This week, a 65-page report released by BloombergNEF and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy contains good and bad news. The short version: sustainable energy continues to grow despite supply chain issues, inflation, and regulatory obstacles; the U.S. is behind when it comes to the Obama administration’s 2015 Paris emissions pledges. By Meteor Blades The authors wrote: […]
Our dependence on fossil fuels is one of the biggest challenges to overcome in the fight against climate change. But production and consumption of fossil fuels is on the rise, and expected to peak within the next decade. Nehal El-Hadi, The Conversation and Daniel Merino, The Conversation The Conversation In this episode of The […]
More than half of new US generating capacity this year will be SOLAR – The U.S. Energy Information Administration, part of the Department of Energy, has long tracked energy production and consumption and made forecasts in its Annual Energy Outlook and its International Energy Outlook. While its tracking of what’s already happened has been uniformly excellent, critics […]
Climate and environmental campaigners on Wednesday hailed the first-ever U.S. government offshore wind power lease sale off the Pacific coast, an auction that drew over three-quarters of a billion dollars in winning bids. By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams The U.S. Interior Department said Wednesday that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s wind energy auction on Tuesday […]
Group of 20 nations and major multilateral development banks spent nearly twice as much financing international fossil fuel projects as they did on clean energy alternatives during a recent two-year period, a report published Tuesday by a pair of green groups revealed. By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth U.S., along with […]
Hurricane Ian’s catastrophic winds and flooding are likely to bring long-lasting power outages to large parts of Florida. The storm is the latest in a line of hurricanes and extreme heat and cold events that have knocked out power to millions of Americans in recent years for days at a time. Will Gorman, Lawrence Berkeley […]
President Joe Biden signed into law on Tuesday the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes roughly $370 billion in tax credits and other programs to expand clean energy and reduce planet-warming pollution. By Environment America The law invests in: Clean energy: The United States has enough wind and solar resources to power the country many times […]
Texas is known for fiercely promoting its oil and gas industries, but it’s also the No. 2 renewable energy producer in the country after California. In fact, more than a quarter of all the wind power produced in the United States in 2021 was generated in Texas. Nathan Jensen, The University of Texas at Austin […]
With passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which contains US$370 billion for climate and energy programs, policy experts are forecasting a big expansion in clean electricity generation. One source that’s poised for growth is offshore wind energy. Michael E. Webber, University of Texas at Austin and Hugh Daigle, University of Texas at Austin The Conversation […]
Earth Source Heat (ESH) is Cornell’s version of a deep geothermal system that would use the Earth’s internal heat to warm the Ithaca campus without the use of fossil fuels. The project is a research collaboration across several academic departments along with campus facilities staff, and it is a major component of the university’s goal […]
This article from Yale Climate Connections explains the plethora of benefits, climate and otherwise, that will follow as a result of the Inflation Reduction Act. By Dana Nuccitelli Citizens’ Climate Lobby The author, CCL Research Coordinator Dana Nuccitelli, also held a training on this topic, which can be found below. The U.S. Senate passed the Inflation Reduction […]
With many nations making efforts to transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy, SciLine interviewed Erin Baker, a professor of industrial engineering and operations at UMass Amherst. Baker discussed the technological, political and regulatory efforts needed for this transition, as well as ways that our fossil fuel-dependent system disproportionately harms poor communities and communities […]
The Biden administration announced it was putting a two-year freeze on the threat of new solar tariffs, throwing a lifeline to U.S. solar installers – and likely to the country’s ability to meet its climate goals.The tariff threat involved imported solar panels and components from four Asian countries that supply about 80% of photovoltaic cells […]
The White House announced on Monday executive actions to help “create a bridge” to a “clean energy future” including invoking the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of U.S.-made solar panels. The actions, first reported by Reuters, come as the Build Back Better’s climate provisions remain stalled in the Senate and amid the threat of […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced Europe to rethink its energy policy – especially its deep dependence on Russia for about one-third of its fossil fuel imports. The European Union has negotiated a plan to partially ban imports of Russian oil, although questions remain about issues such as the timing of an embargo and what […]