The record is clear that the world has been warming since about the year 1700, 150 years before we were using fossilfuels. 1700 was the peak of the Little Ice Age, which was very cold and caused crop failures and starvation.
The carbon tax, a government levy applied to fossilfuels, is designed to reduce emissions and is set to rise annually until 2030, when it will reach 100 euros (about $117) per metric ton.
New York City approved its own ban on fossilfuels in new buildings last year, seeking to eliminate natural gas hookups along a faster timeline than the newly passed budget deal.
Both administrations sought to slash new fossilfuel production and use, without regard to the costs, dangers to the economy, or deleterious effects on the middle class and poor.
The Democrat-led state legislature is currently considering attaching the new fossilfuel building regulations to a $227 billion budget bill that focuses more broadly on how the state will phase out the use of fossilfuels in the coming years.
The West, he said, by contrast, adopted energy policies that impoverished its citizens in order “to appease a climate cult,” while competitors continued to exploit fossilfuels, gaining leverage over Western economies.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed in July, features a renewed focus on fossilfuels, including expansion of oil and gas production on federal lands and waters, while sunsetting tax credits for wind and solar projects.
These lawsuits typically include claims of public nuisance, failure to warn, and misleading advertising regarding the environmental impact of fossilfuels.
Labor To Cut Funding for Overseas FossilFuel Expansion
The Labor government has also joined the clean energy transition partnership, signing on with 39 other countries to end the international financing of fossilfuel projects, making the announcement
His administration further restricted exploration for fossilfuels or drilling where it had any authority to do so. Strong anti-fossilfuel rhetoric further discouraged private investment in such resources.
As the Energy Information Administration pointed out, fossilfuels generate about 60 percent of the electricity in the United States, which means that most people charging their EVs are using electricity generated from fossilfuels.
“The fossilfuel industry is getting increasingly desperate at maintaining its toxic grip on society. Their only priority is to maximise their profits and produce as much oil and gas as possible.”
More renewable megawatts, about 3 to 1, are needed to replace retiring fossilfuels to maintain reliability, The Epoch Times previously reported.
Most electricity came to PJM in 2023 from fossilfuels.
Nuclear power is being championed as a way to reduce dependence on imported fossilfuels and to strengthen national energy security.
In July, the UK approved construction of the Sizewell C plant in eastern England, part of a wider nuclear revival.
In terms of policies, Trump is very "America first," advocating for bringing back domestic manufacturing, strengthening border control, and stricter immigration policies, while supporting fossilfuels.
Only some extraordinarily dangerous risk from the continued use of fossilfuels could possibly justify abandoning them. So, should we just trust the ruling class’ war on fossilfuels and accept the suffering that will inevitably come?
Shadow business and trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds told Sky News, “We don’t support Rosebank, we think the priority for the country should be transitioning away from fossilfuel partly because of the volatility of the price of fossilfuels."
Opponents of offshore wind energy say that the towering turbines infringe upon coastal vacation spots and harm the ocean’s ecosystem, while wind energy advocates argue that transitioning away from fossilfuel is critical to the climate.
Despite the government’s agenda, Britain will need fossilfuels for decades to prevent blackouts, according to the CEO of National Gas, Jon Butterworth.
If the United States eliminated all fossilfuels, it would make little difference in global temperatures, but policies to do so are hurting Americans, according to one of our guests.
Tuesday is National Night Out.
“This arbitrary and unnecessary directive threatens the loss of thousands of good-paying jobs and billions in investments, and it is delaying our transition away from the fossilfuels that harm our health and our planet.”
The case goes back to 2021, when the Biden administration approved dozens of wind energy generation projects on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) off the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts “in a rush to replace fossilfuels as this nation’s primary source
