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DAILY ENERGY NEWS  | 04/11/2025
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Funny that the "save our democracy" crowd always relies on unelected bureaucrats to push their ideas.


The Daily Caller (4/10/25) op-ed: "In December 2024, during his administration’s final days in office, former President Biden approved the “California waiver,” a unique Clean Air Act provision that lets California impose tougher vehicle emissions standards than those set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This particular waiver request was for a specific rule, known as Advanced Clean Cars II, which would essentially ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars in the Golden State...It appears, however, that unelected bureaucrats are working to prevent Congress from ending the EV mandate. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), responding to a request from a handful of Democratic Senators, recently issued a memo claiming that the waiver isn’t technically a rule that can be overturned by the CRA, but an adjudicatory order, which is a 'case-specific, individual determination of a particular set of facts.' Another Congressional bureaucrat, the Senate Parliamentarian, is also attempting to put up roadblocks on the path to ending President Biden’s EV mandate. Elizabeth MacDonough, appointed by former Democratic Senator Harry Reid, recently stated that she believed the waiver isn’t reviewable under the CRA. She’s wrong."

"Military climate policies under the Biden Administration, even if fully implemented, would not have had a measurable effect on global temperatures. But they would continue to waste hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money. Secretary Hegseth will put these funds to better use to strengthen the US military." 

 

– Steve Goreham,
The Heartland Institute

Alaskans should be free to benefit from Alaskan resources.


Anchorage Daily News (4/10/25) reports: "Later this spring, barges of heavy equipment will pull away from a launch on Alaska’s road system and begin a journey up the Yukon River. More than 100 miles upstream, a tributary, Birch Creek, branches off. The equipment’s destination is along that creek, on remote property owned by Alaska Native corporations in a huge basin called the Yukon Flats. There, an oil company will set up a specially designed rig to drill the basin’s first-ever deep wells, which the landowners hope could lead to the discovery of the state’s next big oil field. If found, petroleum could create well-paying jobs for Yukon watershed residents and generate big dividend payments for the 20,500 shareholders of Doyon, the for-profit Native corporation for Alaska’s Interior region...But leaders of Birch Creek, the tiny Indigenous community closest to the drilling sites, have endorsed the effort, saying it could produce desperately needed jobs...The support from Birch Creek has given Doyon and Hilcorp the 'social license to operate in that area,' Doyon’s chief executive, Aaron Schutt, said in an interview. If oil is found, Doyon’s agreements with Hilcorp would require the company to hire shareholders and local residents, he added."

Americans deserve to know how many birds are being blended by their tax dollars.


Heartland Institute (4/3/25) blog: "Imagine there is an industry product that is killing thousands a year and the number is growing. The government is tracking it closely, while keeping the data secret in order to protect the product. Outrageous, right? But that is exactly the case with wind power killing eagles. Every wind-killed eagle found at an industrial wind site is quickly reported to the federal Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Every year each site also submits an annual kill report to FWS. None of this data is publicly available. The FWS eagle kill data is all a big government secret designed to protect the wind industry from public outrage. This has to stop. The public has a right to know about all these eagle kills. In addition, this data would support research on ways to reduce the killing. For example, it has been suggested that painting the blades black would help the eagles avoid the blades. In fact, there are a lot of technologies that could be studied given comprehensive kill data."

Blunting NEPA weaponization is a major win and gives Congress time to permanently fix this festering problem.


Politico (4/10/25) reports: "The Interior Department said Thursday it will no longer require environmental reviews for thousands of oil leases in western states. The move rescinds a Biden-era bid to require environmental impact statements on more than 3,200 oil leases covering 3.5 million acres in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. The leases had been challenged as part of a series of lawsuits from environmental groups alleging they had violated federal environmental regulations, with the Biden administration agreeing to settlements over several months in 2022 to conduct new environmental reviews. Interior’s Bureau of Land Management 'is evaluating options for compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act for these oil and gas leasing decisions,' the department said in a statement. 'The Department and the Bureau of Land Management remain committed to responsibly developing energy on public lands.'"

Energy Markets

 
WTI Crude Oil: ↑ $60.25
Natural Gas: ↓ $3.48
Gasoline: ↓ $3.21
Diesel: ↓ $3.61
Heating Oil: ↑ $204.97
Brent Crude Oil: ↑ $63.53
US Rig Count: ↑ 619

 
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