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** Another big win and we're only in the second week of January.
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New York Times ([link removed]) (1/9/20) reports: "The White House on Thursday introduced major changes to the nation’s benchmark environmental protection law, moving to ease approval of major energy and infrastructure projects without detailed environmental review or consideration of climate change. Many of the changes to the law — the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act, a landmark measure that touches nearly every significant construction project in the country — had been long sought by the oil and gas industry as well as trade unions, which have argued that the review process is lengthy, cumbersome and used by environmental activists to drag out legal disputes and kill infrastructure projects. Under the law, major federal projects like bridges, highways, pipelines or power plants that will have a significant impact on the environment require a review, or environmental impact statement,
outlining potential consequences. The proposed new rules would narrow the range of projects that require such a review and impose strict new deadlines on completing assessments. President Trump, speaking in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, surrounded by city and county officials and labor union leaders in hard hats, criticized the law as a 'regulatory nightmare.'"


** "America is a nation of builders, yet today it can take more than 10 years to get a permit to build a simple road. It’s big government at its absolute worst."
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– ([link removed]) D ([link removed]) onald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America ([link removed])

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Greens against a "green" energy.

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** all Steet Journal ([link removed])
(1/3/20) editorial: "Going by stories in the press nowadays, many people might think the Trump Administration wants a coal plant on every corner. But look who’s clearing the ground for the country’s largest solar farm—and who’s opposing it. The Bureau of Land Management this week released an environmental impact statement indicating its intent to approve the 7,100-acre Gemini solar farm east of Las Vegas...Gemini is the type of renewable energy project that environmental groups claim will be needed to move from fossil fuels that, unlike solar and wind, can provide power on demand. Nevada also needs large-scale solar to meet its 50% renewable energy goal by 2030. It currently generates 20%. Yet greens grouse that solar arrays would disturb habitat for Mojave Desert species such as the desert tortoise, kit fox and the Threecorner milkvetch, a rare plant...It’s nice to see environmental groups finally realizing that renewable energy isn’t a free lunch...Progressives denounce anyone who points
out there are costs to a fossil-fuel free future. Perhaps we’re all climate-change deniers now."

How much clearer does it need to be? They've arrested the people who started the fires!

** New York Post ([link removed])
(1/8/20) column: "Celebrities and posturing greenies the world over have seized the opportunity of Australia’s bushfire catastrophe to push the dangerous myth that climate change is to blame...I lived in Australia through the past two decades of escalating fire crises and it’s not climate change that has caused today’s disaster, but the criminal negligence of governments that have tried to buy green votes by locking up vast tracts of land as national parks, yet failed to spend the money needed to control ground fuel and maintain fire trails. Instead, they bowed to an ideology that obstructs necessary hazard reduction and prevents landowners from clearing vegetation around their own properties, all in thrall to the god of 'biodiversity.' How’s that biodiversity now on incinerated land sterilized of all life forms?...Climate change has become an excuse for green mismanagement."

Great work by the team at the Center of the American Experiment.

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** &E News ([link removed])
(1/8/20) reports: "Amid efforts by the Trump administration to roll back climate change regulations, several blue and purple states have sought to strengthen their own rules. But they've faced significant obstacles. Nowhere is this trend more evident than in the case of Obama-era clean car standards. In April 2018, the Trump administration signaled its intent to weaken the auto pollution standards, dealing a gut punch to state efforts to fight climate change and air pollution...From Minnesota to New Mexico, some common themes have emerged. Auto dealers have sounded the alarm that the new rules would raise prices for consumers. The oil and gas industry has joined with conservative groups to decry the rules as costly and burdensome. And auto trade associations have hired small armies of lobbyists to air their concerns in closed-door meetings with state officials...In Minnesota, a conservative think tank called the Center of the American Experiment created a template for people to submit
public comments opposing the new rules...Of the more than 600 public comments that poured in, roughly 13% used identical language provided by the Center of the American Experiment, according to an analysis by DeSmog. 'They created a script that was posted on their website. Basically, anyone could just simply copy and paste this prewritten script and submit it as a comment,' said Dana Drugmand, a DeSmog reporter."

Not even the totalitarian communists in China are willing to force more ethanol on their citizens.

** Reuters ([link removed])
(1/8/20) reports: "China has suspended its plan to implement a nationwide gasoline blend containing 10% ethanol this year, three sources briefed on the matter said, following a sharp decline in the country’s corn stocks and limited production capacity of the biofuel. The reversal is a heavy blow to domestic producers that have built new plants, as well as biofuel exporters, including the United States and Brazil, which were looking to benefit from growing Chinese demand. China was expected to increase imports of U.S. ethanol after the recent announcement of Phase 1 of a trade agreement. Beijing announced in September 2017 that the national gasoline supply would contain 10% ethanol from 2020, part of a broad reform of its corn industry that at the time was suffering from a massive surplus. But at a meeting in late December with ethanol producers and oil majors, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said it will now halt the rollout of ethanol-gasoline supplies beyond the
current handful of provinces that have already implemented full or partial blends, according to two of the three sources briefed on the meeting...'The decision was made after further study, which suggests any promotion of ethanol gasoline must be based on the precondition that food security is guaranteed,' said one of the sources familiar with Beijing’s plan, in reference to declining grain reserves in China."

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Tom Pyle, American Energy Alliance
Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Phil Kerpen, American Commitment
Andrew Quinlan, Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Tim Phillips, Americans for Prosperity
Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform
George Landrith, Frontiers of Freedom
Thomas A. Schatz, Citizens Against Government Waste
Richard Manning, Americans for Limited Government
Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks
Craig Richardson, E&E Legal
Benjamin Zycher, American Enterprise Institute
Amy Oliver Cooke, Independence Institute
Jason Hayes, Mackinac Center
David Williams, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Paul Gessing, Rio Grande Foundation
Seton Motley, Less Government
Nathan Nascimento, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce
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
Mandy Gunasekara, Energy 45
Jack Ekstrom, PolicyWorks America

Energy Markets


WTI Crude Oil: ↑ $59.75
Natural Gas: ↑ $2.18
Gasoline: ↓ $2.59

Diesel: ↓ $3.01
Heating Oil: ↑ $195.76
Brent Crude Oil: ↑ $65.64
** US Rig Count ([link removed])
: ↑ 827



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