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China’s state-run Global Times on Friday harangued America and Europe for using coal power to make up for electricity shortfalls – even though China is building coal plants with wild abandon, digging up and importing mountains of coal to fuel them, and making it very clear that China’s industrial goals will not be compromised in any way to satisfy climate activists.

Greenpeace East Asia published a report on Monday that found China’s most affluent cities and provinces are dramatically increasing their investments in fossil fuel projects, leaving climate activists flummoxed over China’s refusal to deliver on its “energy transition” promises.

Rep. Markwayne Mullin said China and Russia are the primary beneficiaries of the push for “renewable” energy in the Inflation Reduction Act.

Ford Motor Company will lay off approximately 3,000 workers to cut costs while transitioning to electric vehicles, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper praised the government of Hungary under self-proclaimed conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday for greenlighting the construction of a Chinese electric vehicle battery factory and being “rational and pragmatic” in maintaining friendly relations with the Chinese Communist Party.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) responded to concerns that the green provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act are a boost for China because they have the minerals that are needed

German state television has been accused of editing in black clouds of smoke over a nuclear power station in a report on the ongoing energy crisis.

Germany’s green push to move from carbon fuels and nuclear energy to renewables has “failed”, a state Prime Minister has declared.

The “Mirror Line” – a proposed 75-mile-long twin skyscraper metropolis in arid northwest Saudi Arabia – will liberate its proposed 5 million residents “from roads, cars, and emissions,” according to the Saudi Press Agency this week.

As the Biden administration continues to crush energy independence in the United States, Americans are more likely to trust Republicans on energy policy, a new Rasmussen Reports poll found.

General Motors (GM) on Friday revealed the Cadillac Celestiq, an electric car that will reportedly cost approximately $300,000.

“The whole thing is a hoax,” Steve Milloy said of the Biden administration’s “climate agenda.” He added, “It’s all about controlling us.”

Chinese propagandists are highly adept at playing the climate change movement with grandiose promises of “carbon neutrality” at some point in the far future, even as China pumps out gigantic amounts of carbon and pollution today.

J.D. Vance, the Trump-backed Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Ohio, hammered “green energy extremist” Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) for supporting President Joe Biden’s “job killing, anti-energy agenda of driving up gas prices” 100 percent of the time.

Wednesday on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Company,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) castigated the Biden administration for “pandering to a very radical environmentalist base” with its push for green energy.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres claimed on Monday that humanity would be committing “collective suicide” by ignoring climate change – a problem he suggested humanity could only address by breaking its “addiction” to fossil fuels.

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) is leading the push for an energy-independent America through reactors using thorium, a natural resource found in abundance domestically that produces both clean and safe energy.

Former Goldman Sachs banker and World Economic Forum acolyte Rishi Sunak received the backing of Communist China to replace Boris Johnson.

All-day blackouts, skyrocketing gasoline and diesel prices, and an unreliable, nearly absent government are fueling demand for solar power in Nigeria, the local This Day newspaper reported on Wednesday, as businesses seek ways to continue to function without relying on the state-run power grid.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) stated that “we need to have a clean energy future that does not sacrifice our kids’ welfare just for lower gas prices.” And responded to a question on the

The European Parliament on Wednesday voted not to block a proposed rule that would designate gas and nuclear power plants as “climate-friendly.” The rule will take effect unless 20 of the European Union’s (EU) 27 member states band together to stop it.

The goal of Boris Johnson to reduce carbon emissions to “net zero” by 2050 will result in energy rationing, Lord David Frost has warned.

Energy companies in France have told the public that they must “immediately” reduce their energy usage as a result of Europe’s sanction war with Russia.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Steve Rattner, who served as counselor to the Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration, stated that there is a bit of “schizophrenia” in our energy policy where “We’ve been discouraging oil companies from

Load-shedding is artificial scarcity. It is difficult to stop once it starts. We in the U.S. must change course while we still can.

The Texas Department of Transportation plans to ramp up infrastructure for electric vehicles, laying out a five-year plan which includes adding charging stations to major interstates, despite the fact that fewer than one percent of Texans drive an electric vehicle.

A group of scientists called the Malabo Montpellier Panel published a report in May that encouraged Africa to develop a “sustainable bio-economy” through such innovative techniques as making muffins and meatloaf out of flies.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm stated that the Biden administration wants oil and gas companies to increase production now but also to “become diversified energy companies, to be able to produce other means of clean energy.”

China has spent much of the past two decades cornering Chile’s lucrative copper and lithium markets, potentially making it impossible for nearly any other country to establish a formidable “green” economy, as both resources are pivotal in the making of electric vehicles.

Leftist ex-guerrilla member Gustavo Petro, one of the two remaining candidates in next week’s Colombian presidential election, has expressed his desire to put an end to the country’s oil and sugar industries if elected president.

India’s Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) on Wednesday published a timeline for eliminating the use of coal for both industrial and household fuel in the national capital of Delhi and its suburbs. The plan calls for replacing coal with natural gas beginning on October 1.

The Swedish Parliament has voted to ban any new extraction of oil, natural gas or coal as some right-wing parties have slammed the move as impairing Sweden’s ability to have a secure supply of energy. Sweden’s Parliament, the Riksdag, has

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday praised China for “leading the world in renewable energy generation and electric vehicles.”

Tesla boss and green energy advocate Elon Musk’s private jet recently took a nine-minute flight of just 31 miles, a distance easily drivable in one of his own electric vehicles.

The past two years have been a comprehensive disaster for the environmental movement, from the pandemic shattering Green New Deal illusions of what a “sustainable lifestyle” might look like, to polluting powerhouses like China and India burning literal mountains of coal without the slightest concern for the climate change movement.

China, the world’s worst polluter, has been dramatically increasing its coal consumption without much criticism from the climate change movement. Now the Indian government is urging its states to increase coal imports for the next three years to meet rising energy demands and create an emergency stockpile.