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EV Battery Packs Could Exacerbate ‘Fatality Crisis’ on Roads, Experts Warn

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Officials in the automotive industry raised concerns that the weight of electric vehicles may cause more serious traffic accidents. On average, EVs weigh thousands of pounds greater than gas powered vehicles. According to the Daily Caller, the 2023 Hummer EV pickup weighs 9,000 pounds—including the nearly...

Sanders Shrugs Off Inflationary Spending for Sake of Green New Deal Agenda

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., indicated on Thursday he doesn't care that the exorbitant cost of the Left's radical Green New Deal could be exponentially higher than what was projected by the Congressional Budget Office. Sanders was asked by MSNBC's Chris Hayes if he had any apprehensions...

Nanny-State California Passes Unprecedented Emissions Rules for Trains

(Headline USA) California approved Thursday a first-in-the-nation rule limiting rail pollution to aggressively cut greenhouse gas emissions in the state's latest move to establish itself as a global leader in the fight against so-called climate change. The move is likely to have resounding effects that further suppress the economy as...

‘Insane’: Biden Energy Sec. Torched for Proposing All-Electric Vehicles for Military

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is under fire after saying before the Senate Armed Services Committee that she wants the U.S. military to adopt an all-electric vehicle fleet by 2030.  Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, asked if she supported the leftist proposal, to which Granholm replied affirmatively.  “I do and...

Biden Regime under Fire for Wind Energy Projects

(Abdul--Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) The executive directors of a federally-established fishery councils along the East Coast expressed alarming concern to the Biden administration last year over the threats posed by the regime's radical green energy agenda, specifically offshore wind energy projects.  "As we have stated in several past comment...

Gas Prices Soar as Biden Energy Policies Batter Consumers

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The Biden administration's failing domestic agenda and anti-independent energy policies have led to U.S. gasoline prices spiking to the highest level since the end of the last year. According to Oil Price, the major source for oil and energy news, U.S. gasoline prices rose for the...

EXCLUSIVE: Ohio Residents Plead to Stop Demolition of Uranium-Tainted Buildings

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Department of Energy uses words such as “remediation,” “decommission,” and “deactivation” to describe what’s going on in the tiny Appalachian town of Piketon, Ohio—the home of a facility that was used to enrich uranium for nuclear bombs during the Cold War. But Piketon residents say that...

Court Throws out Berkeley’s Ban on Natural Gas

(Headline USA) A federal appeals court on Monday overturned Berkeley, California's first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, agreeing with restaurant owners who argued the city bypassed federal energy regulations when it approved the ordinance. The measure, which took effect in 2020 to cheers from environmentalists, was intended to...

EPA Targets End of Gasoline Vehicles w/ New Emission Standards

(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced new proposed federal vehicle emissions standards critics claim will “effectively ban gasoline and diesel vehicles” while making the U.S. dependent on China. The EPA proposal of light and heavy-duty vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards is for model years...

POLL: Fewer than Half of Americans Plan on Switching to Electric Vehicles

(Headline USA) Many Americans aren’t yet sold on going electric for their next cars, a new poll shows, with high prices and too few charging stations the main deterrents. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults are at least somewhat likely to switch, but despite an array of incentives for consumers...

Los Angeles Is Sitting on $1B for Water Storage

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) As the West faces extended droughts and water shortages, Los Angeles officials thought they would get ahead of the curve by investing about $1 billion into water storage solutions. Now, four years later, the droughts are intensifying while that money sits unspent, according to the according...

Biden Admin. Plans New Crackdown on Gas-Powered Vehicles

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) President Joe Biden and his EPA administration plan to crack down on all gas-powered vehicles with a new executive branch proposal, placing the most stringent restrictions yet on gas car manufacturers, stopping just shy of an outright ban. Though the proposal has not yet been published, they...
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