White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/10/07/white-house-fossil-fuel-concierge/

by fornuis

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  1. > The White House is offering “concierge, white glove service” to oil, coal and other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects, according to an energy official, while simultaneously slowing down or blocking solar and wind projects.
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    > Brittany Kelm, senior policy adviser for President Donald Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in an August podcast how she and the council work to advance fossil fuel projects. Trump established the committee in February with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum as its leader.
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    > “We’re like this little tiger team, concierge, white glove service, essentially,” Kelm said. “We were put together very particularly with the president’s priorities in mind on energy. So keeping coal plants open, establishing critical mineral mining domestically and then that broader supply chain.”

    Making coal great again. She and everyone who voted for Trump should be ashamed of themselves.

    > “This two-tiered approach – going to great lengths to prop up costly fossil fuels like coal plants while blocking the cheapest, cleanest energy sources – won’t lower electricity costs,” Kelly, of the Environmental Defense Fund, said in a statement. “It just saddles families and businesses with higher bills and more asthma-causing pollution.”

    Higher prices and more pollution. Thanks Trump.

  2. Unbelievable how much deep in the pockets oil and gas and coal companies are to this whole administration.

  4. Won’t someone *please* think of the shareholders?

    If the oil companies want me to think better of them they can lobby to have the Epstein files released.

  5. This is beyond stupid. Offering “concierge” like services for 19th century energy in a 21st century economy. It’s almost as comical as people who “resisted” the rise of electric trolleys and motor cars at the dawn of the 20th century and decided to stick with the good old horse and buggy! 😂😂😂

    But, no joke we will soon be the ONLY country left that is using fossil fuels so why would they be spending money on drilling and buying up more of these dying resources? That’s a bad deal for shareholders. If I were shareholders I’d be screaming for them to buying up renewables and spending a crap ton developing that tech so they have a future.

  6. And yet gas prices still have not plunged, they’ve only gone down slightly due to the time of the year it is. Fuck Donald J Trump and his supporters. 

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