Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:25:36 +0000
Carbon capture and sequestration may or may not work but the US taxpayers will foot the bill either way, starting in Texas.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:52:03 +0000
The business of decarbonization is too important to wait, say experts. But merely having climate commitments that focus on 2050 isn’t sufficient, as such pledges may lull business leaders into thinking there is still some time left until they need to act. It’s not only possible but prudent for organizations … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:17:57 +0000
For the first time, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 included place-based federal tax incentives for projects located in “Energy Communities,” which might alter the economic equation of where projects should be located. Storage projects may be eligible for a 10-point increase in the Investment Tax Credit (e.g., from 30% … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:57:49 +0000
Two large solar power plants have been approved this week, along with a new plan for more HVDC transmission lines.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 04:58:00 +0000
As Joe Biden’s time leading the United States approaches an end, various government agencies have been sprinting to get things done before they are at risk of being dropped and forgotten. Rather than try to cover each of these separately, let’s quickly roll through some of the announcements, and you … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:21:56 +0000
The world has gone cuckoo for artificial intelligence. AI is virtually all you hear in the news these days. NVIDIA is worth a gazillion dollars because it manufactures the specialized computer chips that data centers need to make AI possible. Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Google are all rushing headlong … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:54:30 +0000
This morning I had an excellent conversation with a lawyer with a maritime environmental non-governmental organization, Stephanie Hewson at the West Coast Environmental Law Association. She is preparing to testify to one of the highest legislative bodies in the country that they are based in, Canada’s Senate, regarding concerns about … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Derek Markham| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:50:19 +0000
Incentive programs meant to catalyze the adoption of greener, cleaner, low carbon technologies, such as we’ve seen with solar and EVs, and most recently e-bikes, can be effective if done right, but when a cookie-cutter one-size-fits-all approach is used, they can end up being not very cost-effective or efficient in … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:55:16 +0000
The contract to supply electric vehicles to the USPS is under attack by the Trump transition team that wants more polluting vehicles.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:45:14 +0000
If you read One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest years ago, you may recall how Chief Bromden’s psychosis originated with the loss of his people’s fishing habitat due to the construction of a monstrous dam. Ken Kesey brought the loss of annual fish runs of the Columbia River, estimated at … [continued]
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