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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Zeroes In On American Energy In Congressional Speech

DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Zeroes In On American Energy In Congressional Speech

'The whole world has changed since Jan. 20'

05.03.2025 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Could Upend Every Facet Of The Obama-Biden Climate Agenda In One Fell Swoop

DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Could Upend Every Facet Of The Obama-Biden Climate Agenda In One Fell Swoop

'One big way'

01.03.2025 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: Can Trump Revive The Keystone Pipeline?

DAVID BLACKMON: Can Trump Revive The Keystone Pipeline?

'No one should give up hope yet'

27.02.2025 10

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DAVID BLACKMON: Holding No Levers Of Power, Democrats Focus On Lawfare To Slow Trump Agenda

'Democrats and their supporting activist NGOs also fought Trump’s first term agenda'

01.02.2025 5

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump’s ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Agenda Will Likely Take On An Entirely New Shape

'Build, baby, build'

29.01.2025 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Dresses Down The Davos Globalists

It was an opening salvo that flew directly in the face of remarks made earlier in the week by the likes of European Commission leader Ursula Von Der...

25.01.2025 8

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Moves To Reverse Biden’s Green New Deal Agenda — With A Special Focus On Wind

'But we should also note that Trump goes even further'

22.01.2025 1

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DAVID BLACKMON: Key Trump Cabinet Nominees Face A Daunting Energy Policy Mess

An enormous mess to clean up

18.01.2025 5

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Could Put An End To Biden’s Offshore Wind Vanity Projects

'There is another principle at stake here that Trump should address'

15.01.2025 9

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DAVID BLACKMON: ESG Is Collapsing And Net Zero Is Going With It

'Just a few years ago, ESG was all the rage in the banking and investing community'

11.01.2025 8

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Calls Biden’s Drilling Ban ‘Worst Abuse Of Power I’ve Ever Seen’

The Biden White House said early Monday that outgoing President Joe Biden has ordered huge swaths of U.S. federal waters off-limits to future...

06.01.2025 9

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DAVID BLACKMON: 10 Things Trump Can Do In The First 100 Days For Energy Independence

President-elect Donald Trump has a big job ahead of him in restoring common sense and sanity to federal energy policy when he takes office on...

01.01.2025 10

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Should Consider Adding Another Globalist Org To Funding Chopping Block

Among the many promises and commitments that he has made during his ongoing transition period, President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to pull...

28.12.2024 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: Granholm’s LNG Farce Puts A Proper Coda On Biden’s Energy Policy

As Congress struggled with yet another chaotic episode of negotiations over another catastrophic continuing resolution, all I could think was how...

21.12.2024 10

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DAVID BLACKMON: Liberals Cook Up Ways To Make Climate Alarmism Sound A Little Less … Crazy

Recognizing that voters are increasingly skeptical of extreme climate regulations, dark money groups have stepped in with millions of dollars to...

18.12.2024 5

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DAVID BLACKMON: Norway Provides An Object Lesson On How Not To Make Energy Policy

“It’s an absolutely sh*t situation.” That is the assessment of Norway’s energy minister, Terje Aasland, about his country’s electricity...

14.12.2024 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: Job One For Doug Burgum

Anticipating a potential Donald Trump win over first President Joe Biden and then Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race, officials...

11.12.2024 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: Big Tech’s Sudden Rush Into Nuclear Is A Win-Win For America

The U.S. power-generation sector has been hit in recent weeks with story after story about Big Tech firms entering into deals with power providers...

10.12.2024 5

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DAVID BLACKMON: Joe Biden’s Crony Capitalism Is About To Meet Its Demise

Seldom have a few days of energy-related news provided a clearer illustration of the stark contrasts between the crony-capitalism-based energy...

04.12.2024 7

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DAVID BLACKMON: ‘Landman’ Airs A Rare And Stirring Defense Of The US Oil-And-Gas Industry

Oil companies have always presented easy targets for demonization by the news and entertainment industries. Their operations are highly visible —...

30.11.2024 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: A Trump Effort To Revive Keystone XL Would Likely Be Purely Symbolic

Of all the destructive actions President Joe Biden took related to energy policy during his four years in office, his stroke-of-a-pen decision on...

27.11.2024 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: Wright Is Right Nominee For Secretary Of Energy

Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy, has long been known as one of the oil and gas industry’s brightest minds and most innovative thinkers. It...

20.11.2024 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Zeldin And Burgum Take On Daunting Roles In Second Trump Term

President-elect Donald Trump has set Washington, D.C. afire over the past week with a series of controversial picks for cabinet-level offices and...

16.11.2024 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump’s Victory Is A Massive Wake Up Call For Climate-Obsessed Global Elites

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the socialist brute who presides over the country with the highest industrial power prices in the world, urged...

13.11.2024 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: Biden’s Signature Climate ‘Boondoggle’ Might Be On Chopping Block After Trump Win

In the wake of the election of President Donald Trump to serve a second term in office, along with presumptive Republican majorities in both houses...

09.11.2024 6

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DAVID BLACKMON: Voters Concerned About Energy Security Have A Choice To Make

Voters concerned about national security matters must also be concerned about America’s energy security. Modern society can no longer function...

04.11.2024 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Biden-Harris Admin’s EV Coercion Campaign Hasn’t Really Gone All That Well

The future direction of federal energy policy related to the transportation sector is a key question that will be determined in one way or another...

30.10.2024 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Here’s Who Would Guide Energy Policy In A Harris-Walz Administration

I almost hate to do it again, since I have already written twice previously about Camila Thorndike, the recently hired “climate engagement...

26.10.2024 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: The Hard Life Of Being A Harris Climate Engagement Director

I wrote a piece over the weekend commenting on all the energy-related confusion coming from Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, especially as...

23.10.2024 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: Which Kamala Harris Should Voters Believe?

With the presidential race winding down to its final weeks, voters still have no real way of knowing how a Kamala Harris presidency would impact...

19.10.2024 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: The Biden-Harris Energy Transition Will Just Have To Wait

Google has made big news in the energy space over the past week, and all of it conflicts with the Harris-Biden goals of a glorious future powered...

16.10.2024 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: Dire Energy Costs Of A Kamala Harris Presidency

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, created a real problem for herself this week during an appearance on The View....

12.10.2024 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Biden-Harris Admin’s Rationale Behind LNG Pause Gets Shakier By The Day

It almost seems too predictable to even mention at this point, but it turns out the rationale used by the Biden-Harris White House and Energy...

09.10.2024 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: Vance-Walz Debate Did Nothing To Inform Voters On Energy Issues

As was the case with the September 10 debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, Tuesday’s debate between the...

05.10.2024 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: Bureaucrats Worry Democracy Will Get In The Way Of Their Climate Agenda

I have frequently written over the last several years that the agenda of the climate-alarm lobby in the western world is not consistent with the...

02.10.2024 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: The Silly Peak Oil Debate Rages On

Analysts and professionals in the global energy space have long debated the prospects for reaching peak demand for crude oil. It is an issue that...

28.09.2024 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Will AI Displace Climate Change As The Next Globalist Bogeyman?

On Monday, before most people even knew its annual General Assembly was again invading New York City, the United Nations issued a press release...

25.09.2024 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: Europe’s EV Market Collapse Provides A Lesson For UAW Leadership

It is an ill-kept secret of American politics that most of the big labor unions in the country have long been client organizations of the...

21.09.2024 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: There’s A Reason Why Oil Giants Are Still Investing In Wind And Solar

British oil giant BP announced Monday that it is selling the business unit that manages its suite of U.S. onshore wind-power operations as part of...

18.09.2024 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: Harris Doesn’t Want To Talk About EVs – It’s Easy To Understand Why

A video accompanying a headline Wall Street Journal piece detailing the struggles of Ford Motor Company and its CEO, Jim Farley, shows a woman...

15.09.2024 10

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DAVID BLACKMON: A Disturbing Trend Is Emerging In America’s Federal Courts

Amid flagging congressional efforts to streamline federal permitting processes for energy projects, a disturbing trend is now developing as federal...

04.09.2024 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: Kamala Harris’ Energy Answers To Dana Bash Insult Everyone’s Intelligence

In her lone interview since being gifted the Democratic Party’s nomination from President Joe Biden almost six weeks ago, Vice President Kamala...

31.08.2024 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Fossil Fuels Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon

Every year, ExxonMobil publishes its Global Outlook, detailing the company’s view of what the future is likely to hold for oil, natural gas and...

28.08.2024 2

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Two Years In, the Inflation Reduction Act Is Exactly What Its Critics Said It Would Become

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—In a recent interview, World Energy Council Secretary General Angela Wilkinson told me that one of the main...

21.08.2024 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: Two Years On, The IRA Is Exactly What Its Critics Said It Would Become

In a recent interview, World Energy Council Secretary General Angela Wilkinson told me that one of the main impediments to the energy transition...

19.08.2024 1

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DAVID BLACKMON: Continuing EV Bloodbath Leaves Harris With A Lot To Answer For

Once the ongoing effort by the legacy media to reinvent presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris as a dynamic leader and competent campaigner...

01.08.2024 10

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DAVID BLACKMON: Collapse Of Giant Wind Turbine Blade Product Of Biden Admin Green Agenda

Little noted amid the media reporting about the collapse of a gigantic wind blade at the Vineyard Wind 1 project off the coast of Massachusetts...

27.07.2024 1

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DAVID BLACKMON: The Flood Of Energy Absurdities Never Slows

I often write about absurdities in the energy space, the kinds of stories in which nothing seems to make sense and which result in the wasting of...

17.07.2024 2

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