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AZ Democrats Warn That Consumers Will Be Hurt and Pollution Will Increase if HB2679 Passes

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HB2679, a Republican sponsored bill that would, according to critics, including those in the legislature and former Arizona Corporation Commission members, reward corporate utility interests and profits over consumer protection and provide a financial lifeline for unclean coal industries in the Grand Canyon State is on its way to the State Senate for consideration. The … Read more

The Biden/Harris Administration Pledges to Cut Carbon Emissions By Half and Increase Jobs in Sustainable-Clean Energy Sector

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Hosting a two-day virtual global summit with 40 nations in attendance, the Biden/Harris Administration brought the United States back, after a four-year absence, as a leader in combatting climate change and promoting the creation of new clean energy jobs. During the two day summit, Vice President Harris and President Biden, accompanied by their economic, energy, … Read more

Climate change denier Donald Trump expected to pull U.S. out of Paris climate accord

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carbon-emissionsLast week director of the White House National Economic Council, Gary Cohn, said aboard Air Force One: “Coal doesn’t even make that much sense anymore as a feedstock,” he instead praised natural gas as “such a cleaner fuel” — and one that America has become an “abundant producer of.” Top Trump aide: Coal doesn’t make ‘much sense anymore’.

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres had a warning yesterday for nations that choose not to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels: ‘Get on board the climate train or get left behind’.

Our Dear Leader and climate change denier Donald Trump, who abdicated the U.S. role of “leader of the free world” last week in his first foreign trip, apparently has decided that the U.S. should be left behind.

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The New York Times reports, Trump Poised to Pull U.S. From Paris Climate Accord:

President Trump is expected to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, three officials with knowledge of the decision said, making good on a campaign pledge but severely weakening the landmark 2015 climate change accord that committed nearly every nation to take action to curb the warming of the planet.

A senior White House official cautioned that the specific language of the president’s expected announcement was still in flux Wednesday morning. The official said the withdrawal might be accompanied by legal caveats that will shape the impact of Mr. Trump’s decision.

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Carbon Monopoly tries to preemptively stop the EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan rule

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The Carbon Monopoly and its Tea-Publican lickspitter servants were in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Thursday trying to preemptively stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s proposed Clean Power Plan rule before a final rule has even been published.

The judges did not appear to be buying it. Think Progress reports, Federal Judge On Stopping EPA Rule: ‘Why Would We Do That?’:

carbon-emissionsA coal mining company, West Virginia, and 15 other states argued Thursday that a federal court should stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s proposed Clean Power Plan rule, but the three presiding judges did not seem convinced.

If the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia finds in favor of the petitioners, it would be a first for the rule-making process. The court has never issued a writ against a rule that has not been finalized.

“Do you know of any case when we have stopped rule-making? Why would we do that?” Judge Thomas Griffith asked Elbert Lin, an attorney for West Virginia, at the outset of the proceedings.

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