NY Bans Oil, NatGas, Propane Furnaces Beginning 2025 – Move Now!
You may want to consider moving out of New York State if you still live here. The state has collectively lost its mind. NY political leaders are so consumed with hatred of fossil fuels they are about to force its residents to pay an average of $28,000 to convert their homes away from heating and cooking with natural gas, propane, and fuel oil (see NYers Will Pay Average $28K to Retrofit Homes for All-Electric). We’ve been raising the alarm, warning New Yorkers since 2019, when the state passed a draconian “energy” law, that residents will one day have to stop using fossil energy to heat and cook (see New York Pulls the Trigger, Commits Energy Suicide with New Law). That day has arrived. Yesterday a state commission approved plans to phase out fossil fuel-burning furnaces beginning as soon as 2025 as part of NY’s draconian (dystopian) program to address mythical “climate change.”
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Earlier this week, MDN told you that the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced a consent order assessing a $600,000 fine against a trucking company that hauled drill cuttings from West Virginia to PA and dumped them (without a permit) at several sites owned by the trucking company (see 
Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA), a trade group representing some of the biggest consumers of energy in the U.S. (i.e., manufacturers), wrote a letter to the governors of 12 states along the Eastern Seaboard asking those governors to prioritize natural gas pipelines in their respective states (full copy of the letter below). Recipients included Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and (falling on deaf ears) New York and New Jersey. According to the letter, manufacturing companies along the East Coast face growing natural gas scarcity due to the lack of interstate natural gas pipeline capacity.
Two weeks ago, the Bidenistas announced their latest “we hate fossil fuels” initiative–forcing all new or newly renovated federal buildings to use electricity for heat beginning in 2025. Here’s one of the dumbest statements ever uttered by a sitting Secretary of Energy: “Ridding pollution from our buildings and adopting clean electricity are some of the most cost-effective and future-oriented solutions we have to combat climate change.” Yeah, Jennifer Granholm called heating with natural gas and fuel oil “pollution.” That’s how nutty and wacky the left has become. The Bidenistas say this move to all-electric will save taxpayers millions of dollars. It will do the complete opposite.
We spotted an op-ed appearing on The Hill website running under the title, “Natural gas and permitting reform are critical to a clean energy future.” The article was written by Chad Zamarin, board chairman for the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) and senior vice president of corporate strategic development for pipeline giant Williams. In the op-ed, Zamarin defends natural gas against false claims that methane and pipelines are “obsolete and environmentally detrimental.” He states flatly that natural gas “must be part of a low-carbon energy future.”
Last week U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, from West Virginia, made another attempt to “shock” his permitting reform bill, a bill that would allow the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to finish up more quickly, into life (see 
A new paper from Net Zero Watch (copy below) illustrates how climate alarmists are waging psychological warfare on the public. The alarmists are being funded by American billionaires and aided by psychologists who are advising alarmist groups that fear tactics are a useful tool to use on people. Psychologists using fear to manipulate the public is a gross breach of ethics–they should be decertified and prosecuted.
NATIONAL: Energy and Commerce agenda: More support for fossil fuels; ESGing your retirement in half; INTERNATIONAL: EU energy ministers decide on natural gas price caps.