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Biden Iran envoy boasted of depriving civilians of food, driving up Iranian inequality in sadistic sanctions manual
Published: March 8, 2021
Richard Nephew has taken personal credit for depriving Iranians of food, driving up their unemployment rates, and celebrated the economic destruction he caused as “a tremendous success.” Under Biden, he will help direct policy on Iran.
The Joseph Biden administration has named Richard Nephew as its Deputy Iran Envoy. As the former Principal Deputy Coordinator of Sanctions Policy for Barack Obama’s State Department, Nephew took personal credit for depriving Iranians of food, sabotaging their automobile industry and driving up unemployment rates. He has described the destruction of Iran’s economy as “a tremendous success,” and lamented during a visit to Russia that food was still plentiful in the country’s capital despite mounting US sanctions.
A Furious Industry Backlash Greets Moves by California Cities to Ban Natural Gas in New Construction
Gas bans and restrictions, and the industry pushback, is part of a battle on many fronts over the future of natural gas in homes and businesses.
March 5, 2021
Center Street, near the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley was the first city in the United States to pass an ordinance that banned natural gas hookups in new construction. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
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Second in a series with the Seattle Times on the future of natural gas in homes and businesses.
The American Petroleum Institute, the top lobbying group for the oil and gas industry, is moving toward endorsing a carbon tax. But analysts debate whether API sees it as a way to undercut other policies or as a step forward on climate change.
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HAS THE HILL MOVED ON FROM CARBON PRICING? Big business trade groups, including
“I think it’s time to try something new,” House Energy and Commerce Chairman
Frank Pallone told reporters yesterday, noting past carbon pricing schemes have floundered in Congress.
Pallone noted the fears among liberal Democrats that carbon pricing might allow companies to pay to pollute and jeopardize the health of poor and minority populations.
Biden-Harris Administration by David R. Hill |March 2, 2021
As is the case anytime there is a change of party in the White House, the incoming Biden administration is examining the Trump administration’s actions and moving to reverse or withdraw a number of them. In his first month in office, President Biden has issued executive orders reversing many Trump administration policies and initiating reviews of others.
David R. Hill is an adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. He is an attorney with experience in the legal, regulatory, and environmental issues affecting the energy industry.