{"id":1960099,"date":"2023-06-29T10:08:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T14:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-ordering-agencies-to-track-emissions-biden-admin-doesnt-know-how-much-fossil-fuel-its-un-climate-trips-burned\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T14:10:58","slug":"after-ordering-agencies-to-track-emissions-biden-admin-doesnt-know-how-much-fossil-fuel-its-un-climate-trips-burned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-ordering-agencies-to-track-emissions-biden-admin-doesnt-know-how-much-fossil-fuel-its-un-climate-trips-burned\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin unaware of fossil fuel emissions from UN climate trips despite ordering agencies to track them."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafter-ordering-agencies-to-track-emissions-biden-admin-doesnt-know-how-much-fossil-fuel-its-un-climate-trips-burned%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1960099&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst Presents Monthly Squeal Award to Biden Administration<\/h2>\n<p>Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst presented her monthly squeal award \u2014 which recognizes a wasteful Washington expense \u2014 to the Biden administration and specifically White House Climate Envoy John Kerry for officials\u2019 fossil-fueled overseas trips to lecture the world on climate.<\/p>\n<p>After world leaders convened in Egypt for the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27), Ernst, along with Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton and West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, requested the Government Accountability Office (GAO) track the amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">greenhouse gas emissions<\/a> from the Biden administration\u2019s travel to the conference.<\/p>\n<p>The GAO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/gao-23-105863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> was inconclusive because the \u201cState Department did not track greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. delegation travel to meetings 26 and 27 of the United Nations Conference of the Parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cState officials told us that they did not have a systematic way to calculate greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. delegation travel to COP26, COP27, or any past meetings of the Conference of the Parties,\u201d the GAO reported.<\/p>\n<p>The GAO did find, however, that 191 executive branch staff attended the COP26 in Scotland, and 259 attended the COP27 from across more than a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-signs-executive-order-to-boost-competition-in-economy\/\" title=\"Biden signs executive order to boost competition in economy\">dozen federal agencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite President Joe Biden signing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/12\/08\/executive-order-on-catalyzing-clean-energy-industries-and-jobs-through-federal-sustainability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executive order<\/a> instructing agencies to track emissions from travel, the State Department has yet to comply. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-ordering-agencies-to-track-emissions-biden-admin-doesnt-know-how-much-fossil-fuel-its-un-climate-trips-burned\/\" title=\"Biden Admin unaware of fossil fuel emissions from UN climate trips despite ordering agencies to track them.\">federal agencies skirt presidential directives<\/a>, the Biden administration is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/secs-climate-disclosure-rule-isnt-here-but-it-may-as-well-be-many-businesses-say-854789bd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advancing regulations<\/a> to mandate businesses track and report emissions data.<\/p>\n<p>Within the last year, Kerry led overseas trips on climate to Egypt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/special-presidential-envoy-for-climate-kerrys-travel-to-the-uae-and-switzerland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Switzerland<\/a>, the United Arab Emirates, and <a href=\"https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:YaLWO3weh_wJ:https:\/\/www.state.gov\/special-presidential-envoy-for-climate-kerrys-travel-to-japan\/&#038;cd=19&#038;hl=en&#038;ct=clnk&#038;gl=us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Japan<\/a>. At the end of the global conference in Egypt, the White House launched the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/ceq\/news-updates\/2022\/11\/17\/ceq-launches-global-net-zero-government-initiative-announces-18-countries-joining-u-s-to-slash-emissions-from-government-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Net-Zero Government Initiative<\/a>\u201d that pledged a government commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gas is always greener when you\u2019re burning fossil fuels in the name of saving the planet,\u201d Ernst said in a press release. \u201cWhile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/go-straight-to-hell-chip-roy-blisters-dems-gop-who-voted-to-draft-women-into-military\/\" title=\"\u2018Go Straight To Hell\u2019: Chip Roy Blisters Dems, GOP Who Voted To Draft Women Into Military\">giving lip service<\/a> to greenies, Biden bureaucrats are blatantly emitting the greenhouse gases they demonize. The double standard is clear, and Americans have had enough of this hot air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ernst paired this month\u2019s squeal award with a pledge to reintroduce the Executive Branch Emissions Transparency Act, which Cotton and Capito <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/761\/cosponsors?s=1&#038;r=59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">co-sponsored<\/a> in the last Congress. The bill would require presidential administrations to track their own use of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden and his officials say they are addressing an \u2018existential\u2019 crisis by participating in climate conferences, all while traveling on private jets to and from the conferences,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cThe Biden administration should instead focus its efforts on American energy production \u2014 or at the very least, let American taxpayers know about the private travel they are paying for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Western elites lecture the globe on fossil fuels, a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearenergy.org\/articles\/2023\/06\/20\/eprinc_report_shows_that_iea_net_zero_roadmap_is_a_green_mirage_941962.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> sponsored by the RealClear Foundation shows the International Energy Agency\u2019s (IEA) \u201cnet zero roadmap is a green mirage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc., the IEA\u2019s plans to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 \u201cwill dramatically increase energy costs, devastate Western economies, and increase human suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst awarded her monthly squeal prize to the Biden administration, targeting John Kerry for wasteful fossil-fueled trips abroad to lecture on climate change. This came after the 27th UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt, where world leaders gathered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1960100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}