“If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.” Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote that in 1953. Most people read it as a philosophical puzzle. For most of the twentieth century, we treated it as one. The question we asked about…
Belva Ann Lockwood, the first woman to be nominated for President in 1884 by the “Equal Rights Party.” If women had the right to vote in 1884, she may well have been our Nation’s first woman president. But Women’s right…
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The Department of Energy wants to excise terms like “climate change,” “green,” “clean/dirty energy,” “emissions,” “carbon/CO2 footprint,” and “decarbonization,” from their internal and external communications.
We have not yet seen how the current administration has synthesized any of the EIS comments we submitted this year, but given their proclivity to pushing the envelope to see what they can get away with, my suspicions are that they will ignore all public input and just see what we’ll do about it.
This is really not the best time to pull long-planned power generation projects offline. It is bound to kick the US back into the “Dark Ages.
It is not a surprise, but rather shocking how the current administration is eviscerating our national regulatory agencies, and doing it in what may appear to lay audiences as “sensible.”
If BOEM grants Impossible Metals a permit to harvest the nodules, it may serve as an invitation to other nations to open the gates to mining operations in the international Clarion-Clipperton Zone, where the ISA is managing the seabed deliberations.