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    America Can Take These Steps Toward Energy Independence, Rep. Garret Graves Explains
    As gas prices rise, the Biden administration is “looking for someone to blame, and unfortunately they really just need to turn and look at themselves,” Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., says.  The Biden administration “talks about environmental sustainability, [but] they don’t think about economic sustainability as well,” Graves says, adding that when it comes to energy…
    Virginia Allen
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    US Is World’s Largest Oil and Natural Gas Producer—Despite Biden’s Energy-Constraining Policies
    American energy producers have been punching above their weight, making the U.S. the largest producer of oil and natural gas in the world in less than a decade—with one major caveat. But the good news first. Take liquid natural gas for starters. In October 2021, LNG exporters in the U.S. were operating beyond capacity. And…
    Katie Tubb
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    Oil Soars Beyond $100 Per Barrel for First Time Since 2014
    The worldwide price of crude oil skyrocketed to more than $100 per barrel for the first time since 2014 as Russia launched a full-scale offensive against Ukraine. The Brent crude index, the global oil benchmark, hit $101.66 per barrel Thursday morning, surging more than 4% overnight. The U.S. WTI index skyrocketed nearly 7% to $98.69 per barrel Thursday,…
    Thomas Catenacci
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    Lawsuit Alleges Illegal Tactics in House Democrats’ Climate Probe of Oil Companies
    House Democrats are using privately funded staff to investigate oil companies for spreading “disinformation” on climate change, a possible violation of federal law and the chamber’s own rules, a lawsuit alleges.  A spokesperson for Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, which is conducting the yearlong investigation, said the committee has followed all relevant…
    Fred Lucas
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    How Biden’s Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Threatens ‘Renewed US-Canada Partnership’
    President Joe Biden vowed to holistically “revitalize” U.S.-Canadian relations when he released the “Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership” alongside Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau early last year. The Biden administration co-released the “road map” in the wake of tense trade relations between the Canadian government and the Trump administration. Yet currently, the only renewal…
    Thea Dunlevie
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    Politics of Climate Change Twist Nation’s Tornado Tragedy
    Some politicians and government officials can’t let a crisis go to waste. In the matter of the tornadoes that devastated parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, restraint was called for, but went unanswered. Asked about the cause of such devastation, President Joe Biden said, “We all know everything is more intense when the…
    Cal Thomas
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    Media, Liberals Quick to Blame Deadly Tornadoes on Climate Change
    Media outlets and liberals, including elected Democrats, were quick to blame climate change for the deadly tornadoes that ripped through the Midwest over the weekend. President Joe Biden announced that he would ask the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct an investigation into the role climate change played in the storms that caused fatalities in Kentucky,…
    Thomas Catenacci
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    Pelosi Says Women Face Particular Dangers From Climate Change
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., stated that climate change poses a greater risk to women than men across the world. “[Climate change] is the existential threat of our time,” Pelosi remarked Tuesday at COP26, the ongoing United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, according to The New York Times. “It’s a threat multiplier that amplifies and accelerates existing inequities. Eighty…
    Thomas Catenacci
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    Were Biden’s Claims at COP26 Climate Change Summit Accurate?
    President Joe Biden returned from Scotland early on Wednesday after delivering his climate change agenda at the COP26 climate change summit. From energy policy to the supposed costs imposed by climate change, the president’s remarks covered a range of topics. To better understand the president’s climate change agenda, The Daily Signal spoke with Katie Tubb,…
    Christian Mysliwiec
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    Proposed Electric Vehicle Tax Credits Benefit Unions, Wealthy Individuals—Not Environment
    True to the image of a stereotypical car salesmen, President Joe Biden and congressional leadership are pitching a multitrillion-dollar spending package that they say won’t cost middle-class Americans a dime. That’s like telling someone who came to the dealership to buy a Honda that they can have a Mercedes instead. Sure, if the dealership backloads…
    Katie Tubb | Rachel Greszler
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    LinkedIn Bans Geologist for Climate Change Posts: ‘This Type of Content Is Not Allowed’
    Greg Wrightstone, a geologist and expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has posted content on LinkedIn for years. It would often spark discussions and debates among his followers—and the occasional trolls. That changed last month. Wrightstone, who serves as executive director of the CO2 Coalition, says he was banned from LinkedIn for…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Costly Energy, Climate Policies in Democrats’ Spending Bill Lack Transparency
    Unprecedented is an understatement to describe what’s happening in Congress right now. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are driving Congress to pass a $3.5 trillion spending package to go along with the more than $1 trillion infrastructure bill that passed the Senate in August. Transparency and debate are…
    Katie Tubb
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    Climate Change Is Not a Crisis
    President Joe Biden contends that the recent hurricanes that hit the United States prove we’re in a “climate crisis.” It’s a “code red” for the world, the president warns. White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy added that climate is now a “health emergency.” It is, no doubt, quite convenient for politicians to treat every…
    David Harsanyi
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    Free Trade and Clean Energy Go Together
    “Clean energy” has become a shorthand term for the broad policy debate on how to achieve environmentally safe economic growth and enhance America’s energy security. A joint study recently published by the World Trade Organization and the International Renewable Energy Agency looks at how policies that promote open trade can support cost reductions, product development,…
    Anthony B. Kim
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    Climate Change Report Isn’t a Blank Check for Green Policies
    The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently published the first major installment of its Sixth Assessment Report. It’s a big deal, but it’s not the last word in climate science. Two more sections of the report will be published in the coming year. Taken together, they attempt to define the consensus, scientific view of…
    Katie Tubb
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    High Gasoline Prices and Biden’s Confusing OPEC Request on Oil Production
    In the face of persistently high U.S. gasoline prices this summer, national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced last week that the Biden administration was “engaging with relevant OPEC+ members” to increase oil production. Not only is this confusing because OPEC+ is a cartel of nations competing against private American companies and includes political adversaries of…
    Katie Tubb
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    Pegasus Spyware Revelations a Cautionary Tale of Digital Authoritarianism
    As cybersecurity technology becomes more powerful, so has the technology that is used to hack phones, computers, and other devices. When this technology falls into the wrong hands—for example, a totalitarian government—it can be exploited to create a nightmare scenario for millions of people. Unfortunately, such a scenario recently occurred in multiple countries using Pegasus,…
    Annelise Butler | Carolyn Moorman
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    Tough Questions About Electric Vehicles Unasked, Unanswered by Green Left
    “We need plug-in hybrids!” a young leftie once chirped at me after I addressed students on his college campus. “OK,” I asked. “When you go home and plug your car into the electric socket in the garage, where do you think that electricity comes from?” He stood there in silence for a couple of seconds,…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Facebook Censored My Video Questioning Climate Change Alarmists
    Whom does Facebook trust to censor content posted on its platform? A Ph.D. graduate from France. Really. The Frenchman, Emmanuel Vincent, started a fact-checking group he calls “Climate Feedback.” It does “a new kind of fact-checking.” It sure is new—and wrong. I released a video in which some climate scientists argue that climate change is…
    John Stossel
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    Federal Spending Alone Can’t Buy Energy Innovation
    Committees in the House and Senate are scheduled Thursday to hold hearings on energy innovation. The hearings come in the wake of the American Jobs Plan and the Biden administration’s budget, including massive proposals for taxpayer-backed research, development, demonstration, and commercialization, particularly for energy technologies.     While there is a role for the federal government,…
    Katie Tubb
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