Jeff Reynolds
Jeff Reynolds is senior editor for Restoration News, specializing in energy and science policy, as well as dark money.
As Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continue to root out waste, fraud, and abuse, radical leftists have decided to express their rage over efficient government by committing organized domestic terrorism against Musk’s car company. After all, President Donald Trump has chosen to delete redundant federal programs that waste hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, so naturally Tesla has suddenly become an enemy of the environment.
Yeah, that tracks.
This week has seen increasing levels of insanity from the radicals who have sided with bloated, oppressive central government. Somehow, this makes them – in their own minds, at least – more dedicated to the environment than the one company on the planet that’s had success at making electric vehicles competitive in the market.
So they’ve decided to attack. No mere vandalism – they’ve shot up dealerships, set cars on fire, and, as you’ll read, done unspeakable things to Teslas across the country. All in the name of the environment. These coordinated attacks are clearly not organic, nor should America allow them to be normalized.
On top of that, we have other insane stories, like the continued madness of geoengineering, Bill Gates calling it quits on saving the planet, activists protesting a baseball stadium advertisement, and the Biden administration burying studies that contradicted their preferred narrative on LNG. Also, a story about Peruvian farmers suing European energy companies over the climate.
Take heart, though, as we have significant good news this week! Greenpeace North America will likely have to file bankruptcy after they lost a huge case in court, and lots of good news about the coal industry.
Let’s get to it.
Tesla Protests Get Mostly Peaceful
There have been dozens of acts of vandalism against Tesla vehicles and dealerships over the past two weeks across America, calling into question whether they’re truly organic – and whether they qualify as acts of domestic terrorism. They certainly can’t be considered coherent, as many have been undertaken in the name of the environment:
Attorney General Pam Bondi looks to bring down the hammer.
There should be special charges for the guy caught on camera smearing his own waste on a Cybertruck.
We shouldn’t promote the nutjobs who have committed these acts – and yet, Americans need to know what’s going on and the justice required to tamp down this insane behavior.
Of course, the mainstream media refuses to call these violent acts terrorism, referring to them instead as “pushback” faced by Elon Musk. As if they count as legitimate protests. A legitimately free press would demand investigations into who has orchestrated and paid for these attacks.
Gates Lays Off Enviro Staff
The cofounder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has spent considerable time in his retirement – and a considerable portion of his wealth – lecturing the world on climate change, buying up farmland, engineering vaccines, investing in global depopulation efforts, and attempting to boost “green” energy. Now, he’s suddenly backing off:
The recent downsizing of Bill Gates’ climate nonprofit, Breakthrough Energy, marks a turning point in this narrative. Once a powerhouse in climate policy lobbying, Breakthrough Energy has shuttered its policy and advocacy offices, laying off dozens of employees across the US and Europe.
This move signals a broader trend among the ultra-wealthy: a retreat from climate activism as economic and political winds shift.
Perhaps he can’t engage in this kind of advocacy anymore now that President Trump has shut down USAID and other slush funds sending taxpayer money to NGOs? One can dream.
Protesting Big Oil – As American Californian As Baseball or Apple Pie
The California state senate Majority Leader, Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach), has sent a letter to the Los Angeles Dodgers to remove the “76” logo from Dodger Stadium, in her effort to fight climate change. As Outkick the Coverage reported:
She claims the team’s association with oil and gas companies poses a hazard for fans – a vague assertion tied to her broader climate concerns rather than specific evidence of danger from the sign itself.
Gonzalez, an ardent climate change activist, supports California’s lawsuit against oil companies, including Phillips 66. She is taking an aggressive approach to eliminating fossil fuels in favor of her ambitious green agenda.
Now, Senator Gonzalez is pressuring the Dodgers to follow in her footsteps.
As the sports outlet noted, the ad has adorned the stadium since 1962, and has become a cultural icon similar to the Citgo sign outside Fenway Park in Boston. Undaunted, Gonzalez referred to its potential removal as the equivalent of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947.
Biden Admin Caught Cooking the Books Again
Another not-so-shocking revelation of the Biden administration lying to the American public to advance an extremist agenda. This time, it centers around the shutdown of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. According to the Daily Caller:
The Biden administration deliberately buried a final draft version of a study that would have undermined its January 2024 decision to pause approvals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects, according to four Department of Energy (DOE) sources.
Former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and former President Joe Biden announced the LNG freeze in January 2024, stating that it would remain in place until the DOE could conduct a fresh study of the climate and economic impacts of LNG export growth. The Biden DOE finalized a draft of the study in 2023 and subsequently buried it because the initial version’s findings would have contradicted the administration’s rationale for the LNG freeze ...
Odd how these stories keep emerging that the Biden administration deliberately misled the American public on issues of direct impact on the economy. Almost as if it were a pattern.
Can Peruvian Farmers Sue Big Oil?
In an openly partisan report this week, the Associated Press Climate and Environment team reported on a “crucial climate case” in Germany in which a Peruvian farmer hopes to hold a European energy company liable for a melting glacier in South America:
A crucial climate case is being heard in Germany this week, almost a decade after Peruvian farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya first filed a lawsuit against German energy giant RWE for its part in heating up the planet and melting important glaciers in his hometown of Huaraz, Peru.
As a result of climate change and glacial melt, Huaraz’s Lake Palcacocha has swelled to dangerous levels, threatening the community with the risk of catastrophic flooding.
But can an individual company – whose greenhouse emissions count for a fraction of overall climate change – successfully be held accountable for its part in heating the planet?
Note the propagandist’s tools at play here: The AP admits into evidence facts not proven, e.g., “as a result of climate change,” an individual company “whose greenhouse emissions count” for “its part in heating the planet.” Let’s hope the AP environmental reporters have no effect on jury selection for this trial. They should be penalized for using that many logical fallacies in such a short introduction.
And now for this week’s Good News segment.
Greenpeace Hit With Record Jury Penalty
The company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), Energy Transfer, sued Greenpeace for organizing massive protests in 2016 and 2017 that relied on false claims and libel to whip up the crazies to the point it added around $350 million to the cost of building the pipeline. Athena Thorne of PJ Media reports:
In the end, these actions delayed the project by five months and added approximately $350 million to the cost, Energy Transfer claimed in a lawsuit it launched in 2019.
Energy Transfer named three Greenpeace entities – Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace International (based in the Netherlands), and Greenpeace Fund – as the organizers and funders of this sabotage. And on Wednesday, a North Dakota jury found that the infamous non-profit must pay the price for its actions.
The nine-person and two-alternate jury deliberated for two and a half days before arriving at its unanimous verdict.
Greenpeace’s North American operations now face bankruptcy and an unclear future at best, after a jury ordered it to pay $677 million in damages. Pending appeals, of course.
Coal Resurgence in Trump Administration
This week saw several developments in a centuries-old industry, as the Trump administration announced that it would once again begin building coal power plants.
Meanwhile, coal got another shot in the arm as studies have begun to emerge about the massive potential for recovering rare earth minerals from coal ash, a waste product, buried in landfills.
Raise your hand if you had the coal industry saving our power grid and our reliance on rare earth minerals on your 2025 bingo card.
This article originally appeared at Restoration News and was republished by CFACT.
