"Rather than relying on more centralized planning, we should expand the market for electricity conservation. Providing tools and incentives for individuals to reduce electricity use during periods of high demand is the best and most efficient tool we have to avoid future catastrophic blackouts."
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"Valvoline has announced a new pilot program to roll out electric vehicle service and maintenance offerings in a number of its retail stores. The company is calling this move 'the next step in advancing Valvoline’s strategy to extend its world-class preventive auto maintenance service model to EV owners, OEMs and fleets.'"
Supreme Court Can and Should Resolve ‘Waters of the United States’ Issue
"By clarifying that the standard for WOTUS, including wetlands, should be based on Scalia’s plurality opinion in Rapanos, the Supreme Court will ensure that the agencies have the clear guidance they need to develop a WOTUS regulatory definition that does properly reflect Supreme Court decisions, the Clean Water Act, and the Constitution. Absent this, there will be continued confusion."
Australian Company to Build EV Charging-Station Factory in Tennessee
"Australia’s Tritium DCFC Ltd. is planning to break ground this year on a Tennessee factory to build electric-vehicle charging stations, a development touted by the White House on Tuesday as part of a wave of new private-sector spending spurred by President Biden’s infrastructure policy."
Geothermal startup nabs $40M for deep drilling push
"Quaise, working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, plans to move from indoor drilling to in-ground field under lab conditions allowing expansion to depths around 10 meters this year, Araque told Axios via email."
Can AI Save Humanity From Climate Change? That’s the Wrong Question
“'AI is a powerful tool, but climate action will require all the tools. The moral of the story for me is that it is important for people to think about how they can use the tools they have to make a difference on problems that they care about.'”
How startup ReCircled is designing for circular fashion
"I think we need to come together as an industry and make things more transparent about what's possible today. And there's a lot that can be done today. Two years ago when we started this, we always mentioned that everybody's looking for the magic pill for circularity just to happen. And that's not gonna happen, so that's where the status is. We need more people starting. We need more brands just starting rather than talking about it."
GOP North Dakota senator says he wants to tackle climate change
"If we start with the things that we already have some bipartisan agreement on - and by the way, a couple of those things are in the BBB, in the Build Back Better climate package. And they include carbon capture utilization and storage, bringing back more of nuclear power into the United States. Yeah. I'm always going to be interested in being at the table until it gets ridiculous."
California’s Solar-Power Welfare State
"The dirty little secret about green energy subsidies is that they are welfare for the wealthy. And like any entitlement, they are hard to reform once people get hooked. Witness the revolt by the rich against a California proposal to scale back subsidies for rooftop-solar panels."
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