'Eco justice' is just the latest veneer for cronyism.
American Spectator (12/7/20) column: "The incoming Biden administration has made climate change a signature issue, deeming its importance on par with the COVID-19 recovery and racial inequality. According to the Biden transition website, climate change poses an existential threat to our environment, our health, our communities, our national security, and our economic well-being. It comes as no surprise then that the Biden administration will require every federal agency, department, and program to articulate a climate angle and that it has implemented an informal climate and environmental justice litmus test for candidates for positions ranging across government. But for all its rhetoric on these issues, Team Biden has already run afoul of the Democratic Party’s environmentalists. Because instead of rallying around the Green New Dealers and climate strikers, the Biden camp has turned instead toward the party’s climate neoliberals...The Kerrys, Yellens, and Deeses of the world have been coronated by Davos, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley because they don’t really constitute a threat to them. To people in the communities of Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Louisiana, for which independent oil and gas producers are the economic backbone, Kerry, Yellen, and Deese most certainly do constitute a threat. Climate neoliberalism is infected by the hubris of a class of people who are insulated from the effects of their recommendations."
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"The U.S. shale sector might be down but is by no means about to go out. Shale companies know it, and have been busy consolidating their operations so as to be better primed for the oil price recovery."
– Alex Kimani, Oilprice.com
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