The House is expected to pass a sweeping Republican energy package next week. But it will be dead on arrival in the Senate — with one exception: Democratic senators will seek a bipartisan compromise to speed up the permitting process for crucial for clean-energy projects.
What we can do now to address climate change is simple:
1. Electrify everything, and
2. Greenify the grid.
The tech is available, at reasonable costs, NOW. It won’t solve everything, but it’ll get us more than half way. NOW. This one-pager from CCL is a map. Check it out! Hand it out!
Here is the latest report from Capitol Hill on the fast moving legislative moves to move bipartisan Permitting Reform to the finish line: The statewide group of CCLers who are working together on permitting reform…
Earth is likely to cross a critical threshold for global warming within the next decade, and nations will need to make an immediate and drastic shift away from fossil fuels to prevent the planet from overheating dangerously beyond that level, according to a major new report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
I think it wise to copy/paste unusually good resources from Community here so that they can be easily found using our “Search” function (top of right sidebar) or using #Tags. Here are links to slides…
This is an excellent explanation of the technologies (capturing CO2 from flue gasses and “direct air capture”), the policy arguments and the incentives (with the IRA subsidies). Very clear, nicely summarized.
A new U.N. report says it is still possible to hold global warming to relatively safe levels, but doing so will require global cooperation, billions of dollars and big changes.
The new report is a synthesis of six previous landmark reports on climate change issued by the U.N. panel since 2018, each one compiled by hundreds of experts across the globe, approved by 195 countries and based on thousands of scientific studies.
Both technological changes and the incentives unleashed by the IRA, the infrastructure law and other policies have triggered a massive response from the private sector in early, promising solutions.
More than 190 countries have reached a landmark deal for protecting the biodiversity of the world’s oceans, agreeing for the first time on a common framework for establishing new protected areas in international waters. The treaty, whose text was finalized Saturday night by diplomats at the U.N. headquarters after […]
Research has made it clear: Earth’s warming, the result of the burning of fossil fuels, is increasing the risks of bumpy flights. It has to do with ways warming in the atmosphere influences winds at varying altitudes. But that doesn’t necessarily mean flight turbulence is becoming more common, despite publicized incidents in […]
from Bloomberg The biggest impediment to the US achieving a cleaner power grid isn’t climate deniers or fossil-fuel lobbies; it’s a lack of transmission lines. The country badly needs more conduits to cart wind and solar energy…
An explosion in proposed clean energy ventures has overwhelmed the system for connecting new power sources to homes and businesses.
The energy transition poised for takeoff in the United States amid record investment in wind, solar and other low-carbon technologies is facing a serious obstacle: [….]
