"China’s five-year plan is 'underwhelming and shows little sign of a concerted switch away from a future coal lock-in,' said Swithin Lui, of NewClimate Institute, and the China lead for Climate Action Tracker."
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McMorris Rodgers leads GOP effort to upgrade, promote U.S. hydropower projects
“'Hydropower is the largest renewable energy source, and it provides clean, reliable and affordable energy to families in eastern Washington,' said Rep. McMorris Rodgers. 'In fact, hydropower accounts for roughly 70 percent of our clean energy across all of Washington State.'"
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Rule by Regulation
Andrew Stuttaford of National Review analyzes the Biden administration’s rule by regulation approach to clean energy and climate change. “The real aim of the emerging central-bank game is two-fold. Firstly, to increase the cost of capital for climate sinners by ‘discouraging’ banks from lending to them and secondly, by mandating disclosure of such risks (and...
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The Race To Develop Plastic-Eating Bacteria
Scott Carpenter of Forbes writes about the scientific race to develop plastic-eating enzymes. “The bacteria, Ideonella sakaiensis, was only able to eat a particular kind of plastic called PET, from which bottles are commonly made, and it could not do so nearly fast enough to mitigate the tens of millions of tons of plastic waste that enter...
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Clean Energy to Make More Carbon-Negative Fuel Available for Transportation with bp
“'Carbon-negative RNG is being used today by thousands of vehicles with more and more fleets requesting it every week,' said Andrew J. Littlefair, CEO and president of Clean Energy. 'Taking this next step allows us to expand the availability of the fuel while providing dairy owners with a way to make a significant impact on the environment and create an additional revenue stream.'"
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How Personal Technology is Democratizing Environmental Action
"Quietly, the same forces are at work in the environmental sector—reducing CO2 emissions, magnifying the role of citizen scientists, and addressing distributed sources of pollution that government agencies find difficult to address. The growth of personal environmental technologies is not new. What is now clear, however, is how small actions by thousands or millions of people can aggregate to produce big environmental benefits."
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The Biden administration should build, not backtrack, on energy progress
"The top priority must be to continue producing U.S. energy. Over the past four years, the Department of Energy advanced a true all-of-the-above policy that leveraged all fuels and all technologies to enhance our energy and national security as well as hasten the transition to less carbon-intensive fuels by developing nations."
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Correcting the record on animal agriculture and sustainability
"Critics frequently cite global numbers for the environmental impact of animal agriculture rather than using statistics specific to the U.S., where production practices have advanced to decrease greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and animal agriculture is responsible for just 4 percent of total GHG emissions."
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Put conservatives back into conservation
"We all care about the environment; after all, this is our home and the world we will pass down to our children and grandchildren. Where we differ is how to steward the resources we’ve been given. As conservatives, we believe stewardship means using our resources wisely."
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What’s the Role for New Nuclear Power in the Fight Against Climate Change?
"Zeke Hausfather, director of climate and energy at pro-nuclear think tank The Breakthrough Institute, counters that the amount of government funding going into SMR development is relatively minor. And it’s money that likely wouldn’t be otherwise spent on building out wind and solar anyway."
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