Posted on 12/17/2019 2:05:45 PM PST by jazusamo
House Democrats introduced sweeping climate legislation Tuesday that would halt fossil fuel production on public lands for at least a year as the nation prepares to drastically cut climate-warming pollution from its own land holdings.
The bill from the House Natural Resources Committee requires the Department of the Interior to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions on public lands by 2040.
The Trump administration is handing out drilling and coal mining leases like candy, and no thought is ever given by this administration to the climate change impacts, said Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) a sponsor of the bill as well as chair of the committee.
Our bill is about whats right for the whole country and not just polluting industries, he added.
Grijalva said the yearlong moratorium on fossil fuel production would be meant to give Interior time to assess how to meet the 2040 goal of net-zero emissions, though the bill also sets targets in five year increments that the department must meet.
The department would be barred from issuing new leases until they came into compliance with the targets.
The plan would ratchet up the royalties paid by fossil fuel companies that drill and mine on the nations more than 600 million acres of public land, raising fees from roughly 12 percent to 18 percent. That increased cost of doing business would be used to create a transition fund to help communities that are largely dependent on the fossil fuel industry.
In a nod to the Green New Deal, Grijalva referred to them as fees that big oil and not taxpayers will have to cover that would be used for land reclamation, cleaning up the environment as well as the retraining of workers.
The legislation, which would likely face tough scrutiny in the Republican-led Senate, comes as environmentalists left the latest United Nations climate summit disappointed as countries resisted more ambitious climate measures.
Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) said the bill would help curb the nearly quarter of U.S. emissions that are produced on public lands, specifically calling out methane being leaked by oil and gas operations.
Barring oil and gas drilling on public lands isnt a new idea for the party. A number of Democratic presidential candidates have proposed stopping new oil leases on public lands, though many have been hesitant to end ongoing drilling as well.
The House already voted this year to bar drilling along nearly the entirety of the U.S. coastline. Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are also working on a bill that would push the U.S. to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
This is going nowhere. Nowere at all. Except up nancy’s .....
Raul Grijalva, D-AZ, is a La Raza Marxist who manages to stay in power thanks to one of the most egregiously gerrymandered districts in the United States. Not a single producing oil or gas well can be found on it.
I agree with the methane part. There is enough leakage in DC to destroy the whole world.
Especially since the latter two are made up! :)
I LOVE how all the msm outlets are deluded like hitler was at the end, moving around imaginary armies :)
They write like theres NO Senate.
Or President :)
Those 2 nuisances :)
I call this Hitler in the bunker mode...Ive seen it often in business near the end of failing projects, that fail.
Each of the 31 listed here also supported these efforts
Where Trump carried in these dem congressional districts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3799757/posts
The 2020 GOP congressional campaign beside bringing up their Trump impeachment support. There are certain votes these Dems made which should begin to be brought up NOW. HB9 Which lets males claim theyre female and compete in collegiate sport activities and modifications on HB 1 which let illegals vote.Also use pictures from
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3697570/posts In any handout literature
Don’t forget corruption
BREAKING: Pelosis Son Now Involved In Ukraine Scandal- Democrat Party In Shambles
Rightwingtribune.com ^ | Dean James & Dean Garrison at DC Clothesline October 4, 2019
Posted on 10/04/2019 12:21:05 PM PDT by Red Badger
Hunter Biden move over. Now Nancy Pelosis son may be looking to take center stage with the Ukraine controversy. Paul Pelosi, Jr. spent time in Ukraine in 2017. BOOM: Nancy Pelosis son Paul Pelosi Jr. (who went to Ukraine in 2017) was a board member of Viscoil and executive at its related company NRGLab, which DID ENERGY Business in UKRAINE! And Nancy Pelosi appeared in a promotional video for the company!
Top Romney Adviser Worked With Hunter Biden On Board Of Ukrainian Energy Company
Federalist ^ | September 26, 2019 | Erielle Davidson
Posted on 10/4/2019, 8:14:46 PM by cocoapuff
Federalist—According to Burismas website, Joseph Cofer Black (Romney adviser) was appointed in February of 2017 and continues to serve on its board. The timelines would indicate that Black and Biden worked together at Burisma, and indeed, web archives from late 2017 show Black and Biden listed simultaneously on the board.
Burisma Paid Joe Biden $900,000 for Lobbying Ukrainian MP
Ukraine News Agency ^ | October 9th 2019
Posted on 10/9/2019, 2:22:20 PM by Jacquerie
KYIV. Oct 9 (Interfax-Ukraine) Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 for lobbying activities from Burisma Group, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada member Andriy Derkach said citing investigation materials. Derkach publicized documents which, as he said, “describe the mechanism of getting money by Biden Sr.” at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine’s press center in Kyiv on Wednesday. “This was the transfer of Burisma Group’s funds for lobbying activities, as investigators believe, personally to Joe Biden through a lobbying company. Funds in the amount of $900,000 were transferred to the U.S.-based company Rosemont Seneca Partners, which according to open sources, in particular, the New York Times, is affiliated with Biden. The payment reference was payment for consultative services,” Derkach said. This stuff goes back to 2008;
Really? That’s interesting.
I worked at an investment bank set up a graphics department in India.
I was manager of the graphics dept in NYC
It was a CATASTROPHE and they closed it down after three AGONIZING years.
The managing director who had the bright idea just couldn’t let go of it. Until i guess those higher up said “kill it”
I wish a higher up dem would say “kill the impeachment”
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