Bill Gates’ Dark Dream of Blocking Sunlight from the Earth is About to be Realized

“And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, And those who fear Your name, small and great, And should destroy those who destroy the Earth.” -Rev. 11:18


Bill Gates, ever the demented snake oil salesman, has long argued in favor of a bizarre plan to fight global warming by using experimental geoengineering to partially block the sun’s rays from reaching Earth.

Well, he’s apparently about to get his wish.

Scientists plan to begin pumping chemicals into the sky over the next few weeks and months from several countries around the globe, including the U.S., Australia and Israel.

The idea, promoted by Gates and leftist billionaire George Soros, involves pumping manmade white clouds containing chalk dust and other chemicals into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight away from the Earth’s surface.

Blocking the sun’s light would allegedly lower the planet’s temperature enough to reverse global warming.

Never mind that fruit trees and vegetables require sunlight in order to grow and produce food for the masses. Not to mention, sunlight is the primary source of critical Vitamin D, an essential nutrient for human immunity. Gates, a known eugenicist who goes around giving talks about how we need to reduce the global population, likely sees these dark possibilities as exciting side effects of the nefarious sun-blocking plan.

Soros is similarly excited about the plan. He says the technology will help to prevent ice from melting in Greenland, which he claims could doom human civilization.

How ironic that the very globalists who are doing everything in their power to destroy human civilization claim to be worried that global warming might speed up the process.

Globalists like Bill Gates and George Soros are doing harm to the environment through their genocidal climate agenda on multiple levels. They advocate blanketing our fertile farmland with toxic solar panels, while filling more acres of farmland with wind turbines that kill birds and other wildlife. They also push electric cars which run on toxic lithium batteries that are going to create an environmental nightmare in the years ahead because, like with the solar panels, there’s no way to safely dispose of them.

Chloe Aiello of Inc. magazine reported on February 13, 2024, that a Bill Gates-Backed Startup Just Raised $145 Million to Source Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric VehiclesMuch of the lithium mined in the world today is done on the backs of child labor in poor countries of Africa and Asia. But don’t tell that to Bill Gates, George Soros, Larry Fink and their buddies at the World Economic Forum.

Despite their destructive plans, these globalists insist they are our saviors and we should look to them for answers on how to live a sustainable lifestyle. Please.

About the devious sun-blocking formula, Soros said: “Our civilization is in danger of collapsing because of the inexorable advance of climate change. The melting of the Greenland ice sheet would increase the level of the oceans by 7 meters. That poses a threat to the survival of our civilization.”

Of course this is all nonsense meant to stoke fear. A fearful population will beg for solutions to the imaginary problem, inviting their own enslavement. More than 20 years ago, Al Gore made the exact same dire predictions about ice melting, polar bears dying, hurricanes increasing, and whole cities being submerged in water. None of these apocalyptic predictions have materialized.

According to a report by Slay News, the tactics advocated by Bill Gates involve spraying aerosol concentrations into the stratosphere to reflect solar radiation away from the Earth.

Gates has been funding a major project at Harvard using balloons to deploy aerosols. The Harvard project was shut down following public backlash.

But now, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that another group of scientists has been advancing Gates’ idiotic and, frankly, dangerous plan.

Marine Cloud Brightening is a research project led by Southern Cross University as part of the $64.55 million, or 100 million Australian dollars, Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program.

The program involves modifying clouds to make them reflect sunlight away from the Earth to supposedly stop global warming.

Slay News reports:

“This week, researchers aboard a ship off the northeastern coast of Australia near the Whitsunday Islands started spraying a briny mixture through high-pressure nozzles into the air in an attempt to brighten low-altitude clouds that form over the ocean.

“Scientists hope bigger, brighter clouds will reflect sunlight away from the Earth, shade the ocean surface, and cool the waters around the Great Barrier Reef.”

In Israel, another startup called Stardust Solutions has begun testing a system to disperse a cloud of tiny reflective particles about 60,000 feet in altitude.

These geoengineered clouds reflect sunlight away from Earth to cool the atmosphere in a concept known as solar radiation management.

And, in Massachusetts, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are preparing to pour 6,000 gallons of a liquid solution of sodium hydroxide, a component of lye, into the ocean 10 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard this summer.

Some would argue that “cloud seeding” has been going on for years. Take a look at this shot I took of the sky above my house a few weeks ago.

Does the sky in the photo above look normal?

With all these chemicals being sprayed above us, what could possibly go wrong?

Let’s pray this ill-advised experiment fizzles out before it can do too much damage.

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CONSERVATION NATION VIDEO: The Biden Threat to Alaskan Mining

We just released a new episode of our “wildly” popular original video series, Conservation Nation.

Please watch our Conservation Nation videos.

In this latest program, host Gabriella Hoffman (who also serves as a CFACT senior policy analyst) journeys to Alaska to look into how mining operations are carried out in this beautiful, yet remote state.

As CFACT supporters know, Alaska is chock full of critical minerals needed to run our modern society. Gold, silver, copper, zinc, graphite, cobalt, lead, and rare earth elements are all found in abundance up there. That’s why domestic mining in the region is necessary for supplying America’s technological and electricity generation needs.

Sadly, our ability to get these minerals is being hampered by the Biden Administration and radical Greens. In fact, as the latest episode points out, the Biden administration is actively blocking new Alaska mining projects in the name of fighting climate change. One of these being targeted is known as Ambler Road –an infrastructure project supported by Alaskans to reach the Ambler Mining District.

If the Green radicals succeed in taking this project down it would be bad news for all of us.

Alaskan mining is a big positive.  Viewers will learn that the Alaskan mining industry supports 10,800 total direct and indirect jobs, paying an average annual wage of $118,000—more than any other sector of the state’s economy.

And, of course, there’s also a little fun added in.  You’ll get to see Gabby attempt to pan for a little gold and land a wild Alaska salmon.

Make sure you don’t miss this program.

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Kill Them All — O’Biden/Globalist Net Zero Agenda

Let’s start out with a little humor. Remember this: Humor

What a week this was I hardly know where to start. One thing we should have learned is that when we call our legislators and conduct oversight it works. Because of our efforts the non-border border bill was killed. But fear not the RINOS and the Communists/Globalists in the Senate will twist enough arms, threaten enough people so that they will offer another bill with aid for Ukraine again. Think about how important Ukraine is to these criminals. Are they getting paid off? Do they need to give their lobbyist contractor friends money? Need to continue their human sex trafficking? Need to continue their drug pipeline? One thing is true they will never stop. We have to make sure that we never stop either. We have to continue our calls or emails to our legislators.

We can see clearly now that thugs/grifters are running this government and they will do anything to maintain control. But the people are smarter. We now see when we act we take back our power. The shift of power makes them crazy. We must make sure this election is overwhelmingly crushing against the globalist. We’re off to a good start. Nikki Haley lost to none of the above in Nevada. Trump won with an overwhelming majority and the US Virgin Islands . We have to see that in every state.

If you have not seen the report from Special Council Richard Hur on dementia Joe he proves what we already knew. Hur said even tough Joe committed multiple felonies, his is a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” No, sorry if he is well enough to be President and destroy the county, he is well enough to be prosecuted.   In the meanwhile  Trump gets all the wrath because he is mean MAGA man who committed no crimes. seniors if you commit a crime or get in trouble remember you new defense “I am well-meaning, elderly man/woman with a poor memory.”

The government favors the globalists. Joe has dementia and is pathetic. So what do we do about it? We need to call the House and Senate oversight committees and tell them that  Obiden is a compromised leader and if he is not well enough to be prosecuted for a felonies which he committed by taking classified material as a vice president when he had no right to classify material, then how can he be in charge of negotiation for anything good for Americans. Part of dementia is illusion and that’s what he is living under while forcing it upon us. Sadly the alternative will be Affirmative Action Graduate Kamala who maybe worse. But I think not because Joe was never really running the country anyway.  The question is: Will the lying DNC take Joe out themselves or make him go through article 25? Or impeachment? Or leave him in office without ability to make any America killing policies.  But regardless it is a disgrace to see what the leadership thinks of America. Remember Trump can not do this alone. We must vet candidates to get him support in both houses.

Another lie this week was the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  BLS reported that we had the biggest job growth beating all expectations. Zero Hedge said it was the most ridiculous jobs report in recent history. Why would they say that? Was BLS lying? They weren’t really lying, they just manipulated the numbers. Does that count?  Basically they changed the amount of hours they reported so it looked like more people had jobs and got higher wages.

This is the way the new economy works. The Feds print money out of thin air. The Feds give the money to the government, who gives the money to the UN, who gives the money to the NGO’s, who gives the money to illegals to invade our country, who then buy things to support the donors of the Globalists, who gives the money back to the Globalists.  Then the lying media and globalist government reports that the economy is doing great as another trillion is added to the debt that the American people must pay.  And the rich 1% get richer.  That is modern day fascism aka slavery.  If you want to see the theft in action see: The Great Taking

Globalists tell us it is our fault for eating too much meat, using to much fossil fuel, turning on the air conditioning. They dream up programs to force us to live in 15 minute cities so they can monitor our every move. And once again they get richer. Read what is going on in South Florida since DeSantis sold the state to his developer friends. Then you will know what to look for in your state. This is the Great Reset or the destruction of the American Dream.

Let’s tackle the greatest lie which we have been told over and over again.  No it’s not China.  No it’s not illegals.  No it’s not Iran, or the Middle East. No it’s not Russia.  Can you guess?  It’s climate change. The farmers are rising up in Europe and the truckers are rising up in America as people all over the world reject world wide slavery and hunger. We must peacefully protest.  They want civil war so they can declare a national emergency and stop the election. Too many western countries are having elections in 2024. Too many nationalists are running for office. This is the big threat. It’s numbers that count,. We must vote. Remember every time they tell you net zero, to get rid of CO2, to get rid of nitrogen, to stop farming or that agriculture is bad they want us dead.  Globalists are putting in place a plan that will kill humanity. CO2 is one of the most necessary gases to sustain life. The biggest emitter of CO2 is water vapor. The Earth is 75% water.  Humans have no control over the weather.

Great video to share with your friends.

Remember: 

Everything is connected. Nothing is random, Everything has a plan. All plans are lies. All Globalists want is MONEY, POWER, CONTROL Don’t give them yours. Challenge them with the truth. Doing Nothing is affirmation.

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An Insurance Scam that Affects Us All

We are being fleeced by film-flam artists.

The absurdity of a requested 100% rate increase for some North Carolina property owners got my attention. (Note that insurance PR people knew that 100% might sound unreasonable, so they adjusted it to be 99.4%!). Let’s back up a bit to see what’s going on here…

Every one of us pays for insurance, one way or another. Some of the most common types of insurance related to property are: homeowners, flood, wind, earthquake, umbrella, tenant, etc. Since what we pay is supposedly related to such matters as actuarial calculations, most of us believe that there is little we can do to complain about our premiums — as what would be the business basis of our argument?

I’ll try to answer that key question…

Note: this issue can get very complicated quite quickly, so this is a layperson’s overview. (FYI: when discussing rates, obfuscation is often a tactic purposefully employed by the insurance industry.) For simplicity, I’ll primarily talk about flood insurance. For those readers who have joined recently, you may have missed an earlier commentary I published on the flood insurance fiasco. Please reread that. I’m writing this update to focus on one unappreciated major development.

A profoundly significant change has happened in the property insurance business over the last decade or so — and almost no one is discussing it! The most fundamental property insurance question is: how is future risk calculated?

Traditionally (i.e., for as long as property insurance has been offered), future risk has always been primarily calculated based on PRIOR HISTORY.

For example, if your property is located near the ocean, river, etc., the insurance company’s estimate of the likelihood of your property flooding in the next year, was based on the average prior history. In other words, if your property was flooded once in the last hundred years, the future estimate for flooding risk would be 1/100 (1%) per year going forward.

All things being equal, that not only makes logical sense, it was also the basis for almost all insurance companies being profitable. That, in turn, resulted in FEMA et al being careless regarding underwriting policy conditions, actuarial flood rates, etc.

So along came a perfect storm: climate alarmism (and their government enablers) plus Katrina. Insurance companies saw this motley pairing as an exceptional opportunity to increase their profits: they scrapped historical data as being the basis for our rates.

NOW, future risk is calculated based on a computer program. Worse, this program incorporates some undeclaredundocumented, and unproven assumptions!

This is a revolutionary change, that is ripe for self-serving manipulations by the insurance industry. For example, using the traditional methodology, a homeowner could always choose to research prior history. They would then know for certain whether it was accurately reflected in calculations of future projections.

With the current methodology of everything done by a computer (and operated by men behind the screen), no homeowner (or anyone else — including watchdogs) has even a remote chance of double-checking hardly anything.

Insurance regulators wouldn’t normally allow such a change simply to make insurance companies more profitable. So the insurance industry shed crocodile tears while using Katrina and Climate Change as a double-barreled shotgun, to blast away any semblance of actuarial sensibility or accountability.

Rather than fix the multiple serious deficiencies with the FEMA flood insurance program, it’s much easier just to charge everyone more. (Again, I’m just using flood insurance as an example.) Consider that NC homeowners are being targeted with an average of 42% rate increase, for homeowners insurance (NOT flood insurance).

It’s all traceable to the same issue: calculating rates based on historical results is old school. Now, an unaccountable computer program is used to project future risk.

Critical-thinking citizens should be strenuously objecting to their state and federal representatives about this greedy and unaccountable sleight-of-hand.

Some articles of interest:

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AWED MEDIA BALANCED NEWS: We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

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— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

If You Only Have Time to Read Some Select Articles:

*** Kansas Senate Bill 401: Requiring that Critical Thinking be Taught (!)

*** Moms for Liberty Takes on Joy Reid on MSNBC!

*** The Canadian Truckers Vindicated

*** Harvard chief DEI officer accused of 40 counts of plagiarism

*** How ‘the worst golfers in America’ saved a College golf team

*** Mann v Steyn (and us) {Note: I’ve made major updates to the links at the end!}

*** MEP Christine Anderson Torches “Climate Emergency” Policies In Fiery Two-Minute Address

*** Experts: Trillions Spent on ‘Climate Change’ Based on Faulty Temperature Data

*** The Wind Drought Years Which The Climate Change Committee AND The Royal Society Ignored

*** The Climate Models Are Wrong

*** A New Global Urban Heat Island Dataset: Global Grids of the Urban Heat Island Effect on Air Temperature, 1800-2023

*** Renewables: an expensive nightmare to nowhere

*** Orsted announces withdrawal of plans to build wind turbines off MD coast

*** The Death of a Wind Project (Minnesota)

*** Part 1: How to Win the US Presidency

*** Part 2: The Rhyme and Reason of Negative Ballots?

*** Part 3: 2020 Presidential Election Related Lawsuits

*** Part 4: Should Voting Machines be Scrapped?

*** Part 5: Have We Had Honest or Dishonest Elections?

*** The Corporate Media and Big Tech Interfered in the 2020 Election

*** Reporter Matt Taibbi Uncovers Plot To Stop Trump, Democracy Be Damned

*** Is the Electoral Fix Already In?

*** Elections Undecided by Midnight are Void & Preempted by Federal Law

*** A new global order with a digital control system run by “trustworthy” AI

*** Voters face ‘significant threat’ from wave of AI-generated fraud as experts race to stop election interference

*** The Art of Psychological Warfare

*** New Journalism and New World Order

*** The Fringe Mainstream

*** The Canadian Truckers Vindicated

*** How to spot a liar: 10 essential tells

*** How To Tell If You’re On A Government Extremism List

*** I’m sick and tired of media hatred and censorship of Christians

*** Elon Musk: DEI Is Discrimination and Fundamentally Anti-Semitic

*** Archive: How Alan Sokal Won the Battle but Lost the ‘Science Wars’

*** Alan Sokal’s Joke Is on Us as Postmodernism Comes to Science

Secondary Education Related:

*** Report: The Key to Fixing the US Education System

*** Kansas Senate Bill 401: Requiring that Critical Thinking be Taught (!)

*** The Problem with NGSS

*** Public Education’s Alarming New 4th ‘R’: Reversal of Learning

*** NC releases guidance on the use of artificial intelligence in K-12 schools

*** Moms for Liberty Takes on Joy Reid on MSNBC!

*** Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking (free online book!)

Some good info for National School Choice week (last week)

Subliterate Readers And Media Literacy

Students at CA school struggling after $250K in federal funds spent on Woke program

Higher Education Related:

*** How ‘the worst golfers in America’ saved a College golf team

*** Harvard chief DEI officer accused of 40 counts of plagiarism

Artificial Intelligence:

*** Voters face ‘significant threat’ from wave of AI-generated fraud as experts race to stop election interference

*** A new global order with a digital control system run by “trustworthy” AI

Underwhelming returns on AI investments led many businesses to believe the tech is overhyped

Logically.AI of Britain and the Expanding Global Reach of Censorship

Klaus Schwab on AI: “We Don’t Even Need Democratic Elections”

Greed Energy Economics:

*** Report 1: The High Cost of 100% Renewable Electricity by 2040

*** Report 2: The High Cost of 100 Percent Electric Home Heating

*** Report 3: The High Cost of 100 Percent Electric Vehicles

*** New study warns of soaring energy bills

How Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROCs) Rip Us Off

Unreliables (General):

*** Renewables: an expensive nightmare to nowhere

*** JUICE (Episode 1) – Texas Blackout

*** Michael Bloomberg’s $1 Billion Assault on the Electric Grid

*** Green Crime: An Electric Car, Wind and Solar Crime Wave

Wind Energy — Offshore:

*** Orsted announces withdrawal of plans to build wind turbines off MD coast

*** Comments requested on draft law to promote offshore wind

Energy developer delivers major blow to Maryland’s climate agenda by canceling offshore wind contracts

Groups Investigating Death Of Critically Endangered Whale Take Wind Industry Money

Dominion wind project gets final 2 permits

Wind Energy — Other:

*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)

*** The Death of a Wind Project (Minnesota)

Solar Energy:

Killing fields fear solar will destroy locals’ livelihoods

Europe’s solar panel manufacturers ask EU for emergency support

Nuclear Energy:

Lessons to be learned from Fukushima

The U.S. Is Losing the Nuclear Energy Race to Russia and China

Report: Politicians should pin little hope on nuclear fusion

Fossil Fuel Energy:

An LNG Export Ban Is Bad Politics for Biden

Biden’s Natural Gas Shutdown Won’t Help The Environment, But It Will Make You Poor, Cold, And Miserable

Crude Oil Isn’t Going Away Soon

What a second Trump term could mean for US oil and gas

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

*** Electric Vehicles Enter the ‘Total Failure’ Phase of Their Existence

*** Electric Vehicles Have A Weight Problem

The West’s humiliating electric car climbdown has begun

Misc Energy:

*** Juice: Power, Politics & The Grid Is Out!

FERC rejects MISO interconnection queue cap, saying it could be undermined by exemptions

Mann v Steyn Trial:

*** Mann v Steyn (and us) {Note: I’ve made major updates to the links at the end!}

*** Inside the litigious world of climate hockey sticks

*** Some Notes On The Trial Of Mann v. Steyn

Climate Alarmist Mann is Not Paying a Penny for his Army of Lawyers!

Michael Mann Overboard

If you like audio discussions of the trial, go here.

Manmade Global Warming — Some Other Deceptions:

*** Experts: Trillions Spent on ‘Climate Change’ Based on Faulty Temperature Data

*** The Wind Drought Years Which The Climate Change Committee AND The Royal Society Ignored

*** The Climate Models Are Wrong

*** A New Global Urban Heat Island Dataset: Global Grids of the Urban Heat Island Effect on Air Temperature, 1800-2023

Today’s ‘Climate Crisis’ Is a Fairy Tale

The World’s Forests Are Doing Much Better Than We Think

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** MEP Christine Anderson Torches “Climate Emergency” Policies In Fiery Two-Minute Address

*** Planes, Trains & Automobiles will cease to exist if the climate fanatics have their way with our energy!

Rapid Climate Change Is Not Unique to the Present

El Niños and the Hunga Tonga Sub-Surface Volcanic Eruption

Open peer review: The 2023 Hurricane Season

John Podesta: Portrait of a Consummate Technocrat (and Climate Czar)

US Special Five Part Election Integrity Series:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

*** Part 1: How to Win the US Presidency

*** Part 2: The Rhyme and Reason of Negative Ballots?

*** Part 3: 2020 Presidential Election Related Lawsuits

*** Part 4: Should Voting Machines be Scrapped?

*** Part 5: Have We Had Honest or Dishonest Elections?

US Election:

*** The Corporate Media and Big Tech Interfered in the 2020 Election

*** Reporter Matt Taibbi Uncovers Plot To Stop Trump, Democracy Be Damned

*** Is the Electoral Fix Already In?

*** Elections Undecided by Midnight are Void & Preempted by Federal Law

By ‘Protecting Election Workers,’ Democrats Mean Protecting Control Over Election Administration

Lawsuit Reveals CISA Knew About Mail-in Voting Risks in 2020 While Censoring Related Narratives as ‘Disinformation’

Rank Choice Voting (backed by liberal megadonors) is changing the outcomes of American elections

US Election — State Issues:

*** RNC General Counsel Declines Opportunity to Inspect Voting Machine Code

*** New Jersey political operative charged with mail ballot fraud

Arizona Ballots Cast Without Proof of Citizenship ‘Exploded’ After Lawfare Crippled Election Laws

CORRUPTION: Arizona GOP head Jeff DeWit Stepping Down After Leaked Audio Tapes

Misc US Politics:

*** How to spot a liar: 10 essential tells

*** You say you want a revolution in Texas?

Sorry, but the Accurate Legal Term is ‘Illegal Alien’

An excellent Congressional challenge to “Environmental Justice”

America’s border crisis in ten charts

Understanding The Left on Immigration

Leniency for Leaker of Thousands of IRS Tax Returns

Democrats Spread Russia Collusion Disinformation To Weaponize The FBI

25 reasons Trump won’t pay a dime to E. Jean Carroll

Censorship:

*** The Canadian Truckers Vindicated

*** How To Tell If You’re On A Government Extremism List

CJ Hopkins Acquitted of Thought Crimes

TSA Rolls Out Facial Recognition To All ‘Federalized’ Airports

Societally US:

*** The Fringe Mainstream

Systemic Racism Is Bogus

Globalism:

*** The Art of Psychological Warfare

*** New Journalism and New World Order

The Technocracy’s Masks Are All Off Now

Religion Related:

*** I’m sick and tired of media hatred and censorship of Christians

*** Elon Musk: DEI Is Discrimination and Fundamentally Anti-Semitic

CV19 Vax is Anti-Christ Technology

Who is Helping Biden Facilitate America’s Border Crisis?

Science:

*** Archive: How Alan Sokal Won the Battle but Lost the ‘Science Wars’

*** Alan Sokal’s Joke Is on Us as Postmodernism Comes to Science

*** EPA to unveil scientific integrity plan soon. Will it work?

*** Book: The Scientific Method: A Guide to Finding Useful Knowledge

*** Book: The Scientific Method: Why science is a crucial process for human progress, not just another academic subject or belief

*** In the latest twist of the publishing arms race, firms churning out fake papers have taken to bribing journal editors

States Recently Threw Out Millions of Dollars of Unused Masks and Other Pandemic Gear

Flying Car Lands Airworthiness Certification

How well do you understand placebo effects?

Israel:

Why Israel Must Annihilate Hamas

Time To End UNRWA’s Jihad Against Israel

Latest Developments in Israel: February 3rd

Ukraine/Israel:

Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation

Latest Developments in Ukraine: February 3rd

NATO will launch the biggest drill since the Cold War, with 90,000 troops approaching Russia and Ukraine

COVID-19 — Repeated Important Information:

My webpage (C19Science.info) with dozens of Science-based COVID-19 reports

*** Free, At-Home COVID Tests (from US Govt)

*** World Council of Health: Early COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

*** FLCCC Long COVID Treatment Protocol

*** COVID-19: What You Need To Know (Physicians for Informed Consent)

*** If you have received a COVID-19 injection, here’s how to Detox


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What is ‘The Fifth Crime Ecocide?’ Is Ecocide coming to America or is it already here?

Marc Morano, founder of Climate Depot, appeared on the Glazov Gang to warn about Ecocide coming to America.

WATCH: ‘Ecocide’ Charges – on the Horizon

In a January 17th, 2024 Breibart article titled “Davos Speaker Demands International Criminal Court Prosecute ‘Ecocide’, Punish Farmers Alongside War CriminalsKurt Zindulka reported,

The International Criminal Court should add “ecocide” to its brief alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes to criminalise the side effects of farming, fishing and energy production, a green activist argued during the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Greta Thunberg ally and CEO of Stop Ecocide International Jojo Mehta demanded during a WEF Davos panel dubbed “Where Nature Meets Conflict” on Tuesday that a new international criminal category of “ecocide” to prevent the “mass damage and destruction of nature”.

Mehta, who co-founded Stop Ecocide in 2017 alongside the late green legal activist Polly Higgins, said at the globalist World Economic Forum meeting: “What our organisation and other collaborators aim to do is to have this recognised legally as a serious crime because one of the issues that pervades this discussion is that we have a culturally engrained habit of not taking damage to nature as seriously as we take damage to people and property.”

While proponents of the legislation have often pointed to disasters such as oil spills and nuclear meltdowns, Mehta suggested that ecocide could be extended to include necessary functions of humanity such as agriculture and energy production.

“If you are campaigning for human rights, at least you know mass murder, torture all of these things are serious crimes, but there is no equivalent in environmental space. Unlike an international crime like genocide that involves a specific intent, with ecocide what we see is what people are trying to do is business, is to farm, is fish, is produce energy, but what is missing is the awareness and the conscience of the side effects, around the collateral damage that happens with that,” the green activist said.

Mehta argued that creating the criminal category of “ecocide” would “steer” individuals, businesses, and governments around the world in a “healthier direction”, presumably out of concern of facing prosecution at the International Criminal Court and potentially lengthy prison sentences.

The green activist has previously explained: “One can envisage, for example, once the law is in place, that a decision that leads to a new coal mine or a decision that leads to the opening of new fossil fuel projects will potentially have to be really seriously rethought.”

Read more.

The Bottom Line

There is no crime of Ecocide, rather there is a war going on between those who want to “save the plant” by eliminating us humans. You see these humans see us humans as evil and worthy of punishment.

Punishments like:

  • Taking away all fossil fuels, including liquid hydrogen.
  • Taking away your food, like meat and poultry,  and replacing them with eating bugs.
  • Taking away all of your freedoms to life, liberty and happiness.
  • Farmers can be classified as “war criminals” if Ecocide laws are enacted.
  • Finally, those who are pushing Ecocide are now pushing extending “personhood”, the rights of people, to plants, animals, trees, rivers, lakes and even robots and AI programs.

They want nothing other than total control of how you live, what you purchase, what you eat and what you drive.

This is the definition to totalitarianism.

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Here Are Three Unanswered Questions About Biden EPA’s Massive Green ‘Slush Fund’

As Republican lawmakers prepare to grill a senior Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official about one of President Joe Biden’s massive green grantmaking programs, several questions about the program’s structure and potential beneficiaries remain unanswered.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is sitting on a $27 billion fund known as the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), a program established by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Biden’s landmark climate bill. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is holding an oversight hearing on the program featuring Senior Advisor to the EPA Administrator Zealan Hoover on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., with Republican lawmakers describing the program as possibly spawning “the next big government boondoggle.”

The GGRF intends “to mobilize financing and private capital to address the climate crisis” using several subprograms, according to the EPA. The program’s expeditious timeline, as well as the connections that several of those groups share to the administration and the broader Democratic party apparatus, have attracted the scrutiny of government watchdog groups and elected Republicans alike in recent months.

How is the EPA ensuring that political connections do not interfere with selecting grantees?

Up to $14 billion of GGRF cash could go to so-called “green banks,” or financial institutions that provide financing specifically for climate-related investments, according to the EPA. Three of the five “green bank” consortiums reportedly on the shortlist to potentially receive multi-billion dollar payouts from the GGRF have considerable ties to the Biden administration or the wider Democratic Party and its allies. The coalitions are variously composed of environmental groups, nonprofits and smaller “green banks” that would distribute the awarded funds to projects they deem worthy of the material support.

“Many prospective recipients and sub-recipients are chock full of political operatives as well as individuals and organizations with ties to the current administration and its Democratic predecessors,” Michael Chamberlain, the executive director of Protect the Public’s Trust, a watchdog organization that has closely monitored the GGRF, told the DCNF. “This raises serious questions about the likelihood of the GGRF being used to advance partisan interests or reward former political appointees and those who helped elect the President or create the program.”

For example, the board of directors for the Coalition for Green Capital — one of the groups reportedly in contention for a major payday — includes David Hayes, a senior fellow for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and formerly a climate adviser for Biden; Cecilia Martinez, who is now the Bezos Earth Fund’s chief of environmental and climate justice after a stint in the Biden White House Council on Environmental Quality; and Julie Greene Collier, chief of staff for the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).

The committee could choose to dig into these connections and call on Hoover to provide a detailed description of internal EPA safeguards to ensure a competitive grantmaking process on Tuesday, as well as whether the agency is concerned about potential appearances of ethical impropriety or political patronage with its award decisions.

Why did the agency meet with major green groups about the program in November 2022?

The EPA met with several organizations connected to officials in the agency and the wider administration behind closed doors to discuss the fund in November 2022, about 11 months before the application window closed in October 2023. The meeting served as a chance for groups like the NRDC and the Center for American Progress to “provide early feedback” and “ask clarifying questions” about the GGRF process.

“Holding a chummy meeting with special interest organizations with deep connections to political leadership isn’t a good look,” Chamberlain said at the time.

Protect the Public’s Trust described the meeting as “highly irregular” back in September 2023, and Republican lawmakers could test his theory by asking Hoover to explain why this meeting was held, what specific issues were discussed and whether it is standard EPA practice to meet with activist organizations about major programs like the GGRF behind closed doors before the application window has closed.

How is EPA ensuring due diligence while also rushing to get funds out by September 2024?

The agency is endeavoring to shell out the bulk of the GGRF money by September 2024 per the terms of the IRA, but elected Republicans have suggested that this timeline significantly raises the risks of inadequate oversight. Watchdog groups that have previously raised the alarm on the program concur.

“Haste really does make waste, as we should have learned from the government’s COVID response. When federal programs are fast tracked at the expense of appropriate oversight, they’re vulnerable to waste, fraud, and abuse,” Pete McGinnis, the spokesman for the Functional Government Initiative, told the DCNF. “The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund sure looks like a taxpayer-financed $27 billion slush fund for Biden administration insiders pushing unproven technologies.”

Other similar government programs designed to boost green energy development with taxpayer-funded cash infusions have also shelled out money with a sense of urgency, leading to potential lapses in the due diligence process. the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO), one such program reportedly trying to move funds quickly, agreed to provide one fledgling company a $375 million loan package while it was allegedly defrauding its investors, and another $3 billion package to another company that reportedly exploited elderly customers by having them sign long-term, expensive solar panel installation contracts.

Given the relatively quick timeline and the fact that GGRF grantees may serve as functional grantmakers outside of typical agency controls, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee could press Hoover for detailed plans that demonstrate the agency is prepared to give out the money in a way that appropriately mitigates the inherent risks.

“While we are heartened to see the GGRF on the radar of Congressional overseers, we are equally disturbed about the reasons it has come to their attention. Members of the committee have expressed similar concerns as ours about the tremendous potential for abuse, conflicts, and cronyism inherent in this massive program,” Chamberlain told the DCNF. “The more details that emerge about the $27 billion GGRF, the more disturbed we become of the possibility this could turn out to be a colossal Greendoggle, or worse.”

For its part, the EPA has expressed to the DCNF that it is administering the program by the book.

“All applications submitted to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund competitions are being put through a rigorous evaluation and selection process in line with the high standards of EPA’s Competition Policy, which ensures that the competitive process for EPA funds remains fair, impartial and free of undue influence,” an EPA spokesperson previously told the DCNF.

There are several key questions about the program that remain unanswered, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee has a chance to address the underlying risk factors when they convene Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill to hold a hearing examining the program.

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NICK POPE

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DAVID BLACKMON: The Biden Admin And Its Buddies Are Waging Foolish War Against Abundant Clean Energy

On Thursday, the Biden administration announced it was invoking a hold on permitting processes for proposed new export projects for liquefied natural gas (LNG). It was a nakedly partisan act designed to appease the Democrat party’s climate alarmist funder base, one that will create ripple effects across the global economy and energy space. It will also create uncertainty and alarm among consumers of US LNG, especially among European nations who are supposedly America’s allies.

Reacting to the policy decision, Tom Pyle, President of the DC-based Institute for Energy Research, told me that, “With this decision, President Biden is continuing to place his environmental donors over the American people.  A delay of a decision on [permitting] until after the November 5, 2024, U.S. presidential election could spare President Biden from criticism from environmentalists, but it will likely cause havoc to markets and the energy security of our allies who may question the reliability of the United States as a secure energy supplier.”

Fortunately for the United States and its LNG customers, an array of new export facilities already in the construction phase of development will add up to 12 billion cubic feet per day of new export capacity over the coming three years. These projects would be unmolested by this latest authoritarian move by the White House, absent efforts to expand it.

One of the biggest of these is the Rio Grande LNG project being constructed outside Brownsville, Texas near the mouth of the Rio Grande River. Operated by developer NextDecade, Rio Grande LNG will have the capacity to export 11.74 million tonnes of LNG per year once its three trains go into service in the coming years. That equates to enough energy to heat and cool 34 million households, more energy than all the Biden administration’s planned offshore wind projects combined.

Even better, Rio Grande LNG is being designed to produce LNG that will rank among the lowest carbon-intensive production in the world. That’s because NextDecade is simultaneously building out a massive carbon capture and storage project in conjunction with the export facility.

But, even though Rio Grande LNG and other planned facilities under construction appear to be untouched by the Biden delay, no one should think they are moving ahead unopposed. A pair of activist groups, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) and the Oregon Investment Council (OIC), groups with no real connection to the community, have worked to drum up opposition to the project that is providing hundreds of jobs and ultimately billions of dollars in economic impact for the local area. Ironically, this PESP group is working in opposition to the development despite major investments being made into it by ESG-focused investor groups, potentially including Larry Fink’s BlackRock if a planned acquisition is completed.

Part of the opposition’s advocacy claims to be protecting the interests of the Carrizo Comecrudo Nation with a somewhat specious claim that the project is being sited on sacred lands. But this Carrizo nation is not a federally recognized tribe, likely because a review of its history indicates it is in fact native to Mexico rather than Texas. The claim of sacred lands appears to hold no merit and be purely motivated by politics, no different than the White House delay on permitting announced Thursday.

An email missive from PESP that landed in my email inbox this week also claims that “… the facilities would significantly degrade local fishing, shrimping and natural tourism industries putting communities’ livelihoods at risk.” But the only evidence offered in support of these claims is a “study” authored by a group of leftwing climate alarm groups like the Rainforest Action Network and the Sierra Club. If the claims had been truly quantified by any credible source, the Biden administration would have no doubt been eager to act on them to advance its Green New Deal-based agenda.

The world needs America’s LNG, and is likely to need more and more of it as time goes on. The White House’s action to delay the already-ridiculously slow permitting process in such an obvious political move is as reprehensible as it is, frankly, stupid.

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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DAVID BLACKMON

David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialized in public policy and communications.

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DISASTER: Biden Regime Kills Enormous Natural Gas Projects in Victory for Left-Wing Extremists

“[Environmentalism]  as a social principle . . . condemns cities, culture, industry, technology, the intellect, and advocates men’s return to “nature,” to the state of grunting subanimals digging the soil with their bare hands.” — Ayn Rand


The illegitimate regime is KILLING us. They are killing the country.

Democrats are pushing for natural gas bans, mandates on electric sources.

The immediate goal is obvious: the destruction of the remnants of capitalism in today’s mixed economy, and the establishment of a global dictatorship. This goal does not have to be inferred—many speeches and books on the subject state explicitly that the ecological crusade is a means to that end.’ Ayn Rand, Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

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Dems pushing for natural gas bans, mandates on electric sources

The White House is halting the permitting process for several proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal projects over their potential impacts on climate change, an unprecedented move environmentalists have demanded in recent months.

In a joint announcement Friday morning, the White House and Department of Energy (DOE) said the pause would occur while federal officials conduct a rigorous environmental review assessing the projects’ carbon emissions, which could take more than a year to complete. Climate activists have loudly taken aim at LNG export projects in recent weeks, arguing they will lead to a large uptick in emissions and worsen global warming.

Keep reading.

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Victory! SEC Drops ‘Natural Asset Companies’

Read CFACT’s official Submission to SEC: “Natural asset companies” are a ploy by the anti-development crowd to thwart safe and constructive land use.  The SEC should not sanction non-use over optimal use of resources.


To: Securities and Exchange Commission

From: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow

Re: Order Instituting Proceedings: “Self-Regulatory Organizations; New York Stock Exchange LLC; Order Instituting Proceedings to Determine Whether to Approve or Disapprove a Proposed Rule Change to Amend the NYSE Manual to Adopt Listing Standards for Natural Asset Companies”

File No.: SR-NYSE-2023-09

The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is pleased to submit comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on a proposed rule change by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) creating Natural Asset Companies (NACs), which would be traded on the NYSE. The SEC is seeking comments on whether to approve or disapprove the proposed rule change. CFACT has grave concerns about this proposal and they are explained below.

The SEC was created in the aftermath of the stock market crash of October 24, 1929. Two landmark statutes, the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, set the parameters of the SEC. At its inception, the new federal entity had a mission statement that is worth bearing in mind:

“The Securities and Exchange Commission oversees securities exchanges, securities brokers, investment advisors, and mutual funds in an effort to promote fair dealing, the disclosure of important market information, and to prevent fraud.”

Under the proposed rule, the NYSE would add to its Listed Company Manual the listing of common equity securities of National Asset Companies, or NACs. According to the proposed rule, this would be “a corporation The SEC should not sanction non-use over optimal use of resources, whose primary purpose would be to actively manage, maintain, restore (as applicable), and grow the values of natural assets and their production of ecosystem services.” Notably, the proposed rule characterizes “the distinct purpose of a NAC” as “protect[ing] and grow[ing] the natural assets under its management.” The proposed rule also specifically defines the term “Natural Asset Companies (NACs)” as “[c]orporations that hold the rights to the ecological performance of a defined area and have the authority to manage the areas for conservation, restoration, or sustainable management.”

Origins Rooted in Cronyism

NACs, as a concept, owe their existence to Intrinsic Exchange Group Inc. (IEG). According to a September 2021 press release by the Rockefeller Foundation, “IEG was founded in 2017 by entrepreneur and environmentalist Douglas Eger. IEG received critical funding from IDB Lab, Inter-American Development Bank, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Aberdare Ventures and Intrinsic Entertaining Ideas.” It is worth noting that The Rockefeller Foundation alone donated $750,000 to IEG in 2019 and $1 million to IEG in 2021, according to comments on the proposed rule already submitted to the SEC.

The Rockefeller Foundation’s press release indicates that NACs are a joint project of the NYSE and IEG. The release quotes Eger as follows:

“This new asset class on the NYSE will create a virtuous cycle of investment in nature that will help finance sustainable development for communities, companies, and countries[.] … Together, IEG and the NYSE will enable investors to access nature’s store of wealth and transform our industrial our industrial economy into one that is more equitable.” (emphasis added)

The release goes on to quote NYSE’s then-president Stacy Cunningham as follows:

“With the introduction of Natural Asset Companies, the NYSE will provide investors with an innovative mechanism to financially support the sustainability initiatives they deem critical to our future. Our partnership with Intrinsic Exchange Group is another example of the NYSE tapping into our community to drive meaningful progress on ESG [environmental, social, and governance) issues with a solutions-based approach[.]” (emphasis added)

In addition to the open acknowledgement of cozy relationships between the NYSE and other entities supporting the creation of NACs, key terms or phrases like “community,” “communities,” “equitable,” “our future,” “virtuous,” “sustainable,” “sustainability,” “sustainable development,” and transform” are conspicuously left undefined in both the Rockefeller Foundation press release and in the proposed rule. Furthermore, the release admits that “the value created by NACS is not fully captured by traditional economic metrics.” This is another way of saying that NACs will not and cannot make a profit. NACs will invest in “nature” where the only value created is the purported protection of nature.

In other words, NACs would not be investment vehicles into which ordinary Americans can put their money with a reasonable expectation of receiving a good return. Instead, they would be state-sanctioned instruments of environmental policy as favored by narrow, if powerful, elites ensconced in wealthy foundations, the United Nations, and the NYSE, and corporations with well-positioned bureaucrats in federal agencies.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the role NACs would play in serving as a funding mechanism for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) recent proposed rule, “Conservation and Landscape Health,” which would authorize BLM to grant “conservation leases” on public lands. BLM assures the public that such leases would be “for the purpose of ensuring ecosystem resilience through protecting, managing, or restoring natural environments, cultural or historic resources, and ecological communities, including species and their habitats.” The proposed BLM rule provides that “once the BLM has issued a conservation lease, the BLM shall not authorize any other uses of the leased lands that are inconsistent with the authorized conservation use.” (emphasis added)

This means that once BLM issues a conservation lease, productive economic uses such as grazing, logging, or mining will no longer be allowed unless they are deemed “consistent” with the lease’s environmental purposes.

In short, the NYSE’s rule is an effort to circumvent federal laws governing how public lands are to be managed, not least the 1976 Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLMPA). FLPMA mandates that BLM manage public lands “on the basis of multiple use and sustained yield.” This means that BLM must provide for a “combination of balanced and diverse uses,” of which the “principle or major uses” include, “and are limited to, domestic livestock grazing, fish and wildlife development and utilization, mineral exploration and production, rights-of-way, outdoor recreation, and timber production.” Nothing in FLMPA authorizes the granting of “conservation leases,” and the BLM rule’s restrictions on productive economic uses of lands under such a lease put it at odds with congressional intent as clearly laid out in FLPMA.

By violating the clear language of FLPMA, the proposed BLM rule is illegal and is destined to be overturned by the courts. Yet its provision creating “conservation leases” is inextricably linked to the NACs rule currently before the SEC. Such leases will not provide financial returns to the leaseholders. On the contrary, they are specifically designed to lock up lands to prohibit any economic use thereof. So which entities would sink money into the unprofitable leases?

The answer is NACs. Like conservation leases, NACs are not designed to make money. NACs are strictly limited in their ability to conduct “revenue-generating” operations and can only do so if those operations are “consistent with” the NAC’s “primary purpose,” under which the operation will “not cause any material adverse impact on the natural assets” under the NAC’s control.

Not in Accordance with Law”

As the Attorney Generals from 25 states noted in comments submitted to the SEC on January 9, 2024:

“The BLM rule authorizes BLM to issue leases that limit public lands to no use or to extremely limited uses. The NYSE’s proposed rule change in turn provides the mechanism by which companies can obtain the funding necessary to pay for those money-losing leases. In this way, the proposed rule is part of an interlocking scheme designed to facilitate another agency’s violation of the law – namely, BLM’s issuance of illegal ‘conservation leases.’ Facilitating another agency’s violations is a textbook example of ultra vires agency action ‘not in accordance with law.’”

Furthermore, FLPMA does not define conservation as a principle or major use of public lands. The NAC rule cannot categorically dismiss these clear multiple-use and sustained yield FLPMA directives. The NAC rule unlawfully proposes to substitute non-use for multiple-use on public lands. Under the proposed NAC listing rules before the SEC, NACs would be prohibited from permitting mining, logging, fossil-fuel development, and industrial-scale agriculture on NAC-held lands because these activities are explicitly and categorically defined as “unsustainable.”

Given the shaky legal ground on which the NYSE proposed NACs rule stands, it has little chance of surviving what promises to be a multitude of court challenges. Additionally, the economic and social harm to everyday Americans by the scheme’s plan to lock up so much of the nation’s natural resources in perpetuity is incalculable. For these reasons, CFACT urges the SEC to reject the proposed NAC rule in toto. Only in this way can the SEC remain true to its mission statement cited above.

Thank you very much.

Bonner Russell Cohen, Ph. D.
Senior Policy Analyst
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Washington, D.C.

https://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-01-09-Comment-Letter-to-SEC-re-File-No.-SR-NYSE-2023-09.pdf

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Will the Pentagon’s solar panels be Chinese?

The Energy Department has announced it is putting solar panels on the roof of the Pentagon for environmental reasons. No study has been done on the feasibility of this venture. No one has figured out the actual capacity needed, the percentage of power it could generate, whether the Pentagon’s building can support such an installation or how disruptive installing a solar system could be to Pentagon operations, or even how long it would take. Furthermore, nothing has been done to figure out whether a solar power system will undermine the building’s electronic security.

The other big question is where will the solar system for the Pentagon come from? Will the panels be Chinese? What about the batteries? The switching system? If Chinese, could they bug the system?

Eight out of ten solar panels installed in the United States come from China. Even if the Pentagon buys American-made panels, the metallurgical grade silicon and polysilicon needed for solar panels mostly comes from China.

In addition, if the Pentagon is really going to rely for its operation on solar energy it will need massive batteries. The batteries will be based on lithium, and China is the world’s second-largest producer. When it comes to the actual batteries, the Solarquotes blog says this: “Six of the world’s ten largest lithium-ion battery companies are in China. They produced a whopping 79 percent of all lithium-ion batteries that entered the global market in 2021 and are projected to remain the leading country in lithium-ion battery manufacturing in 2025.”

Even if the battery packs are American, the individual batteries inside them probably come from Asia, most likely China.

The Pentagon is supposed to follow the Buy America Act. Usually, that is interpreted to mean that domestically sourced portions of the acquisition must add up to more than half the total cost. Vendors, however, are allowed to count installation costs in figuring the percent of US content.

Moreover, Buy America requirements are often waived. That has been necessary for the past three decades since Chinese-made computers, laptops, modems, and other electronics are used regularly even in strategic nuclear submarines. This is done by using “waivers” that are in the Act and in the Act’s regulations. A key provision allows waivers: “The provisions of the act may be waived if the head of the procuring agency determines the act to be inconsistent with the public interest or the cost of acquiring the domestic product is unreasonable.”

Neither the Department of Energy, which is providing the initial funding, nor the Defense Department is likely to look too hard if the stuff is full of Chinese content.

If the Pentagon gets a solar system, one hopes that the storage batteries are installed in a building separate from the Pentagon – in the same way that the Pentagons independent power plant is in a separate building.

While the Energy Department says it is paying for the solar panels, it’s likely that the installation cost and new buildings plus the special wiring and switching systems will have to come out of the Pentagon’s budget.

Read more.

Originally published by Asia Times

AUTHOR

Stephen Bryen

Senior Fellow.

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Electric Vehicles are Fleecing Us Out of Billions

When you buy a new internal combustion vehicle, you are also paying for someone else’s electric vehicle.

While the subsidies are egregious enough, it turns out EV manufacturers are fleecing us out of billions, and doing it with government help.

Attorneys Michael Buschbacher and James Conde explain at The Wall Street Journal:

When carmakers test gasoline-powered vehicles for compliance with the Transportation Department’s fuel-efficiency rules, they must use real values measured in a laboratory. By contrast, under an Energy Department rule, carmakers can arbitrarily multiply the efficiency of electric cars by 6.67. This means that although a 2022 Tesla Model Y tests at the equivalent of about 65 miles per gallon in a laboratory (roughly the same as a hybrid), it is counted as having an absurdly high compliance value of 430 mpg. That number has no basis in reality or law.

Government subsidies and mandates wildly distort automobile production.  And as Buschbacher and Conde further explain, this funny math sucker punches us all, right in the wallet:

For exaggerating electric-car efficiency, the government rewards carmakers with compliance credits they can trade for cash. Economists estimate these credits could be worth billions: a vast cross-subsidy invented by bureaucrats and paid for by every person who buys a new gasoline-powered car.

CFACT has been educating the public on the myriad follies stemming from government pushing us to buy electric vehicles for years.

Buschbacher and Conde remind us that makers of diesel vehicles, Volkswagen in particular, were fined tens of billions of dollars for fudging their emissions compliance math.

There should be no double standards for EV manufacturers fudging their math to cash in on compliance credits.

The government agencies enabling EV makers to fleece the public should be called to account as well.

AUTHOR

Craig Rucker

Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C., Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in such media outlets as Fox News, OANN, Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hill, among many others. Rucker is also the co-producer of the award-winning film “Climate Hustle,” which was the #1 box-office film in America during its one night showing in 2016, as well as the acclaimed “Climate Hustle 2” staring Hollywood actor Kevin Sorbo released in 2020. As an accredited observer to the United Nations, Rucker has also led CFACT delegations to some 30 major UN conferences, including those in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Rio de Janeiro, and Warsaw, to name a few.

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AWED MEDIA BALANCED NEWS: We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

Welcome! We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

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*** Mann v. Steyn Finally Gets Under Way

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*** Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere

*** “Chevron Defense” on Trial

*** Globalists are using ‘Green Energy’ to destroy our way of life!

*** Progressive lawmakers line up behind costly fix for error they made in renewable energy plan

*** Energy Illiterate Halfwits Responsible for Subsidized Wind & Solar Death Spiral

*** Tucker Carlson: The Truth about Fossil Fuels, Wind Energy & Climate Change

*** Critical Thinking Is THE Answer

*** Critical Thinking vs. Common Sense

*** Parent Engagement Field Guide

*** Message to the American People ~ Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano (1-15-24)

*** John Kerry to resign as Biden climate czar

*** What is Climate? (Dr. Lindzen)

*** The Folly of Net Zero

*** Offshore Wind Woes

*** The Multibillion-Dollar Offshore Wind Bet Gone Wrong

*** Why Nuclear Is the Best Energy

*** France drops renewables targets, prioritiszes nuclear in new energy bill

*** The Electric-Vehicle Cheating Scandal

*** Hertz will shed 20,000 EVs and buy more gas-powered cars: ‘The elevated costs associated with EVs persisted’

Part 1: How to Win the US Presidency

Part 2: The Rhyme and Reason of Negative Ballots?

Part 3: 2020 Presidential Election Related Lawsuits

*** Outcomes of the 92 Election Cases from the 2020 Election Reveal Widely Divergent Decisions by Judges: Part 1

*** Ten thousand people could decide the presidential election

*** Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Trump

*** The Republican Party May Be Trying to Throw the 2024 Election in Key States

*** Please consider contributing to John Eastman’s Legal Defense Fund

*** The Establishment Is Unmasking Itself

*** Julie Su Sued Over Freelancer Rule

*** What Is “REAL ID”?

*** COVID: The Parallel History

*** Fauci admits social distancing not based on science!

*** Report: COVID-19: The Science We Should Know

*** The Importance of Supporting Real Science in the Battle Against Narrative Science

*** Marik’s Miracle

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*** Report: The Key to Fixing the US Education System

*** Critical Thinking Is THE Answer

*** Critical Thinking vs. Common Sense

*** Parent Engagement Field Guide

Restoring the Canon to K–12 English Language Arts Standards

NBC’s PragerU Hit Piece: Dennis and Marissa React

Unknown gender transition of an eighth-grade girl raises major parental rights concern

Colorado HS Participation Ribbon for Delusion

Understanding Equitable Grading Jargon

A Fail of Two Cities

Higher Education Related:

*** Why Americans Have Lost Faith in the Value of College

*** Viewpoint-Neutral Teaching Isn’t Enough

Moral Corruption at Community Colleges

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Rice Dumbs Down Chemistry

Michigan Spending Over $30 Million Annually on 500+ DEI Jobs

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AI-driven fake news an urgent global risk ahead of major elections

Greed Energy Economics:

*** Why “Renewables” cannot save, but cost Billions

*** By Slashing Subsidies, California Has Dealt a Blow to Renewable Energy

Electricity Prices Are Soaring: It’s Time to Hold the “Energy Transition” Accountable

Trade unions alarmed by EU’s industrial collapse

Unreliables (General):

*** Globalists are using ‘Green Energy’ to destroy our way of life!

*** Progressive lawmakers line up behind costly fix for error they made in renewable energy plan

*** Energy Illiterate Halfwits Responsible for Subsidized Wind & Solar Death Spiral

Why Not Wind and Solar Now?

Michigan Dems Big Foot The Locals

Freezing to Fight Global Warming

Wind Energy — Offshore:

*** Offshore Wind Woes

*** The Multibillion-Dollar Offshore Wind Bet Gone Wrong

Major wind project was dependent on Biden admin waiving taxpayer safeguard

Does noisy construction of offshore wind farms disturb marine animals?

Fed’s first multi-site offshore wind EIS is ridiculous

Wind Energy — Other:

*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)

*** Short video: Destroying Bio-Diversity to “Save the Climate” is Ecocidal

Osage Minerals Council Chairman: “We Fought the Battle on Behalf of Our Children’s Future”

Solar Energy:

Solar facility fire

Nuclear Energy:

*** Why Nuclear Is the Best Energy

*** France drops renewables targets, prioritiszes nuclear in new energy bill

*** Unjust Transition at Indian Point: How Politicians and Non-Profits Betrayed New York With Pseudoscience

Cancelled NuScale contract weighs heavy on new nuclear

Fossil Fuel Energy:

A $290 Billion Investment Cements Natural Gas’s Relevance for Decades

*** Tucker Carlson: The Truth about Fossil Fuels, Wind Energy & Climate Change

CEI leads coalition opposing carbon tariffs and the PROVE IT Act

India’s Plans to Double Coal Production, Ignoring Climate Pledges

China’s 2023 coal output hits record high

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

*** The Electric-Vehicle Cheating Scandal

*** Hertz will shed 20,000 EVs and buy more gas-powered cars: ‘The elevated costs associated with EVs persisted’

*** $2 Billion in Subsidies, Only 2 EV Stations Opened. The Holdup is Social Justice

Tesla Semi trucks hauling corn chipsThe Electric-Vehicle Cheating Scandal

For truckers driving EVs, there’s no going back

EV Mandates Are Coming, but are EVs Even Practical in Cold-Weather States?

Misc Energy:

*** Woke Duke Energy Jacks Up Electric Rates to Pay for ESG, Zero Carbon Mandates

*** A Federal Power Grid Would be Everyone’s Worst Nightmare

*** The Electric Grid Explained In 10 Charts

Rolling power outages implemented on Oahu. Hawaii

Manmade Global Warming — Mann-Steyn Trial:

*** Mann v. Steyn Finally Gets Under Way

*** The link between ‘defending Michael Mann is defending climate science’ seems to have been broken

*** Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere

Archive: Judge Strikes All of Michael Mann’s Expert Witnesses from Libel Suit

Day One in Court

Mann v. Steyn Goes to Trial After 12 Years

Watch the Mann-Steyn Trial Live

Manmade Global Warming — Some Other Deceptions:

*** Glen Back: government SCAM would be the ‘Destruction of rural America’

*** The Folly of Net Zero

Misrepresentation and Scaremongering is Not the Way to Challenge Facts

Sorry Biden, CO2 Is Not Pollution. It’s The Currency Of Life

The Not-So-Scary Truth About Climate Change

To fight climate change, Oregon State University researchers push novel plan: Educate more girls, eat less meat

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** John Kerry to resign as Biden climate czar

*** What is Climate? (Dr. Lindzen)

*** Status Report From Another Would Be “Climate Leader”: The UK

‘Global Warming Would Save Lives’ Gregory Wrightstone

The Ugly Truth Is Out: Climate Scientists Want Power

As climate lawsuits wind through the courts, concerns arise over the impartiality of the judges

Third of UK teenagers believe climate change exaggerated, report shows

Arctic Sea Ice Soars to Highest Level in 21 Years

Fighting for Truth in Climate Science Is Important

US Special Five-Part Election Integrity Series:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

Part 1: How to Win the US Presidency

Part 2: The Rhyme and Reason of Negative Ballots?

Part 3: 2020 Presidential Election Related Lawsuits

Part 4 & Part 5 will be published shortly.

US Election:

*** Outcomes of the 92 Election Cases from the 2020 Election Reveal Widely Divergent Decisions by Judges: Part 1

*** Ten thousand people could decide the presidential election

*** Video: John Eastman – Orwelliam Dystopia 1984 Comes To 2024

*** Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Trump

Nonprofits … Not Flying Under the Radar Anymore

Democracy dies in adulterated voter rolls

Report: Minority Electorates and Ranked-Choice Voting Executive Summary

How Democrats Sold Out The Working Class

Wisconsin Voter Alliance Files Amicus Curiae Against Disqualifying Presidential Candidates

Voting fraud Is widespread

Vladimir Putin Calls Out America’s Rigged 2020 Election

Trump’s Ballot Disqualification Case Reaches Supreme Court

Trailer: ’Rigged’ — Death Of The American Voter

US Election — State Issues:

*** House Proposal for Uniform State ACE Act

Secretary of the State Urges In-Person Voting Citing Election Fraud Concerns

‘Insane’: Illegals Can Vote Without ID, Vote by Mail in Blue States

Maryland Elections Have Been Illegally Administered Since 2015

RITE Takes Maryland to Court for Violating Federal Voting Law

Lawsuit Uncovers How GA Sec of State Tried To Memory-Hole the Election Law Trump’s Georgia Call was About

Georgia House Speaker Burns calls for more changes to state election laws

Investigators Uncover Fake MI Addresses On Voter Rolls—One Address Has 19 Registered Voters—8 of Them VOTED In 2020 and 2022 Elections

Democrats are Forcing Ranked-Choice Voting on Alaskans Who Oppose It

Virginia county revises 2020 election vote totals after discovering ‘reporting errors’ that miscalculated thousands of votes

NC Counties Withdraw From Democrats’ ‘Zuckbucks 2.0’ Dark Money Group

Misc US Politics:

*** “Chevron Defense” on Trial

*** Please consider contributing to John Eastman’s Legal Defense Fund

*** The Establishment Is Unmasking Itself

*** The Republican Party May Be Trying to Throw the 2024 Election in Key States

Tucker Carlson: Democrats are backing Nikki Haley

Nikki Haley Wants to House 1 Million Palestinian Refugees in USA

AAF on Carbon Tax: “Republicans Should Know Better”

Just Because You Did Something Doesn’t Mean You Did it Well

Censorship US:

Jordan Peterson Loses Appeal Against Regulatory College

Red Alert: The Total, Final Obliteration Of Free Speech In 2024

Weinstein To Carlson: W.H.O. Intends To End Free Speech In America

WEF Declares All-Out War on Free Speech as World’s Greatest Threat

Societally US:

*** ‘Fatherlessness’ is one of the ‘true root causes’ of crime in America: Jason Riley

*** Musk: Boeing prioritizing diversity and inclusion over flier safety

US Politics and Socialism:

*** Julie Su Sued Over Freelancer Rule

*** What Is “REAL ID”?

*** Tucker Carlson: Javier Milei’s Ruthless Attack on Communism

The 1984 Chevron doctrine is at the core of two Supreme Court cases

Natural Asset Companies:

*** Beware the SEC’s Creation of ‘Natural Asset’ Companies

*** The Next ESG Frontier: Natural Asset Companies

Just say no to Natural Asset Companies

GOP AGs denounce trading ‘natural asset companies’ on stock exchange

The Troubling Rise of Natural Asset Companies

*** Winning! Natural Asset Company Rule has been Withdrawn

Globalism:

*** Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano informal talk (1-4-24)

*** Message to the American People ~ Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano (1-15-24)

*** Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts Goes Scorched Earth on Global Elites

The Chinese Theory of “Double Circulation”

Religion Related:

*** Faith under fire: The biggest US religious freedom stories of 2023

Pope Francis Praises Marxist-Christian Dialogue : ‘A Fine Program’

Science:

*** The Importance of Supporting Real Science in the Battle Against Narrative Science

*** Meta-Science vs. Meta-Physics: How many false discoveries are there?

*** The Debate of Covid Science Part 2: A Team of Covid Experts Debate The Opinions Of British Columbia’s College Of Physicians And Surgeons

*** Government Funded Science Has a Major Fraud Problem

Government Grants Inject Race Into Science

Health:

*** Marik’s Miracle

***New Alzheimer’s treatment accelerates removal of plaque from the brain in clinical trials

Quaker expands December product recall over Salmonella contamination

Dr. Richard Bartlett: Will the Next Pandemic Come from a Colorado Bat Lab?

Israel:

Israel’s Official International Website on Hamas’ Crimes Against Humanity Launched

Iranian proxies stepping up their drone attacks in war with Israel

Watch: The Hamas-Iran Alliance

Ukraine/Israel:

Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation

Latest Developments in Ukraine: January 7th

Latest Developments in Israel: January 7th

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** COVID: The Parallel History

*** Fauci admits social distancing not based on science!

*** Report: COVID-19: The Science We Should Know

*** Hospital Forces Family Not to Talk About Using IVM for COVID

COVID-19 Vaccines May Cause Harm Five Years after Injection

NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers causes uproar after demolishing Fauci, COVID narrative on ESPN

Japanese doctors confirm: THOUSANDS of papers have reported crippling and/or deadly side effects of “vaccination” — unprecedented in the history of medicine

COVID-19 May Have Come From Chinese Laboratory, Dr. Fauci’s Former Boss Says

Covid Vaccines Produce Random Junk Proteins Thanks to an “Invention” Which Coincidentally Won the Nobel Prize

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John Curtis Has History Of Raking In Thousands From Green Energy Donors

  • Utah GOP Rep. John Curtis, who splits with many on the right on the issue of climate change, has received thousands in campaign donations from green energy donors, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
  • Curtis recently jumped in the race for outgoing Sen. Mitt Romney’s seat in 2024 after initially opting against such a bid, adding to the crowded Republican primary field.
  • “The Republican primary voters [sic] will have a choice to pick somebody as their nominee who is either more like Sen. [Mike] Lee, who I would argue is a true conservative, or more like Sen. [Mitt] Romney, who has never really been much of a conservative especially on these issues,” Tom Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Republican Rep. John Curtis of Utah, who recently jumped into the race for outgoing Sen. Mitt Romney’s seat, has raked in thousands of dollars in donations for his congressional bids from the green energy industry, according to campaign finance records.

Curtis launched a campaign for Senate on Jan. 2 after previously ruling it out shortly after Romney announced he would not seek another term in the upper chamber, adding to the primary already chock-full of prominent Republicans. The congressman, who has split from many on the right about climate change, brought in thousands from green energy organizations and companies’ affiliated political action committees (PACs) during his four House bids, Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show.

“Congressman Curtis is one of the leaders of a small but vocal minority in the Republican Party that thinks that the Republicans need to capitulate on the issue of climate change for fear of losing younger voters, and the survey data simply just doesn’t bear that out,” Tom Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Curtis is the chair of the Conservative Climate Caucus, which states its goal is to reduce emissions while not limiting consumer choices. The caucus aims to inform members of “climate policies and legislation consistent with conservative values.”

The congressman believes that curbing climate change will bolster the economy rather than hinder it through promoting energy innovation in the private sector, like carbon capture, according to Politico.

The Bipartisan Climate Action’s political arm has given $13,500 in donations to the congressman’s campaign from 2021 to 2023, FEC data shows. The group is focused on reelecting members who push “significant, enduring, and bipartisan legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”

Between 2020 and 2022, the Environmental Defense Action Fund’s affiliated PAC donated $5,500 to Curtis’ congressional campaign, according to FEC filings. The nonprofit’s political arm, which is committed to “electing climate champions,” encourages the Biden administration to promote electric vehicles and reduce emissions.

Sunnova Energy’s corporate PAC contributed $1,000 to Curtis’s efforts in May 2023, along with another $1,000 donation in late September, just after he announced he was considering running for Senate, according to FEC filings. The company allegedly took advantage of elderly customers who were near-death by convincing them to sign expensive multi-decade rooftop solar contracts, according to The Washington Free Beacon.

“A lot of those companies are looking for a way to try to create a sense of bipartisanship in the sort of climate agenda. And when you have a member in the Republican Party that makes overtures about climate change, naturally, they will gravitate towards him,” Pyle said.

The campaign also brought in donations from the Solar Energy Industries Association’s affiliated PAC to the tune of $12,500 between 2022 and 2023, FEC records show. The trade association hopes that solar will “achieve 30% of U.S. electricity generation by 2030.”

Aligned PACs for SunPower and SunRun, two solar energy companies, have both given $2,500 to the congressman’s campaign in 2022 and 2023, respectively, according to FEC data.

Other affiliated PACs for green energy companies like NextEra EnergySempra Energy and Noble Energy have also donated thousands to Curtis’ campaign, to the tune of a combined $11,500 since 2018, according to FEC filings.

Curtis has been critical of the Biden administration’s costly green energy efforts, including the president’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, according to Politico. The congressman hosts the “Conservative Climate Summit” on college campuses to engage with younger voters on the issue, and has travelled abroad to the last three U.N. climate summits.

“Being a marginal Republican, he will be a very popular candidate with Republican front groups, like [Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions] and Clear Path. He will also be popular with formerly Republican-leaning operations like the [American Petroleum Institute] and the Chamber,” Mike McKenna, GOP strategist and former Trump administration energy adviser, told the DCNF. “He may be one of the few people in Utah who would not be an upgrade from Sen. [Mitt] Romney.”

Curtis, former mayor of Provo, Utah, used to be a Democrat and served as his county party chair in the early 2000s, according to Deseret News.

Brent Orrin Hatch, son of the late Sen. Orrin Hatch who was succeeded by Romney, jumped into the race on the same day as Curtis. State House Speaker Brad Wilson launched a Senate bid in late September, and Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs has been running for Romney’s seat since May.

The Cook Political Report characterizes Romney’s seat as in the “Solid R” category. The GOP primary will be held on June 25.

A Guidant Polling and Strategy survey released in mid-December found Curtis with 40% support among the crowded Republican primary field, followed by Wilson at 11% and Staggs at 6%. The remaining 43% of likely primary voters were not yet sure of their choice.

“Voters of Utah will have a choice,” Pyle said. “The Republican primary voters [sic] will have a choice to pick somebody as their nominee who is either more like Sen. [Mike] Lee, who I would argue is a true conservative, or more like Sen. [Mitt] Romney, who has never really been much of a conservative especially on these issues.”

Curtis’ campaign did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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MARY LOU MASTERS

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KEVIN MOONEY: Biden Admin’s New Climate Rules Could Mean Big Payday For His Buddies, Burden For American Businesses

In a setback for former government officials and attorneys poised to cash in on proposed climate disclosure rules, the Securities and Exchange Commission continued to kick the ball down the road last year.

Many of the objections raised in public comments revolve around so-called Scope 3 emissions that are not directly produced by companies and instead result from what occurs “upstream” and “downstream” of a company’s activities. That’s a problem because if the SEC rule is finalized the commission would effectively extend its jurisdiction to include private companies that transact business with public firms registered with the SEC.

There’s a strong case to be made that under this scenario the commission would be overstepping its authority, which would help to explain why the SEC has continuously slow-walked its proposal.

But there’s additional intrigue involving a somewhat unheralded “carbon accounting” firm equipped with specialized software known as Persefoni that could also gum up the works. The for-profit outfit founded in 2020 has managed to recruit several high-ranking SEC officials who all had a hand in crafting the climate rules first introduced in March 2022.

These include Allison Herren Lee, a former acting chair of the SEC, Kristina Wyatt, who served as the SEC’s senior counsel for climate and environmental, social, and corporate government (ESG), and Emily Pierce who served as the SEC’s assistant director in the Office of International Affairs.

The SEC estimates that it will cost anywhere from $460,000 to $640,000 for companies to comply with the new rules during the first year they are in operation. Given the complexity involved in tracking Scope 3 emissions, it’s not too difficult to imagine how Persefoni stands to benefit financially from software and accounting services specifically tailored for this purpose.

In fact, that appears to have been the plan right from the get-go. Influence Watch describes how the accounting firm and environmental activists joined forces to have substantial input on the disclosure rules. Moreover, Persefoni is prominently mentioned throughout the SEC proposal. But it’s not just carbon accountants who stand to benefit at the expense of companies that fall within the purview of the SEC.

Dan Kish, a senior fellow at the Institute for Energy Research, a Washington-based nonprofit, sees a potential “big payday for law firms” attached to the SEC’s supply chain reporting mandates.

“This is all about expanding the size and scope of government,” he said in an interview. “Lawyers can get involved with a class action lawsuit and they’ll say this particular company didn’t properly report their emissions. You can expect the lawyers to take a huge chunk from these suits. This gets into very gray areas about how a company can be expected to account for every single item along the supply chain.”

Kish continued:

“You’ll have lawyers intervening supposedly to protect the public interest, but they’ll be raking in all kinds of cash. The process doesn’t stop here since the law firms will then dump campaign contributions into the coffers of the people pushing these policies.”

The SEC’s actions can be viewed as just one small part of President Biden’s “whole-of-government effort” to push climate initiatives at the expense of taxpayers and energy producers.

Companies in the energy-intensive states, such as Pennsylvania, will likely feel a greater financial burden, explained Gordon Tomb, a senior fellow with Commonwealth Foundation, a free market think tank headquartered in Harrisburg, explained. (RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: Left-Wing Billionaires Have A New Plan Up Their Sleeves In War On Fossil Fuels)

Pennsylvania is the second largest net supplier of energy to other states and the largest exporter of electricity to other states,” Tomb said. “As such, private companies supporting enterprises that emit carbon dioxide in the production of energy number at least in the hundreds and their employees in the many thousands. Imposing costs artificially constructed to advance a quasi-religious climate ideology and create ways for the politically connected to make money without producing a benefit is viciously economically destructive.”

Ultimately, it’s up to Congress to reign in overreaching executive agencies. Last June, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, (R-K.Y.) and Senate Banking Committee ranking member Tim Scott (R-S.C.) sent a joint letter to the SEC seeking information and documentation providing insight into the commission’s relationship with Persefoni and environmental activist groups. That’s an encouraging sign, but hardly sufficient for the potential victims of burdensome new regulations.

AUTHOR

KEVIN MOONEY

Kevin Mooney is the Senior Investigative Reporter at the Commonwealth Foundation, Pennsylvania’s free-market think tank, and writes for several national publications. Twitter: @KevinMooneyDC.

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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