"A new study explores how the U.S. power sector evolved on a much lower carbon path than analysts were projecting about 15 years ago."
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Lower- and middle-class Americans will pay a fortune for Biden’s wind-power plan
"The EIA projections enable us to estimate how much Biden’s wind flotilla will cost consumers. If all 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind are built and the turbines operate at a 50 percent capacity factor (meaning they produce at full output half of the time), they will generate about 131.4 million megawatt-hours per year. At $121 per megawatt-hour, that energy will cost about $15.9 billion per year."
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Why Closing a Nuclear Plant Could Hurt N.Y.’s Environment
"Critics say that closing the plant will make meeting sustainability goals more difficult, and there is evidence to support that idea. When one of Indian Point’s two working reactors shut down permanently last summer, the share of the state’s power that came from gas-powered generators increased by several percentage points."
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A boom in bureaucracy won’t build America back any better
"Massive expansion of federal bureaucracy and government control won’t make America’s roads and bridges better; and it won’t make our power grids more reliable or less polluting. For far too long, Washington-generated red tape and duplicative oversight have hamstrung our nation’s ability to repair crumbling infrastructure without massive cost overruns and unnecessary delays."
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Absolute Decoupling of Economic Growth and Emissions in 32 Countries
"[T]here is increasing evidence that the world is on track to absolutely decouple CO2 emissions and economic growth — with global CO2 emissions potentially having peaked in 2019 and unlikely to increase substantially in the coming decade."
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Honeywell Joins The Growing List Of Companies Committed To Carbon Neutrality
"Honeywell said that it would reach that goal in its operations and facilities through investment in energy-saving projects, conversion to renewable energy sources and other initiatives. It intends to use carbon credits to achieve that goal only if it can’t reduce emissions fast enough through innovation."
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CO2 tax support is based in myth: Taxing essential energy harms more than it helps
"The CO2 tax is a regressive burden on the energy that keeps Americans comfortable and healthy, and it will impose its greatest financial burdens on the businesses and communities that can least afford it. Americans already are drastically cutting emissions, and the arguments in support of the tax undercut the very market mechanisms upon which supporters claim to rely."
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Tax Incentives Are No Way to Drive Energy Innovation. Here’s Why.
Preferential tax treatment reduces the necessity for an industry to make its technology cost-competitive, because the tax credit shields a company from recognizing the actual price at which its technology is economically viable.
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Climate Activists Smash Barclays HQ Windows To Protest Capitalism’s Role In Climate Change
"Activists from the Extinction Rebellion group used hammers and chisels to break windows at Barclays Bank’s global headquarters in London Wednesday to protest the bank’s 'continued investments in activities that are directly contributing to the climate and ecological emergency.'"
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Here’s All the Climate Science You Missed So Far This Year
Bloomberg Green’s Eric Roston reports on some of the important climate science stories that have happened this year. “Somehow there’s still good news—the adoption of renewables and electric vehicles, oil-industry introspection, even sweeter peaches (drought stress raises sugar production). With sustained effort, we might see the most important measures of planetary health improve. Global CO₂ emissions from energy...
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