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DAILY ENERGY NEWS  | 03/20/2025
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Criminal vandalism is not civil disobedience. It's about time someone stood up to these bullies.


New York Times (3/19/25) reports: "A North Dakota jury on Wednesday awarded damages totaling more than $660 million to the Texas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer, which had sued Greenpeace over its role in protests nearly a decade ago against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The verdict was a major blow to the environmental organization. Greenpeace had said that Energy Transfer’s claimed damages, in the range of $300 million, would be enough to put the group out of business in the United States. The jury on Wednesday awarded far more than that. Greenpeace said it would appeal...Energy Transfer is one of the largest pipeline companies in the country. The protests over its construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline drew national attention and thousands of people to monthslong encampments in 2016 and 2017...But the protests erupted into acts of vandalism and violence at times, alienating people in the surrounding community in the Bismarck-Mandan area...Mr. Cox laced into Greenpeace during closing arguments on Monday. The company accused Greenpeace of funding and supporting attacks and protests that delayed the pipeline’s construction, raised costs and harmed Energy Transfer’s reputation."

“The push for intermittent renewables has led to rising electricity costs and grid instability, issues coal can help resolve. As energy demand surges, abandoning coal is impractical. Instead, investing in cleaner coal technology can ensure energy security, economic growth, and a balanced energy mix that doesn’t sacrifice reliability for political agendas.”

 

–Anthony Watts,
The Heartland Institute

Very creative, GAO, but your memo is DOA.


Washington Free Beacon (3/19/25) reports: "Democrats are relying on a recent memo from the Government Accountability Office to argue that President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans can't pass a bill repealing a Biden-era waiver allowing California to mandate electric vehicles in the state. But legal experts say the memo—whose authors include a prominent DEI activist—isn't legally binding and relies on dubious reasoning. The Government Accountability Office—which conducts audits and analyses for Congress but has minimal legislative authority—published the memo earlier this month just two weeks after Democratic senators Adam Schiff (Calif.), Alex Padilla (Calif.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) asked it to investigate the issue. Media outlets then reported that the memo determined a bill to reverse the Biden-era action is 'illegal' and that the office, therefore, 'blocks' such a bill...'The plain text of the [Congressional Review Act] is very clear that once an agency action is submitted to Congress for review, Congress has the unreviewable power to consider and, if desired, disapprove of that action,' said Kenny Stein, the vice president of policy at the American Energy Alliance. 'There is no provision in the [Congressional Review Act] that GAO must first signal approval prior to Congress acting under the [Congressional Review Act].' Mike McKenna, a Republican energy lobbyist who worked in the White House during the first Trump administration, said he gave the Government Accountability Office an 'A-minus for creativity. D for execution.'"

Biden's billions...


Real Clear Investigations (3/20/25) reports: "Fresh off its decision to claw back $20 billion in “greenhouse gas reduction” money the Biden Environmental Protection Agency parked at Citibank, the Trump administration is setting its sights on another massive chunk of planned green spending receiving less attention...While Solar for All (and much else) remains in limbo, supporters continue to defend it as essential to fight climate change. But critics are denouncing it as a green boondoggle aimed at lining progressives’ pockets. Sixty Solar For All grants have been earmarked for various state and tribal agencies, as well as other green energy nonprofits that rely on public funding for much of their work...'These grant programs are the most blatant instances of self-dealing I’ve ever witnessed,' said Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, one of 50 free market-oriented groups that called on Congress to repeal the IRA’s climate spending. 'The Biden administration and Democrats in Congress loaded the IRA with billions of dollars of walking around money to fund organizations – some of which didn’t even materialize until after the bill was passed – to promote and advance the green agenda at the expense of American taxpayers and families,' Pyle said...For now, Pyle said, 'The Trump administration was correct in freezing these funds,' but he thinks 'Republicans in Congress should immediately terminate these programs.'"

Did Secretary Jenny actually think this wouldn't surface?


Just The News (3/19/25) reports: "Energy Secretary Chris Wright confirmed on Wednesday the existence of a Department of Energy study on liquefied natural gas (LNG) that was completed prior to the Biden administration’s ban on LNG exports. 'I was extremely disappointed to see what was done. In fact, last night I was reading the original report on LNG prepared by the Department of Energy in 2023 that clearly showed it was in America’s interest to grow our LNG exports, and it wouldn’t impact domestic prices and, in fact, it would lower greenhouse emissions,' Wright said in an interview with Fox News’ Stuart Varney on the 'Varney & Co' show Wednesday morning...Critics argued the study released by Granholm was politicized and unreliable.  Tom Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, said in a statement that the study 'epitomizes four years of misguided energy policy.'"

Energy Markets

 
WTI Crude Oil: ↓ $61.70
Natural Gas: ↓ $4.13
Gasoline: ↑ $3.12
Diesel: ↑ $3.60
Heating Oil: ↑ $223.20
Brent Crude Oil: ↑ $70.79
US Rig Count: ↓ 619

 
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