Burning Man touts sustainability. Now it’s suing to block clean energy.
Is this NIMBYism? “The organizers of the week-long festival worry a geothermal energy project could damage Nevada desert’s hot springs.”
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In Nevada, a tribe and a toad halt a renewable power plant
Nevada’s Great Basin region found itself at the epicenter of the nation’s most pressing priorities: renewable energy, wildlife conservation and Indigenous rights. … This geothermal power plant could help meet Biden’s ambitious plan to run the U.S. power grid entirely on clean energy by 2035.
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America’s Clean Energy Transition Needs Permitting Reform
While the clean energy transition appears unstoppable, the speed with which it occurs is uncertain. Fully implementing the IRA is key to transitioning fast enough. But fully realizing the IRA’s benefits takes too long. And sometimes, it’s impossible. That is, unless we overcome local permitting barriers.
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Here Is What Is Really Strangling the Energy Transition
In the United States, enough renewable energy projects are backlogged right now to achieve a largely clean electric grid by 2030. But without urgent action, most are unlikely to get built.
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Levin, Casten craft counterproposal to GOP permit plan
Congress may be out this week, but Reps. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) and Sean Casten (D-Ill.) are busy drafting a counterproposal to House Republicans’ plan to speed up the permitting process for energy projects.
Their forthcoming bill, dubbed the Clean Electricity Transmission Acceleration Act, seeks to accelerate …
