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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Energy => Topic started by: Elderberry on February 23, 2022, 12:24:51 pm
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Climate Change Dispatch by Zack Budryk on Feb 21, 2022
The Biden administration will suspend or delay new federal oil-and-gas leasing following a court ruling against the process by which it calculates the social cost of climate change, the administration announced Saturday night.
On Feb. 11, Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana, a Trump appointee, blocked the administration’s method of calculating the social costs associated with greenhouse gases, the primary driver of climate change.
The Biden administration had returned to Obama-era calculation methods, with plans to develop its own in the future.
In his ruling, Cain blocked federal agencies from considering findings from the White House Interagency Working Group, which had been tasked with devising new metrics based on the Obama-era calculations.
More: https://climatechangedispatch.com/biden-suspends-new-oil-and-gas-leases-as-gas-prices-hit-record-highs/ (https://climatechangedispatch.com/biden-suspends-new-oil-and-gas-leases-as-gas-prices-hit-record-highs/)
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:facepalm2:
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We have got to strip the presidency of any power that is not directly required to implement congressional legislation.... this is criminal..
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More good news for Putin