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DAILY ENERGY NEWS | 07/01/2022

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A whirlwind week at SCOTUS and some thoughts on Justice Thomas. The latest episode of The Unregulated Podcast is now streaming on our website, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

"For years, I chased utopian energy. I promoted solar, wind, and energy efficiency because I felt like I was protecting the environment...It’s now clear I was chasing utopian energy. I was using green energy myths as moral camouflage, and I was able to believe those myths as long as I remained ignorant about the real costs and benefits of different energy sources. "

– Brian Gitt,
Real Clear Energy

Only the beginning.

Texas Tribune (6/30/22) reports: "The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have broad authority to require states to decarbonize their electricity sectors, a decision that is expected to dramatically slow the United States’ ability to reduce greenhouse gases and mitigate the effects of climate change. The court’s 6-3 ruling on a case sparked by Texas and 16 other states — which addressed an Obama-era regulation aimed at coal-fired power plants, one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the nation — was a blow to President Joe Biden’s plan to reduce U.S. emissions and meet the country’s goals under international agreements. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was among 17 Republican state attorneys general who sued the EPA over an Obama-era regulation known as the Clean Power Plan, which never went into effect. It was repealed and replaced by what was called the Affordable Clean Energy rule under the Trump administration. Paxton said the decision was a 'victory for energy independence.' 'This is a great day for American energy production,' he said in a statement...The ruling could also open the door for more aggressive challenges to federal regulations at any agency, administrative and environmental lawyers said. 'I do think you’re going to see other federal agencies sit back [as a result of the case],' said Anne Austin, an environmental lawyer who was an assistant administrator for the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation during the Trump administration. The ruling may cause federal agencies beyond the EPA to narrow regulations to avoid what could now be 'shaky legal ground.'"

Biden's "working like the devil" alright, to stop American energy.

Wall Street Journal (6/29/22) editorial: "President Biden and his aides keep saying they’re doing everything they can to produce more oil and gas in the U.S. Apparently they think Americans aren’t paying attention, because his Administration keeps making rule after rule to throttle production. The latest comes from the Environmental Protection Agency, which has announced it may soon deem parts of the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico in 'non-attainment' with its ozone standards. Green groups last spring petitioned the EPA to do this to effectively force curbs on shale fracking. The Permian is currently the most productive, and cost-effective, oil shale reserve in the U.S. It accounts for 43% of U.S. oil production. 'The EPA’s process could interfere in the production of oil in Texas which could lead to skyrocketing prices at the pump by reducing production, increase the cost of that production, or do both,' Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wrote Mr. Biden this week. 'Your administration’s announced action is completely discretionary. Thus, you have the power to stop it.'...Since EPA doesn’t have the legal authority to ban fracking, it’s now trying to do so through this regulatory back door. We warned about this last year. Climate activists also want EPA to tighten ozone standards to indirectly regulate CO2 from fossil fuels. Joe Goffman, a champion of this idea, is leading EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation on an acting basis, and he’s in charge of ozone rules."

Is energy sprawl, as in wind and solar with long transmission lines, good for the environment?

Dezeen (6/27/22) reports: "Former US president Barack Obama has called on architects and policymakers to tackle urban sprawl and to 'create livable density' in American cities. Speaking at the 2022 annual conference organized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in Chicago last week, the former US president linked car-dependent development to the climate crisis. 'Sprawl in America is not good for our climate,' he said. 'And so we have to think about creating livable density that allows us to take mass transit and take bicycles.' Obama, who has close ties to Chicago, where his presidential library is set to be built, said architects need to consider how cities can be created to be both sustainable and affordable. 'How do we think about the climate and environment in which people actually live?' he asked...He added that to solve the issues, local and federal laws needed to be geared toward financing affordable, energy-sustainable mixed-use and mixed-income communities. 'There's bipartisan resistance to that,' he said. 'Some of the most liberal communities in the country aren't that liberal when it comes to situating affordable housing.'"

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George Landrith, Frontiers of Freedom

Thomas A. Schatz, Citizens Against Government Waste

Richard Manning, Americans for Limited Government

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Craig Richardson, E&E Legal

Benjamin Zycher, American Enterprise Institute
Jason Hayes, Mackinac Center
David Williams, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Paul Gessing, Rio Grande Foundation
Seton Motley, Less Government
Annette Thompson Meeks, Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
Isaac Orr, Center of the American Experiment
David T. Stevenson & Clint Laird, Caesar Rodney Institute
John Droz, Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions
Jim Karahalios, Axe the Carbon Tax
Mark Mathis, Clear Energy Alliance
Jack Ekstrom, PolicyWorks America

Energy Markets

WTI Crude Oil: ↑ $108.65
Natural Gas: ↑ $5.86
Gasoline: ↓ $4.84

Diesel: ↓ $5.76
Heating Oil: ↑ $398.86
Brent Crude Oil: ↑ $112.07
US Rig Count: ↑ 816

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