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"We were ready to start using the liquid gold right under our feet. The oil and gas right under our feet. We were going to have something that nobody else had."
Axios (6/28/24) reports: "The debate that's panicking Democrats over President Biden's lack of energy was also very low on energy and climate policy. Why it matters: Biden didn't use the election's biggest stage to stitch "clean" energy infrastructure into his economic appeals throughout the night. Whether by design or not, the lack of emphasis came despite White House and campaign efforts to cast the 2021 infrastructure law and 2022 climate law as job drivers. Democrats appeared especially dismayed that Biden didn't bring up a meeting that Donald Trump held with oil executives in which he reportedly promised to reverse environmental rules but wanted them to donate $1 billion to his campaign. Meanwhile, Trump didn't focus much on his pro-drilling message or re-up his constant attacks on Biden's EV policies. He flicked at this by hitting the 'green new scam' and claiming he made the U.S. 'energy independent' and briefly touted the 'liquid gold under our feet' — but it was all just in passing. The intrigue: Neither candidate even stayed on topic when asked point blank about climate change. Trump immediately pivoted back to a prior question about struggles facing Black Americans. Zoom in: Here's what unfolded when CNN's Dana Bash asked Trump whether he'd take action to "\'slow the climate crisis.' Trump claimed he had the 'best environmental numbers ever' and said the Paris Agreement that he abandoned (Biden re-entered the U.S.) 'was going to cost us a trillion dollars.'"
Much like EVs, the more people are exposed to how renewables work the less likely they are to support them.
E&E News (6/27/24) reports: "A survey released Thursday by the Pew Research Center reveals that older Republicans are driving a decline in Americans’ still-strong support for renewable energy. While solar and wind power remain popular, support for expanding them has waned. In 2020, solar expansion had the backing of 90 percent of those surveyed; that’s dropped to 78 percent. Wind has seen a similar dip, from 83 percent in 2020 to 72 percent now. 'Although there remains broad public support for renewable energy, the breadth of that support is less widespread than it was four years ago or even a year ago,' said Alec Tyson, the report’s lead author and associate director of research at Pew."
R.I.P. Chevron deference.
The Hill (6/28/24) reports: "The Supreme Court took a sledgehammer to executive agencies’ power Friday by overruling a prominent precedent that bolstered their ability to implement regulations in wide areas of American life, including consumer and environmental protections. In an 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority upended a 40-year administrative law precedent that gave agencies across the federal government leeway to interpret ambiguous laws through rulemaking. Known as Chevron deference, the now-overturned legal doctrine instructed judges to defer to agencies in cases where the law is ambiguous. Now, judges will substitute their own best interpretation of the law, instead of deferring to the agencies — effectively making it easier to overturn regulations that govern wide-ranging aspects of American life. This includes rules governing toxic chemicals, drugs and medicine, climate change, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and more."
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Tom Pyle, American Energy Alliance
Daren Bakst, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Phil Kerpen, American Commitment
Andrew Quinlan, Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform
George Landrith, Frontiers of Freedom
Thomas Schatz, Citizens Against Government Waste
Richard Manning, Americans for Limited Government
Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks
Craig Richardson, E&E Legal
Benjamin Zycher, American Enterprise Institute
Jason Hayes, Mackinac Center
David Williams, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Paul Gessing, Rio Grande Foundation
Seton Motley, Less Government
Annette Meeks, Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
Isaac Orr, Center of the American Experiment
David T. Stevenson, Caesar Rodney Institute
John Droz, Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions
Jim Karahalios, Axe the Carbon Tax
Mark Mathis, Clear Energy Alliance
Jack Ekstrom, PolicyWorks America
Jon Sanders, John Locke Foundation
