Tim Kaine Calls Toddler-In-Chief Out For His Bullshit "Energy Emergency" Declaration; Senate Resolution Fails, Of Course

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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) called President Donald Trump’s national energy emergency a “sham” Wednesday in floor debate on Senate Joint Resolution 10, a measure that would terminate Trump’s emergency declaration, which the president made via executive order on his first day in office.

“America is producing more energy today than at any point in the history of this nation,” Kaine said. “America is the leader in the world in energy, and for the last few years, we’ve been an energy surplus nation, producing more than we consume.” Trump’s order directs heads of agencies “to facilitate the identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy resources, including, but not limited to, on Federal lands.”

Those resources are defined in the order as “crude oil, natural gas, lease condensates, natural gas liquids, refined petroleum products, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal heat, the kinetic movement of flowing water, and critical minerals,” with no mention of zero carbon electricity generation types. After about three hours of debate, the Senate defeated the joint resolution along party lines, 52-47.

Scientists have long said humans must reduce and ultimately curtail fossil fuel emissions to stop the planet’s dangerous and accelerating warming. But business interests have resisted a rapid transition to clean energy by citing concerns over the abundance and effectiveness of the supply. Kaine spoke with white boards behind him showing an upward trend of energy production since 1950, including oil and gas output, using numbers from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Kaine also called out concern over Trump’s order to circumvent a host of major environmental statutes—the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, National Historic Preservation Act, the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act—while also using eminent domain to take private land to produce more oil-, gas- and coal-fired electricity. “President Trump is calling for a national emergency and bypassing all of these laws, if you want to produce using oil or gas or coal or nuclear or hydro, but not for wind, not for solar, not for clean battery storage,” said Kaine, noting that the Clean Water Act has helped clean up the James River where he lives. “If you’re home grown American, low cost energy is wind, solar and battery storage, you don’t get to bypass environmental laws.”

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27022025/sen-tim-kaine-calls-trumps-national-energy-emergency-a-sham/

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but the failing rate bestowed on the USA by RWers, even a rigged system may not help the GQP stay in power.