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Lee Zeldin Says It’s ‘Very Telling’ China Wants To Keep ‘Biden EPA Rule In Place’
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin told reporters Tuesday that it is “very telling” that China would want to keep a “Biden EPA rule in place.”
China Threat Calls for Ideologically Free Energy Policy
Ultimately, energy independence is not merely an economic issue; it is the bedrock of national sovereignty. A nation that cannot power its homes, fuel its industries, and move its military…
The Slowly Mounting Mineral Shock
In minerals, models that minimize or ignore chokepoints and social license realities will steer the world into the very emergencies we want to avoid. We don’t need aspirational scenarios. We…
Place Your Bet on the Future of Energy: U.S. Or China
So how are you going to bet? Here’s my bet: The entire idea of an energy system based on wind, solar and batteries will not work and will fail, probably…
How the West Snookered Itself in Energy Geopolitics
It is not as if the historical and political differences among the three great Eurasian powers – China, India and Russia – will all be resolved quickly under the pressure…
The Folly of Climate Leadership: Britain’s Net Zero Masochism and the China Mirage
Britain, meanwhile, clings to “climate leadership”, the idea that moral example will change the world’s energy trajectory. This is the same delusion that informed Barack Obama’s “grand bargain” with Xi…
Ed Miliband refuses to publish details of green energy deal with China
MPs are up in arms over Miliband’s refusal to publish details of a net zero cooperation deal signed with China.
Skeptics Win, Endangerment Finding Axed – Truth Finally Prevails in The Climate Wars
None of this would have been possible without those who dared to speak up and challenge the narrative, often at great personal and professional cost.
No, Using Less Oil Won’t Boost America’s Energy Security – It’ll Make it Poorer and Beholden to China
Climate cultists and central planners continue to have a grapple hold on university departments. But with the Trumpian counter-revolution in energy policy, Americans can look forward to an energy future…
Trump’s Mineral Policy Offers Strategic Opportunity in the Pacific
President Trump’s executive order calls for research into a potential “international benefit-sharing mechanism for seabed mineral resource extraction and development that occurs in areas beyond the national jurisdiction of any…
China’s Expanding Strategic Footprint in Libya: Energy, Infrastructure, and a New Gateway to Europe
Libya may appear a fragile and fractured state, but to Chinese planners, it represents a gateway—one with the potential to tie Africa, Europe, and Asia together under a new global…
Decarbonization Myth Frays as Hydrocarbon Use Grows
Meanwhile, the digital battleground remains an arena for the ongoing tug-of-war between the realities of economics and physics and fanciful rhetoric about an energy transition. The growth in consumption of…
Claim: Australia’s Renewable Energy Future Requires Realignment With China
“Australia must ditch its distrust and collaborate” – and not purchase any US nuclear submarines.
Deep-sea mining next arena for U.S. – China global rivalry
Seabed mining is environmentally risky with the ever-present threat of a spill that can lead to significant liability. Further, creating domestic processing facilities will require an expedited permitting process and…
Rogue Devices Capable Of Triggering Blackouts Reportedly Found In Chinese Solar Panels
Over the past nine months, “rogue communication devices” not listed in product documents were found in solar power inverters and batteries from several Chinese suppliers, according to sources familiar with the…
Climate Change Weekly # 543 —Current Climate Conditions Aren’t Historically Extreme or Unusual, New Research Shows
Recently, a number of new studies and analyses have been published indicating what readers of CCW have long known: recent climate conditions are not historically unusual. An examination of long-term…
Net Zero Fades As the Deluded Cling to Its Fantasy
Perhaps the fundamental failure of Net Zero was political. Permission was never sought from taxpayers and consumers who would pay the costs and suffer the consequences of an always ill-fated…
Another refinery closure in California increases the States’ dependency on China.
Over the last several decades, California’s passion to transition away from fossil fuels has overregulated and overly burdened just the SUPPLY of oil production and refining but has not reduced…
America’s Last Stand: China’s Smart Battery Dominance
America remains perilously unaware as it approaches a catastrophic ambush—a savvy, ruthless strategy designed to eliminate credible competition in the critical energy and rare earth domain. Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited…