remains at or near record highs, and they have not dropped since Biden took office. Biden’s proposals to curtail federal fossil fuel leasing have not yet had any effect on production and less than one-quarter of gas and oil production happens on federal lands and waters.
On Thursday, a coalition of moderates from both parties, including Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Sen. Jon Tester of Montana and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska introduced a bill that would ban. Green New Deal author Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., has an alternative bill that would do the same but also develop a strategy to prioritize clean energy.
. “There is no separating Russian oil from the corruption and human rights abuses of the Putin regime.about climate change in recent weeks. As attention has shifted towards Ukraine, he hasn’t made the connection between the conflict and fossil fuel dependence that Casten and environmental activists have. In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, Biden mentioned climate change only in passing, and not in reference to the war.that the U.S.
“We don’t have a strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy,” she told reporters traveling on Air Force One on Wednesday. “That would raise prices at the gas pump for Americans."