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DAILY ENERGY NEWS | 02/21/2025
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** He who saves his whales does not violate any law. LONG LIVE THE KING!
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Restoration News ([link removed]) (2/19/25) reports: "Whales migrating up and down the East Coast are getting at least a temporary reprieve from offshore wind. So are property owners, homeowners, business owners, tourists, and anyone with a stake in beach communities. The people of New Jersey, Virginia, and other states hope the Trump administration can end these expensive boondoggles once and for all. In New Jersey, the Atlantic Shores South offshore wind energy project President Joe Biden's Interior Department had approved last year has come to a halt. The application of fresh legal pressure in combination with a new executive order from President Donald Trump could prove to be the coup de grace for the project. In Virginia, opponents of Dominion Energy's Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project are asking the Trump administration to reverse the Biden administration's approval for the project, which is
already under way. The public utility's executives insist the Virginia project will still move forward...Both the New Jersey suit and the Virginia suit cite a 'Save the Whales' perspective—bringing in several studies showing how offshore wind power harms marine life. Save LBI has a section of its website devoted entirely to updated research highlighting 'unprecedented spikes in whale deaths' that coincide with vessel surveys for the Atlantic Shores project."
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** "Trump’s rejection of climate orthodoxy matches the aspirations of developing nations striving to ensure energy security and overcome poverty. Expect these countries to be emboldened to more openly pursue their preferred energy strategies and leave the Paris agreement themselves."
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– Vijay Jayaraj, CO2 Coalition ([link removed])

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When the going gets tough, voters don't care about "climate" goals.

** DW ([link removed])
(2/17/25) reports: "When the coalition government comprising the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), Greens and neoliberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) emerged after the last German federal election in the fall of 2021, then-incoming Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) did not object to being called the 'climate chancellor.' That was no surprise: the climate crisis had been a top issue during the election campaign. The new government made the fight against climate change a task for the Economy Ministry and appointed Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck from the Greens as its head. Three and a half years later, campaign speeches barely mention climate protection. The dominant issues are how to curb irregular immigration and how to boost Germany's sluggish economy. The head of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz — who, according to the polls, is most likely to become the next German chancellor — has often said that Germany's approximately 29,000 electricity-generating
wind turbines are a thorn in his side. In November 2024, Merz told public broadcaster ZDF, 'I even believe that if we do things right, we can one day dismantle the wind turbines again — because they are ugly.'"

Administrator Zeldin is doing a tremendous job investigating Big Green, Inc.'s money laundering operation at EPA.

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You'll never guess who was waiting in the water for the gold bricks being thrown off the Titanic.

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(2/19/24) reports: "DOGE discovered $2 billion in taxpayer funds set aside for a fledgling nonprofit linked to perennial Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams. The Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration awarded Power Forward Communities the grant in April 2024 as part of the agency's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. Power Forward Communities received the green energy grant despite the fact that it was founded months earlier in late 2023 and never managed anywhere near the grant's dollar figure—it reported just $100 in total revenue during its first three months in operation, according to its latest tax filings. Power Forward Communities' grant was one of just eight Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants that the EPA doled out in April 2024 and that, altogether, totaled $20 billion. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Feb. 13 that his staff and Department of Government Efficiency officials discovered that the Biden administration parked that same $20
billion at an outside financial institution before leaving office, limiting the federal government's oversight of the program. The revelation that Power Forward Communities is among the beneficiaries of the funds Zeldin's team located raises ethics questions about how the Biden administration selected recipients of such massive grants and whether it played favorites when doling those grants out. "

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