Category: Energy News Beat

US Hopes for Ukraine Peace Deal as Putin Seems in No Hurry

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: In my podcast interviews with George McMillan, he has outlined the lack of options open to the Trump team on negotiating with President Putin. “All Putin has to do is nothing” is explained in George’s series found on Energy News Beat’s contributor page here: https://energynewsbeat.co/george-mcmillian/. So, when an article […]

Treasury Yield Curve Re-Inverts with Sag in the Middle, as Government Swats Down 10-Year Yield. But Mortgage Rates Don’t Follow all the Way, Spread Widens

Energy News Beat Short-term Treasury yields of 6 months or less stay put above 4%. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The 10-year Treasury yield has careened lower from 4.77% on January 10 to 4.16% on March 3, and has since then wobbled a little higher to end at 4.26% on Friday, just a hair below the effective […]

The Left’s Legal Tactics To Undermine The Trump Admin Are Growing Tiresome

Energy News Beat Groups getting nationwide injunctions from friendly judges are usurping the role of the president and the will of the voters. ​It’s become a predictable cycle: A Republican administration rolls back burdensome environmental regulations, and an activist group rushes to court and gets a friendly district judge to issue an injunction. [emphasis, links […]

California’s Post-Wildfire Blame Game Hits Absurd New Heights With Latest Bill

Energy News Beat California’s SB 222 lets wildfire victims sue oil companies, worsening insurance and consumer costs while ignoring real issues. ​It’s not exactly unheard of for California’s progressive lawmakers to introduce ideologically driven bills designed to make a point rather than solve any problem, but it’s hard to tolerate this nonsense in the midst ­­of […]

New Lobbying Group Targets GOP to Back Green Policies They Opposed

Energy News Beat A new lobbying group with a seven-figure budget aims to convince the GOP to back carbon tariffs and the 45X tax credit favored by greens and liberals. ​A new lobbying push will look to pitch Biden-era green corporate welfare and carbon tariffs as America First-aligned to the Trump administration and lawmakers, Axios […]

Germany Has Traded Austerity for a Mess

Energy News Beat The German government has finally revised its debt rules—by making them more confusing. ​Analysis By Philippa Sigl-Gloeckner, the managing director of Dezernat Zukunft, a German macrofinance think tank. On Tuesday, March 18, the German parliament ended the country’s economic Sonderweg, or “unique path.” On that day, two-thirds of members voted for a […]

Big Oil Retreats: Europe’s Energy Giants Ditch Green Pledges

Energy News Beat Europe’s oil and gas giants are increasingly scaling back their climate goals as they struggle to deliver on their ambitious clean energy pledges. In 2022, Norway’s state-controlled energy giant Equinor ASA laid its roadmap to achieving net zero emissions. However, in February Equinor scrapped a pledge to devote more than 50% of […]

Trump Moves To Reopen Coal Plants, Citing U.S. Energy Needs And Global Competition

Energy News Beat Trump is moving to reopen coal plants and rolling back regulations, citing U.S. energy needs and competition abroad. ​Donald Trump announced a massive reversal to decades of American environmental policy on Monday as he vowed to ‘immediately’ open coal-fired power plants. [emphasis, links added] The United States has been moving away from […]

Fed’s Operating Losses Declined to $78 Billion in 2024, “Unrealized Losses” Rose to $1.06 Trillion

Energy News Beat QE has produced years of hangover. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The Fed disclosed two types of losses in its audited annual report today: An operating loss of $77.6 billion for the year 2024, substantially less bad than its operating loss in 2023 of $114 billion. And cumulative “unrealized losses” of $1.06 trillion at […]

The Guardian’s Cyclone Alarmism Collides With Real-World Data

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: Because Energy Policies are based upon elected officials having to pay attention to lobbies with money, they have paid attention in the past. We are seeing a trend that the money is drying up, and it could lend itself to more realistic energy policies. The world will broken into […]