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move expected to threaten Rice’s whale and other species with extinction.

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The U.S. doesn’t have enough bio-based diesel to meet the administration’s new mandate, so blenders will have to import yet more foreign crop-based oils.

Biofuels generally have this problem when you try to scale them up; they only end up being sustainable and carbon-neutral at fairly limited scale.

The panel voted to override Endangered Species Act restrictions on oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico, home to critically endangered whales and other imperiled wildlife.

This will have essentially no impact on fuel prices; those are set on global markets, and the US has been a net oil exporter since the early Biden administration.

Critics say president is locking into 20th century energy systems even as his ‘bet’ on oil and gas ‘isn’t going so well’

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This news article is about a preprint, which means that the study wasn't peer-reviewed. It has a number of serious problems

The law would make fuel companies help pay for damages caused by climate change. The administration argues it’s unconstitutional.

A report estimated the cost to stop using oil and natural gas for the USA in 2019 to be $4.5 Trillion and that this is similar to what we USA paid for the "War on Terror".

The 2003 Iraq War cost 1.4 Trillion directly and maybe 2.4 Trillion in finance charges.

Note: I am not saying these wars were necessarily due to oil, but they may have gone differently.

I wonder how much USA oil wars have cost compared to moving to solar, wind, and battery?

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The sweeping new law enshrines farmers' use of gas-powered equipment and weakens protections for conservation lands, locking the state's climate-battered ag sector into fossil fuel dependence.

I'll note that the typical municipal restriction on gas-powered gardening equipment (leaf blowers, weed whackers, mowers) is because those devices tend to use gas engines which don't have any of the pollution or sound controls that cars have, so they create a huge amount of noise, and lots of particulates which kill people.