January 2021

Growing “Dust Storm”

In 2017, Trump pulled out of the Paris Accord effective November 2020 (one of only nine nations to do so).  He rolled back regulations controlling GHG emissions, particularly methane, and those governing offshore federal leases instituted under Obama a year after Macondo. The industry cheered, as if liberated from an oppressive regime.  The response was …

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Grand Opera

The mental shift of the last two days has been striking.  Both factions are in disbelief.  Is he truly gone?  Are there no tweets?  Can we go so many days without his all-consuming presence? Trump retreats to Mara-Lago and Biden begins his new administration.  We do not quite know what to make of it.  It …

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