Category: greenhouse gas emissions

EU Unveils Plan to Increase Renewables Share in Energy Mix to 40 Percent by 2030

LONDON—The European Union must increase the amount of renewable energy it uses and cut energy consumption by 2030 under proposals the bloc’s executive Commission published on Wednesday to help meet a more ambitious goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As part of a package of climate policies, the Commission proposed an overhaul of EU renewable…


The Net-Zero Shell Game and Joe Biden’s Deceptions

Commentary President Biden’s Earth Day announcement that the United States is to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 2005 levels (equivalent to a 42 percent cut of 2019’s pre-Covid emission levels) within nine years comes with a double deception—one of cause and the other of effect. It aims to force America to…


Biden Administration Pauses Federal Drilling Program in Climate Push

President Joe Biden’s administration has temporarily suspended oil and gas permitting on federal lands and waters in the latest of a series of rapid-fire orders aimed at fighting climate change and tamping down the U.S. fossil fuel industry. The order appeared to be a first step in delivering on newly sworn-in Biden’s campaign pledge to…