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DAILY ENERGY NEWS | 09/18/2025
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** Rs have a majority and the White House. Act like it.
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E&E News ([link removed]) (9/18/25) reports: "A bipartisan House caucus released a sweeping permitting package Thursday, recycling some well-worn ideas to ease the federal process for massive infrastructure projects like pipelines and transmission lines. Led by the caucus’ energy working group heads, Reps. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) and Gabe Evans (R-Colo.), the framework outlines a plan to set deadlines, reduce litigation and accelerate reviews for projects...For years, permitting discussions have inched forward, but bipartisan legislation has failed. While Republicans have long wanted to rework environmental laws for projects of all kinds, including pipelines, Democrats see transmission lines as the key to unleashing more clean energy. Now, some old players — and many new ones — say they want to move legislation by the end of the year...Late last year, a permitting deal pushed by
then-Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and others collapsed. It broadly would have traded power line buildout for considerable changes to the National Environmental Policy Act and litigation limits. Several lawmakers insisted they were within striking distance of a deal, but several House Energy and Commerce Republicans were opposed to the transmission provisions. Now, Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) says he’s open to working on transmission language, though he had not reviewed the new Problem Solvers framework Wednesday."
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** "Over the past half-century, environmentalists have predicted countless calamities. Their extreme predictions were typically wrong, their draconian countermeasures turned out to be mostly misguided, and we should be grateful we didn’t follow their harmful advice. We need to keep this history in mind as we are inundated with stories of climate Armageddon."
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– Bjorn Lomborg, Copenhagen Consensus ([link removed])
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New management for New Jersey.
** Politico ([link removed])
(9/18/25) reports: "Offshore wind supporters are crying foul as President Donald Trump revokes permits, rolls back federal incentives and halts projects under construction along the East Coast. But one New Jersey Republican thinks the president has gotten it right. In an interview Wednesday, Rep. Jeff Van Drew echoed Trump’s arguments that offshore wind farms cost consumers money and threaten the environment (two contentions that wind supporters very much dispute). He said he’s pleased with the Interior Department’s recent actions, which have included stopping work on the nearly completed Revolution Wind project south of New England and proposing to rescind permits for three others...Van Drew, a former Democrat who switched parties during Trump’s first term, rose to prominence as a wind critic while fighting Atlantic Shores, a massive project proposed almost nine miles off the coast of Atlantic City. He argued the project would increase power prices, drive tourists from the Jersey Shore and
harm marine wildlife. His view offers a stark contrast to Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut, who told POLITICO's E&E News last week that the Trump administration’s decision to stop work on Revolution Wind would lead to higher power prices, jeopardize the reliability of the electric grid and chill business investment in the U.S. Van Drew pushed back against that idea on Wednesday, calling offshore wind 'very, very expensive' and arguing that developers took a calculated gamble when they chose to invest in the U.S."
Prayers for a speedy recovery.
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A typical result from the land of net zero - plant burgers, sold to Americans as the great meat replacement, languish at just 1% of the market.
** The Guardian ([link removed])
(9/12/25) reports: "Plant-based burgers were supposed to help wean Americans off their environmentally ruinous appetite for meat. But sales have plummeted amid a surging pro-meat trend embraced by the Trump administration, raising a key question – will vegetarianism ever take hold in the US? This year has been a punishing one for the plant-based meat sector, led by companies such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, with sales of refrigerated products slumping 17%. This follows a difficult 2024, during which sales fell 7%, furthering a multi-year spiral – last year Americans purchased 75m fewer units of plant-based meat than they did in 2022. Despite hopes that burgers, sausages and chicken made from soy, peas and beans would curb Americans’ love of eating butchered animals – thereby reducing the rampant deforestation, water pollution and planet-heating emissions involved in raising livestock – these alternatives languish at just 1% of the total meat market in the US."
Energy Markets
WTI Crude Oil: ↑ $64.12
Natural Gas: ↑ $3.03
Gasoline: ↑ $3.20
Diesel: ↑ $3.70
Heating Oil: ↑ $236.52
Brent Crude Oil: ↑ $68.08
** US Rig Count ([link removed])
: ↓ 585
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