Daily on Energy: SCOTUS closes the open ends of WOTUS

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"IEA REPORT HIGHLIGHTS RENEWABLE ENERGY GROWTH:"
Positive
32% Conservative
"(Solar power, for its part, is expected to see new investments of more than $1 billion per day this year, according to the report.)"
Positive
32% Conservative
"The Bureau of Land Management held its first onshore oil and gas lease sale in nearly a year this morning, motivated by the Inflation Reduction Act's new leasing contingencies coecting traditional fossil fuel and renewable energy on federal lands."
Positive
16% Conservative
"Justice Samuel Alito's opinion for the court in Sackett v. EPA provided that waters that can be regulated under WOTUS are limited to:Geographical features that are described in ordinary parlance as streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes, and; Adjacent wetlands that are 'indistinguishable' from those bodies of water due to a continuous surface coectionLeft off this list: Waters that have a significant nexus to interstate or traditional navigable waters, which the Biden administration employed in drafting its WOTUS rule."
Positive
2% Conservative
"That's due to a combination of factors, including lower costs for renewable energy production, including for solar and wind technologies."
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-2% Liberal
"Many governments also now view clean energy sources -- renewables, electric cars, nuclear power -- as a lasting solution to their energy security problem, in addition to climate change, Birol said in a separate interview with CNBC's Arabile Gumede."
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-12% Liberal
"Why that's no good: Finding a significant nexus continues to require consideration of a list of open-ended factors, it added, continuing, By the EPA's own admission, nearly all waters and wetlands are potentially susceptible to regulation under this test, putting a staggering array of landowners at risk of criminal prosecution for such mundane activities as moving dirt."
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-30% Liberal
"The House failed yesterday to override Biden's veto of the bipartisan Congressional Review Act resolution that sought to cancel his moratorium on tariffs on Asian solar imports."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"Secretary Jeifer Granholm marked completion yesterday of a $15 million upgrade to the department's Idaho Biomass Feedstock National User Facility by aouncing a new Department of Energy initiative to generate 100 and 400 million tons of clean fuels and chemicals per year by 2035 and 2050."
Positive
16% Conservative
"H.R. 1640, or the Save Our Gas Stoves Act, proposed by Republican Rep. Debbie Lesko of Arizona was approved 31-18, and members voted 29-19 to pass H.R. 1615, or the Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act, proposed by Rep. Kelly Armstrong, a North Dakota Republican."
Positive
10% Conservative
"H.R. 1640, or the Save Our Gas Stoves Act, proposed by Republican Rep. Debbie Lesko of Arizona was approved 31-18, and members voted 29-19 to pass H.R. 1615, or the Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act, proposed by Rep. Kelly Armstrong, a North Dakota Republican."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Justice Samuel Alito's opinion for the court in Sackett v. EPA provided that waters that can be regulated under WOTUS are limited to:Geographical features that are described in ordinary parlance as streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes, and; Adjacent wetlands that are 'indistinguishable' from those bodies of water due to a continuous surface coectionLeft off this list: Waters that have a significant nexus to interstate or traditional navigable waters, which the Biden administration employed in drafting its WOTUS rule."
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0% Conservative
"Justice Samuel Alito's opinion for the court in Sackett v. EPA provided that waters that can be regulated under WOTUS are limited to:Geographical features that are described in ordinary parlance as streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes, and; Adjacent wetlands that are 'indistinguishable' from those bodies of water due to a continuous surface coectionLeft off this list: Waters that have a significant nexus to interstate or traditional navigable waters, which the Biden administration employed in drafting its WOTUS rule."
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0% Conservative
"Environment and Public Works Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito said the ruling is a loud and clear warning shot to the Biden administration about its attempts to overregulate the lives of millions of Americans.Welcome to Daily on Energy, written by Washington Examiner Energy and Environment Writers Jeremy Beaman (@jeremywbeaman) and Breae Deppisch (@breae_dep)."
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0% Conservative
"Environment and Public Works Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito said the ruling is a loud and clear warning shot to the Biden administration about its attempts to overregulate the lives of millions of Americans.Welcome to Daily on Energy, written by Washington Examiner Energy and Environment Writers Jeremy Beaman (@jeremywbeaman) and Breae Deppisch (@breae_dep)."
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0% Conservative
"Federal district judges in Texas and North Dakota have issued preliminary injunctions blocking the Biden WOTUS rule in 26 states."
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0% Conservative
"The court was not taking up a direct challenge to the Biden administration's WOTUS rule, but it came up:Under the agencies' current rule, traditional navigable waters, interstate waters, and the territorial seas, as well as their tributaries and adjacent wetlands, are waters of the United States..."
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-4% Liberal
"Biden's moratorium expires next summer, after which the road would be clear for the Commerce Department to implement antidumping/countervailing duties on imports that it found to be circumventing existing duties on Chinese products."
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-6% Liberal
"Members voted 21 to 21 to approve H.R. 1042, or the Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act, introduced by the panel's chairwoman, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, as well as on two bills advancing gas stove protections."
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-10% Liberal
"The exclusion of the significant nexus test in the high court's scope gives those lower courts the runway to rule against the Biden regulation when it comes time to decide on merits."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Biden continues to turn its back on its legal duty to account for the link between fossil fuel development and the climate crisis, said Jeremy Nichols, director of the Climate and Energy Program for WildEarth Guardians."
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-18% Liberal
"House Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Subcommittee Chairman Jeff Duncan of South Carolina praised the passage of the stove bills yesterday, saying in a statement: that Americans should be free to choose what cooking product they use in their homes[.]GUAM SEES ONE OF WORST TYPHOONS IN DECADES: Typhoon Mawar tore into Guam yesterday as a Category 4 storm, tearing down roofs, trees, and triggering widespread power outages in what is already considered to be one of the worst storms to hit the Pacific U.S. territory in decades."
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-20% Liberal
"Leasing has been irregular during President Joe Biden's tenure, frustrating fossil fuel interests and many Republicans."
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-24% Liberal
"HOUSE FAILS OVERRIDE BID OF BIDEN'S SOLAR VETO:"
Negative
-26% Liberal
"The Supreme Court narrowed the scope of regulatable waters under the Clean Water Act in a ruling that could spell trouble for the Biden administration's Waters of the United States rule, which was preliminarily enjoined in more than two dozen states by several lower courts."
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-28% Liberal
"Administrator Michael Regan said he was disappointed by the decision, saying it erodes longstanding clean water protections."
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-30% Liberal
"The House failed yesterday to override Biden's veto of the bipartisan Congressional Review Act resolution that sought to cancel his moratorium on tariffs on Asian solar imports."
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-32% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% :IEA REPORT HIGHLIGHTS RENEWABLE ENERGY GROWTH:
66% : (Solar power, for its part, is expected to see new investments of more than $1 billion per day this year, according to the report.)
58% : The Bureau of Land Management held its first onshore oil and gas lease sale in nearly a year this morning, motivated by the Inflation Reduction Act's new leasing contingencies connecting traditional fossil fuel and renewable energy on federal lands.
51% : Justice Samuel Alito's opinion for the court in Sackett v. EPA provided that waters that can be regulated under WOTUS are limited to:Geographical features that are described in ordinary parlance as streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes, and; Adjacent wetlands that are 'indistinguishable' from those bodies of water due to a continuous surface connectionLeft off this list: Waters that have a significant nexus to interstate or traditional navigable waters, which the Biden administration employed in drafting its WOTUS rule.
49% : That's due to a combination of factors, including lower costs for renewable energy production, including for solar and wind technologies.
44% : Many governments also now view "clean energy sources -- renewables, electric cars, nuclear power -- as a lasting solution to their energy security problem, in addition to climate change," Birol said in a separate interview with CNBC's Arabile Gumede.
35% : Why that's no good: "Finding a significant nexus continues to require consideration of a list of open-ended factors," it added, continuing, "By the EPA's own admission, nearly all waters and wetlands are potentially susceptible to regulation under this test, putting a staggering array of landowners at risk of criminal prosecution for such mundane activities as moving dirt.
24% : The House failed yesterday to override Biden's veto of the bipartisan Congressional Review Act resolution that sought to cancel his moratorium on tariffs on Asian solar imports.

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