Your daily reminder that if these guys really believe that climate change is an existential threat to humanity, they would have fixed this by now...
Real Clear Energy (5/24/21) column: "Campaign promises have a habit of getting lost in the crowds on inauguration day, never to be seen again. Joe Biden’s commitment to making American electricity 100% carbon pollution-free by 2035, however, has survived to become an official White House target. Despite this resilience, the Biden clean energy effort will inevitably hit a bureaucratic snag due to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). To achieve his environmental goals while providing consumers with stable electricity, Biden needs to take the climate fight to NEPA and its byzantine review process...Despite the legislation’s basic, common-sense agenda, NEPA has become a convenient tool for opponents of infrastructural expansion to stall development through lengthy and expensive court cases. Given the risk of drawn-out litigation, EAs and EISs have become mammoth tasks that can take years upon years to complete. For example, EISs that were published in 2018 were already 4.9 years in the making...Unless Joe Biden got a head-start on the EIS process while he was vice president, he’ll need to tackle NEPA now to oversee a renewable energy boom as president."
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"The academics and bureaucrats who create models that claim we can run the global economy solely on renewable energy live in a different world than you and me. In their world, there is no shortage of money, land, or commodities like copper, cobalt, and lithium."
– Robert Bryce,
Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity
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