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Trump EPA Targets Biden-Era Refrigerant Rules In Affordability Push The Trump administration plans to delay compliance with Biden-era EPA regulations targeting hydrofluorocarbons later today. These regulations apply to refrigerants used in air conditioners, refrigerators, supermarket cooling systems, refrigerated trucks, cold storage, and some industrial applications. Bloomberg reports that the EPA's 2023 Technology Transitions Rule, enacted under the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act, will be rolled back, with an estimated cost savings of more than $2.4 billion. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the Biden-era rules imposed costly and unrealistic requirements that exceeded the...

The US has begun withdrawing from a key base in northeastern Syria as part of a drawdown that could lead to a full withdrawal of US troops from the country. Iraqi and Syrian officials told The Associated Press that the US has been removing forces and equipment from the Qasrak base in Syria’s northeastern Hasaka […]

The Petrogas-Dollar: Symptom Or Strategy? Authored 'No1' via Gold and Geopolitics substack, Three people sent me Richard Medhurst’s petrogas-dollar piece this week. I read it. Twice even. There’s a lot in there that I feel is correct. The chronology of the Levantine Basin deals. Cheney’s 2001 National Energy Policy. The roughly $35 billion of Chevron contracts signed across Israel, Syria, Greece, and Cyprus in the past six months. None of that is in dispute. The piece is, on the facts, broadly accurate. What I think though is that the reading of those facts is faulty. Some history.  In 1944 Bretton...