Groups ask Biden administration to reconsider nuke decision yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Published: Monday, February 8, 2021
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.). Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), seen here at the Capitol in October, is working to balance his support for the administration s environmental agenda and his state s energy industry. Francis Chung/E&E News
President Biden s green aspirations have put New Mexico Democrats in a bind.
The Land of Enchantment is the biggest single oil producer for the federal government, and the New Mexico boom has infused a poor state with cash.
But in an effort to combat climate change, the Biden administration has opted to freeze new oil and gas leases while it reconsiders the federal minerals program, which accounts for 24% of carbon dioxide emissions in the country.
Ringside Seat: Businesswoman Kim Rael From Just-Say-No Era Pushes Cannabis Bill
SFNM
At a glance, corporate titan Kim Rael seemed like an unlikely convert to the cannabis industry.
Rael, 55, was in high school in Raton when occupants of the White House made recreational drugs their target.
In her own words, Rael was “the classic Nancy Reagan just-say-no person”.
After college at Harvard, Rael went to work for then-U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman. She moved from government to jobs in the financial and technology sectors.
Then she pivoted to what she calls “the wellness industry.”
In plainer terms, Rael is president and CEO of Azuca, a 3-year-old company whose technology made it possible for edible cannabis to go directly into the bloodstream.
POLITICO
Get the Morning Energy newsletter
Email
Sign Up
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Presented by
With help from Ben Lefebvre, Anthony Adragna, Annie Snider and Zack Colman
Editor’s Note: Morning Energy is a free version of POLITICO Pro Energy s morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories. Act on the news with POLITICO Pro.
GOP Senator: No One More Negatively Impacted by Higher Energy Costs Than Middle, Lower-Income Americans By Melanie Arter | January 26, 2021 | 12:57pm EST
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden’s executive order cancelling construction of the Keystone Pipeline and his upcoming executive order to stop new oil and gas leases on federal lands pending a review will hurt middle and low-income Americans the most, Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) told Fox Business’s “Mornings with Maria Bartiromo” on Tuesday.
“There is no group of people more negatively impacted by higher energy costs and lower fewer energy jobs than the middle class and lower income Americans. So it s very ironic that this president that wants to be a jobs creator and wants equality, would start out by attacking an industry that provides lots of opportunity for every American,” said Cramer, wh