Written by rjs, MarketWatch 666This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times).
Lawmakers often dismiss the White House's budget proposals as dead on arrival, but lawmakers are likely to go along with or exceed some of President Biden's requests on energy and the environment.
Follow the science.
It’s a line President Biden used on the 2020 presidential campaign trail and has returned to many times, including in nationally televised remarks after taking office and in March to staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, particularly when addressing the coronavirus pandemic or climate change.
Once elected, Biden announced that he would add the country’s first Cabinet-level science adviser. But grumblings over the mantra began even before he took office. After winning the election on a ‘listen to the scientists’ message, Joe Biden is actually rejecting the global scientific consensus on how to handle the pandemic, writer Branko Marcetic wrote in a December essay for Jacobin, a socialist magazine, arguing in favor of a national lockdown order.
13 May 2021
As states in the southeastern portion of the country are still struggling from the shut down of the largest U.S. pipeline, operators of the Line 5 pipeline refused to shut down despite orders from Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to do so on Wednesday.
“The cyberattack that triggered an unplanned, temporary closure brings to the forefront what consumers could face,” Mike Moeller, Enbridge’s director of operations for the Great Lakes region, said. “Without Line 5, consumers will shoulder the burden of supply disruptions and related price increases, particularly for propane and transportation fuel.”
The Detroit Fox News affiliate reported on the standoff: