Well, there are two important reasons to believe that Biden’s climate policy may be a much bigger deal than the numbers might suggest. But there are also reasons to worry that the policy may fall short, not because the spending is inadequate, but because of one crucial limiting factor: an inadequate power grid. [Great economic numbers here, too.]
from Wapo. To tackle climate, experts say, environmentalists have to embrace big energy projects. Fast. By Shannon Osaka | September 2, 2022 For decades, environmentalists have made their mark by stopping things. Petroleum facilities that…
by Good News Network | Feb 5, 2023 Researchers in Australia, an island nation, have successfully split seawater to produce green hydrogen without pre-treatment. An international chemical engineering team, led by the University of Adelaide’s…
By Damian Carrington | Feb. 14th, 2023 An increase in the pace at which sea levels are rising threatens “a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale”, the UN secretary general has warned….
from NYTimes By Somini Sengupta | Feb. 28, 2023 Climate change may be a global problem. But we are not all the same. Far from it. The wealthier we are, the more climate pollution we produce,…
House Republicans are racing to pass an energy package this spring that would speed up the nation’s permitting process for new natural gas pipelines, wind turbines and other energy infrastructure projects. Democrats now have a…
By Bill Gates
My first job, in high school, was writing software for the entity that controls the power grid in the Northwest … something many people never thought about back then.
That’s no longer the case. Extreme weather events have made people aware of power grids—and how they can fail….
We need to upgrade our grid, build more high-voltage transmission lines [,,,]
Environmentalists rejoiced when New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) endorsed banning fossil fuel appliances in new buildings. But the Democratic leader of the state Assembly is noncommittal, and the measure is also facing resistance from developers, who say it could raise construction costs and hurt property values.
Gas companies have enlisted prominent Democrats to convince liberal voters that the fuel is climate-friendly, documents show. …What she didn’t mention, however, is that the nonprofit group was created by a half-dozen gas companies, with the explicit goal of convincing Democratic voters that gas is a “clean” energy source.
The vast majority of newly-installed and planned energy projects in the U.S. consist of clean energy – solar and wind farms. But clean energy projects are getting stuck in “interconnection queues,” and some clean energy projects have been canceled owing to lengthy delays. Factors like an onerous permitting process could dramatically hamper America’s clean energy rollout and thus its ability to cut pollution fast enough to meet the country’s Paris commitments.
The 7 states relying on the Colorado River (AZ, CA, CO, NV, NM, UT & WY) failed to meet a Jan. 31 federal deadline to voluntarily cut water use, All but CA submitted to a “consensus-based modeling alternative.” CA is said to release its own plan shortly.
Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says.
