In April, the Biden administration announced that it was restoring environmental regulations under NEPA that President Donald Trump had rolled back in 2020. Trump’s decision was motivated by a desire to cut red tape and make it easier to complete infrastructure projects in America.
The move has been described as “painful but necessary” by the government’s environmentalist economics minister, Robert Habeck. It has the backing of leading Greens in the coalition government, who argue it is needed as a short-term crisis management tool.
There are nearly half a million electric cars in the UK, and rising fuel prices have prompted more people to consider making the switch.
1) A major concession that their energy policies have been a disaster
2) Why did it take THIS level of pain for working families to end their blockade?
3) this is only 20% of the land available for leasing so still largely symbolic
The Biden administration-driven transition from fossil fuels may be hobbled by the difficulty of procuring critical minerals, many of which are mined and processed by China, the authors of a think tank analysis warn.
Any rational human being understands that poisoning our environment is short-sighted, stupid, and potentially suicidal.
eabed miner positions itself as an ecological crusader with a planned $2.9 billion valuation, even as oceanographers warn of ruined habitats
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