Sources: Biden to halt all oil, gas & coal leasing on Federal lands & waters

Biden’s energy and climate incompetence is on already on full display. In a matter of just a few days after being sworn into office Biden has demonstrated his and the Democratic Party’s colossal incompetence and ignorance of energy and climate realities at home and abroad. His idiotic decision to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline is a slap at Canada demonstrating that under his administration investors that play by U.S. rules will be subject to arbitrary political whims that represent nothing but phony fighting climate change “optics” so often relied upon by the Democrats pushing this complete climate alarmist bunk. As addressed in a detailed Wall Street Journal article this project would have provided for moving up to 830,000 barrels of crude oil per day from Alberta oil sands to U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast.
This long environmentally reviewed project has no material impact on greenhouse gas emissions since this crude will still be extracted in any event whether for U.S. benefit or benefit to other adversarial global purchasers. Shipping this crud using rail or tanker would increase CO2 transportation emissions by between 28% to 42% and have higher likelihood of leaks. 
Killing Keystone will strand billions of dollars in Canadian investment alienating a key ally and kill thousands of U.S. jobs including 10,000 American union construction jobs, steel pipe made in the U.S., a 10 million Green Job Training Fund, $500 million for indigenous suppliers and jobs and 100% renewable power to operate the pipeline.
This absurd action by Biden clearly signals that his administration intends to promote energy and climate actions driven by completely irrational “climate panic” propaganda. 
BP’s year 2020 Global Energy Statistical Analysis report provides detailed energy and emissions data over the period 1965 through 2019. For more than a decade the U.S. has been leading the world in reducing CO2 emissions more than any other nation with reductions of over 15 percent since its peak 2007 year amounting to about 1 billion metric tons of CO2 decreases per year with further reductions yet to come. This huge emissions decrease was achieve by using increased amounts low cost natural gas obtained through fracking technology and using this gas to replace much higher emission coal fuel power plants with very high efficiency and lower emissions combined cycle gas turbine power plants.
While the U.S. was leading this more than decade long global CO2 emissions reductions effort the world’s developing nations (which have all signed the Paris Climate Agreement) led by China and India were hugely increasing use of coal fueled power plants and increasing global CO2 emissions by over 5.7 billion metric tons of CO2 per year an amount that greatly exceeds total U.S. CO2 annual emissions. These developing nations have dominated global CO2 emissions for 15 years now and as of 2019 they control 65% of all globe emissions. The developed nations can do nothing to prevent the continuing increase in global CO2 emissions and must not destroy their economies in a futile and misguided effort to due so as cluelessly and dishonestly promoted by the Democratic Party.  
China has been increasing its production of coal fuel since it signed the Paris Climate Agreement with these increases now amounting by over 12 percent of year 2016 levels (the year the Paris Agreement was signed) with year 2019 production levels now at 3.9 billion tons which is the highest coal production in the world. China’s year 2019 total energy use relied upon fossil fuels to provide more than 85% of its total energy needs. China’s use of renewable solar and wind amounted to only about 4.7 percent of its total year 2019 total energy consumption. The Democratic Party uses distortion, deception and dishonestly to falsely champion China as a leader of renewable energy use and emissions reductions while concealing from the American public the huge benefits in CO2 emissions reductions and lower energy costs that the U.S. has achieved by use of low cost high efficiency natural gas obtained through fracking.
The Democrats also falsely promote Germany as an example of the success in increasing use of renewable energy but conceal the huge problems that Germany is now facing with high energy costs and poor electric grid reliability that have been caused by excessive reliance upon costly and unreliable renewables. Germany has spent more than 1 trillion Euros in mandating this change with renewables now accounting for about 40% of its electricity energy. Germany has the highest electricity rates in the EU with average electricity costs about 3 times higher than average electricity rates here in the U.S. Germany is now planning for rationing electricity in order to avoid blackouts because of poor grid reliability caused by excessive use of non dispatchable renewables. The plan includes requiring customers that have more controllable loads to shutdown power for 2 hours each day so blackouts can be avoided. Despite this decades long trillion Euro government mandated renewable program Germany still relied on fossil fuels for meeting about 77% of its year 2019 total energy needs. Germanys CO2 reductions in the last decade amount to about 125 million metric tons per year.
During the last decade the world’s developed nations including the EU and U.S. have reduced global CO2 emissions by about 1.6 billion metric tons per year. All global CO2 emissions increases during the last decade are accounted for solely by the world’s developing nations led by China and India with all these nations having signed the Paris Climate Agreement. China’s annual CO2 emissions are now twice those of the U.S.
Biden is leading the U.S. down a disastrous energy and economic path through the Democratic Party’s bizarre politics that clearly demonstrate its incompetence and ignorance of energy and climate realities.      

They’re blocking domestic production, while China just announced its 20 20coal production was its second highest on record.

We need a national museum of bad energy ideas to break the cycle thinking that promotes certain things that sound good.

For example, hydrogen fool cells and battery electric cars. Sounded good when I was in high school over 60 years ago.

There should be a special wind dedicated to the concept of the circular firing squad. I learned about this working at a nuclear power plant. Environmental zealots would circle the power plant and start shooting. Aim was bad.

In the navy and commercial power plants had lots of technicians and lawyers to ensure regulations were being followed. The cost per kwh is insignificant. Regulations for handling radioactive waste also hit places like hospitals.

I am all for handling hazardous waste properly. Wind and solar are not exempt and produce more on a kwh basis.

However you make electricity or produce fuel on a industrial scale some environmental zealot will be dragging your to court. They will find an example of it not being done right. People like me will provide evidence of how the project does it right and complies with regulations.

The cost of presenting evidence to a judge is not a problem for nuke but a 10 MWe biomass plant designed to improve forest heath will kill the smaller project.

Biden climate BS will not survive a court challenge. Wind and solar do not produce baseload power. I think I could defend in court that producing 10 % bio based transportation fuels to reduce ghg.

If Biden tries to make it hard regulation, the federal goverment will have to provide an EIS (environmental impact statement) showing no significant environmental impact.