governance message to win back investors skeptical that fossil fuels have a future.
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Small Nuclear Reactors Would Provide Carbon-Free Energy, but Would They Be Safe?
"For one thing, each modular reactor can be switched on and off flexibly, meaning that the reactors can be paired as an energy source with the intermittent power generation of renewables like solar and wind, he said.”
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Coalition Aims for 25GW of Green Hydrogen by 2026
“ACWA Power, CWP Renewables, Envision, Iberdrola, Ørsted, Snam and Yara launched a coalition called the Green Hydrogen Catapult with the aim of deploying 25 gigawatts of renewables-based hydrogen production capacity by 2026.”
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Joe Biden’s Green Dreams Mean Greater Dependence on China
"Even if Biden were able to encourage America automakers to rethink their production lines, China still controls the parts.”
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We Can Preserve Jobs, Affordable Energy, and a Clean Environment with the Keystone XL Pipeline
“The inability to move forward with Keystone XL is symbolic of a broader problem with energy projects and infrastructure, generally: the unnecessary delays to build just about anything."
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Policies Come And Policies Go, But The Market Is In The Driver’s Seat
“Yet while these politically-motivated moves appear to be driving our energy policy, lurching first one way, then another, energy researchers say the reality is that markets and emerging technologies are both pushing towards a carbon-free future, regardless of U.S. domestic energy policy.”
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The Biden administration should build, not backtrack, on energy progress
"The top priority must be to continue producing U.S. energy. Over the past four years, the Department of Energy advanced a true all-of-the-above policy that leveraged all fuels and all technologies to enhance our energy and national security as well as hasten the transition to less carbon-intensive fuels by developing nations."
