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Nine years after VP Biden promised the Caribbean middle-class prosperity via cheap American energy, his White House is pitching a different vision. Analysts from 🇧🇧 and 🇱🇨 told me they're "not impressed." Meanwhile, 🇵🇷 still lacks reliable electricity. https://t.co/9S3FyYVPL9
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Analysts from island nations struggling with expensive fossil fuels and extreme weather say the latest effort to counter China’s modest influence in the region does “not impress.”
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During the pandemic, fresh air and open windows were essential. Now breathing safely comes at the price of appliances and electricity that's increasingly costly and less reliable. Wildfire smoke forces Americans to choose: Choke, roast indoors, or pay up. https://t.co/slMnAwuHx2
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Breathing easy in this latest disaster comes at a steep price – and at a moment when the cost of everything else is soaring.
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The debt ceiling deal clears all hurdles for a controversial natural gas megaproject. But unlike when Joe Manchin's Mountain Valley Pipeline push last fall, the bill to approve it this time *doesn't* include policies to build out the U.S. electrical grid. https://t.co/riU5JQT3JM
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The White House’s budget agreement with the GOP delivers the Mountain Valley Pipeline – sans the permitting reforms the renewable industry hoped for last year.
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The U.S. is running low on electrical transformers, threatening to worsen blackouts and delay the shift from fossil fuels. Demand is soaring thanks to climate change. Suppliers can't keep up, and bungled federal policies seem to be inflaming the problem. https://t.co/imC0yEtg9R
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A nationwide shortage of electrical transformers has been growing for years, and it may be getting worse.
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Biden wants new homes to be built to the nation's latest and most efficient building codes to qualify for federal housing loans. The 168,000 new homes impacted per year would 35% more energy and slash $74 million from utility bills per year. https://t.co/WhMNcc0s8P
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The White House estimated that those living in the new homes will save 35% on energy bills compared to those whose homes are built to current standards.
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In 2017, fossil fuel lobbyists drafted a bill designed to thwart future climate protests like #NoDAPL. Since then, 20 states put it on the books. But lawmakers now say they have a different target: neo-Nazi grid saboteurs. Experts say that's debatable. https://t.co/JBuqg6sAfC
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Utah, Georgia and Tennessee are the latest states to pass legislation designed to counter demonstrations like those against the Dakota Access pipeline.
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Germany just became the biggest economy yet to quit nuclear energy, ending a quarter-century struggle that began as a fight against atomic weapons and morphed into a dramatic referendum on whether a hotter world is safer with or without fission power. https://t.co/06oT0OFF1B
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Europe’s largest economy is the biggest yet to quit atomic energy, choosing coal over fission in a struggle with high stakes for climate change and geopolitics.
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Biden could spur construction of 20,000 new homes per month built to the greenest national codes ever written, saving homeowners money and avoiding as much CO2 as Poland emits every year. Yet the administration is defying the law -- and no one knows why. https://t.co/6INE1KEGxH
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A legally required regulatory tweak would save homeowners money and slash huge amounts of carbon. But the policy is years late ― and no one knows why.
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Amid growing protests against the government’s plans to strip the judiciary of its independence, Israel’s controversial new environment minister was shouted off stage at a climate summit in Be’er Sheva today. But not before she made some notable remarks: https://t.co/l3yQwF6KmM
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All the spent nuclear fuel in the U.S. could fit in one Wal-Mart Supercenter. But there’s enough energy still contained in that waste to power the country for 150 years. Tapping it is costly and controversial. So is not doing so. A look at ☢️ recycling: https://t.co/EQdGOH5t4K
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There's enough energy in spent uranium fuel to power the U.S. for over a century, but recycling waste was a challenge even in America's atomic glory days.
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Taiwan plans to shut down all its atomic power plants in the next 2 years. But quitting nuclear has major implications for the environment and national security. Just ask a European. I traveled to Taiwan in November to see what's at stake. My story: https://t.co/ZY1eYOL8Cy
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The self-governing island plans to shut down its last atomic power stations by 2025, threatening more emissions and greater vulnerability to a blockade by China.
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Biden wants to electrify all new federal buildings and has a vague plan to start decarbonizing existing ones. The move comes as a challenge to the powerful industry groups that last year seized control over the nation's building codes.
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The private consortium that writes the nation’s codes sided with industry over Biden. A new push to clean up federal buildings may put pressure on builders.
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Win for the GOP incumbent at the Texas Railroad Commission, a climate denier who pitched himself to voters as "the only Christian" in a race against a Jewish opponent. Declaring victory, he calls his win a bulwark against "unproven, politicized science." https://t.co/MajWTmy4iz
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Republican incumbent Wayne Christian defeated Democratic challenger Luke Warford for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission.
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Coal-addicted Poland is going nuclear, with plans to build at least 2 atomic energy stations with big traditional reactors and possibly a bunch of SMRs. The effort could help revive the U.S. nuclear industry. But many challenges ahead. W/ @AkbarSAhmed: https://t.co/GYonTQeM4e
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Can building the first atomic energy station in the only major Central European country without one help revive the ailing U.S. nuclear industry?
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By his own admission, people look at @LukeWarfordTX and think “AOC and the Green New Deal.” But the Democrat wants to be Texas’ next oil and gas industry sheriff. He’s the underdog. But he sees an opening in the Lone Star State’s deadly 2021 blackouts. https://t.co/lhR31nstxd
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Luke Warford is vying to become a top sheriff overseeing the state’s powerful oil industry — and to replace a self-dealing ‘political animal.’
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73% of captured CO2 today ends up being used to drill more oil, while just 20% goes into permanent underground storage. By 2030, thanks in part to Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, those numbers are set to completely reverse. https://t.co/vyf0uF10ip
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The vast majority of captured carbon dioxide is used to drill more oil. That’s about to change.
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Nike bought forest carbon offsets in Oregon as part of its climate initiative. Its founder, Phil Knight, has donated $1.75 million to timber heiress and industry ally Betsy Johnson's gubernatorial bid. https://t.co/36XgtEz2ku
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Phil Knight has given an astonishing $1.75 million to timber heiress and former Democratic state Sen. Betsy Johnson’s bid for Oregon governor.
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In the 2000s, a nuclear renaissance was underway. Then came Fukushima. Now war has raised radiation risks at Europe's largest nuclear plant. Will it derail atomic energy's nascent comeback? Perhaps counterintuitively, experts say this time is different. https://t.co/rIuJku3sIk
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Fighting near the Zaporizhzhia plant has raised the risk of a disaster, but industry experts say the case for abundant, zero-carbon power is stronger than ever.
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Voters killed a transmission megaproject to connect dirty New England to Québec's decarbonized grid. Maine's high court may have just revived it. But even if it's built, experts say the U.S. has big transmission problems new climate rules haven't fixed. https://t.co/YhnpQKEPxB
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The ruling from Maine’s high court brings fresh drama to the saga of trying to connect Québec’s green grid to the northeastern U.S.
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