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Toyota Promoted Its Hybrid While Funding Climate Deniers

January 21, 2025 admin 0 Comments policy & politics, policy research, Public Citizen, renewable energy standards, toyota, toyota prius

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 01:21:48 +0000

What do you think of what you’re presented with an image of the Toyota Prius hybrid? Like most people, your associations are probably connected with protecting nature and reducing resource depletion. You’re also somebody who recognizes that our climate has been altered by humans through fossil fuel use and their … [continued]

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Musk & Right Wing Trumpsters Are Already At Odds

January 20, 2025 admin 0 Comments elon musk, green economy, policy & politics, Public Citizen, renewable energy standards, tesla

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:48:52 +0000

The Economist says that petty spats among billionaire Elon Musk, other tech tycoons, and the MAGA crowd may be “a sign of a much deeper rift” within the right wing incoming US executive office. The policy team of once-and-future President Donald J. Trump has “disparate, sometimes contradictory goals,” with the … [continued]

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Musk Stirs The Trump 2.0 Inner Circle — And Adds In A Splash Of Cronyism

December 4, 2024 admin China, clean transport, Donald Trump, Electric vehicles, elon musk, HEALTH, policy & politics, renewable energy standards, tesla stock, us environmental protection agency (epa)

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 03:51:11 +0000

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now an integral part of the Trump 2.0 administration. How Musk will fare in the long haul is yet to be determined — Musk’s mercurial nature may be, ultimately, undone by Trump’s furious outbursts and inability to maintain attention or loyalty for extended periods. Perhaps … [continued]

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Climate Mis- and Disinformation Are Shaping Discourse & Opposition To Renewables

November 19, 2024 admin climate change, elon musk, Energy, Fossil Fuels, renewable energy, renewable energy standards, UNFCCC

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 13:07:21 +0000

Do you ever wonder why so many people just don’t get how severe the climate crisis is? One big reason why is because Big Tech companies are fostering climate mis- and dis-information. The blatant hypocrisy is taking place even as our world is on a precipice where a single degree … [continued]

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Want To Know More About How To Design & Deliver Net Zero Policy?

September 16, 2024 admin carbon emissions, climate change, policy & politics, policy research, renewable energy, renewable energy standards

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:59:23 +0000

BloombergNEF’s (BNEF’s) new policy blueprint, the NetZero Pathfinders framework, has been designed to help governments and other stakeholders to devise and implement the best net zero trajectory programs for their markets. The framework helps to make transparent the various policy actions that can build together to achieve the goals of … [continued]

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JD Vance & Climate Issues: Blowin’ With The Political Winds

July 23, 2024 admin carbon emissions, climate change, policy & politics, policy research, renewable energy standards, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 10:57:39 +0000

Remember when flip-flopping on issues was a political death knell? No more. JD Vance, US vice presidential candidate on the Trump/ MAGA ticket, has vacillated about climate pollution many, many times since he entered the public arena. He gave a speech in 2020 at the Ohio State Center for Ethics … [continued]

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US Election 2024: Electrical Generation Decarbonization Report Card

July 19, 2024 admin clean power, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, Coal, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, Fossil Fuels, geothermal energy, green economy, grid, hydroelectric, Joe Biden, natural gas, policy & politics, policy research, renewable energy standards, republican party (united states), Republicans, research, Solar energy, us election 2024, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:45:07 +0000

The reality of the United States’ actual trajectory on electrical generation belies the rhetoric of both Biden and Trump. As noted four years ago, Trump’s administration was against renewables, especially wind energy. The Department of Energy under Perry crafted a report calling for more coal generation, a report which excluded … [continued]

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The Art Of Having Difficult Climate Conversations

July 9, 2024 admin carbon emissions, climate change, policy & politics, renewable energy, renewable energy standards

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:59:52 +0000

Have you talked with someone at a family gathering or social function who simply doesn’t understand the climate crisis the way you do? Sometimes climate conversations seem like speaking another language, one in which both of you hold staunch positions that are untenable to the other. You reach an impasse, … [continued]

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Why Didn’t The Moderators Of The Biden-Trump Debate Dig Down On The Climate Crisis?

July 3, 2024 admin carbon emissions, climate change, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, policy & politics, renewable energy standards

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:19:59 +0000

On Thursday evening, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump “debated” major issues that confront the US. I challenge the term “debate” because it was more of a “debacle” — the standing President couldn’t articulate his own policy issues, and the former president lied more than he represented truths. … [continued]

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Michigan Coal Plant Eyes BECCS Retrofit: Could Become First U.S. Facility with ‘Carbon-Negative’ Power

June 6, 2024 admin babcock & wilcox, beccs, biomass, Business, Carbon Capture, carbon negative, ccus, co2 sequestration, Coal, filer city power plant, Fuel, full coverage, michigan energy law, negative emissions technology, news, renewable energy standards, Renewables, sustainability, sustainable biomass, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:07:25 +0000

CMS Energy’s subsidiary NorthStar Clean Energy has given Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) the green light to start initial work on converting a 73-MW coal-fired power plant in Michigan into a […]

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