“The researchers found that 6% of parents confessed to feeling some remorse about having children. A 40-year-old mother said: ‘I regret having my kids because I am terrified that they will be facing the end of the world due to climate change.’”
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Nuclear provides NJ’s economy with a $1.2B boost
“Nuclear power’s impact on New Jersey’s economy is undeniable. With so many businesses facing recession-like losses because of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people have found that they depend even more on safe, reliable and affordable electricity — especially now that our homes are doing extra duty as offices, classrooms and entertainment venues.”
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Coal Country Can Retool Itself To The New Energy Future
“For displaced coal workers, the majority staff recommends financial support through wage replacement, health care, and job retraining and placement, along with community-oriented assistance such as coal site reclamation, investment in local leadership and entrepreneurs, temporary supplements for lost tax revenue to ensure essential services, and investments in economic diversification."
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Solar Power Booms in Texas
“It is part of a growing number of solar projects in sunny, land-rich Texas, where experts long predicted solar farms would bloom. Solar-farm development in Texas is expected to accelerate in the coming years as generation costs fall and power demand grows. That growth puts it on track to claim a much larger share of a power market dominated by wind farms and natural-gas power plants.”
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Innovative Carbon Capture Solutions Proposed To Help Achieve Net-Zero World
“More than 30 commercial facilities have been announced across the world in the last three years. Potential investment in CCUS projects is estimated at around $27 billion, more than double the level of investment planned in 2017."
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This Is How Black Friday Hurts The Planet—But Attitudes Are Changing
“‘I think the study from Money.co.uk is sobering because it shows the alarming quantity of emissions involved in delivering things to our homes, but that’s really only looking at the very end of the process,’ Capstick says. ‘What the report doesn’t get at is why we’re doing this in the first place. The fundamental question to ask is: ‘why are we buying all this stuff?’”
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Subsidizing and innovating away climate change
“One is a bipartisan Senate bill introduced last week that would give subsidies to nuclear power plants that are in danger of closing down. It would also streamline the regulatory government reviews that advanced nuclear power plants must undergo.”
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Biden’s Liberal Internationalists
"Chinese leaders will be only too happy to make future promises on climate in return for American acquiescence today to their security priorities of Taiwan, the South China Sea and Huawei. Sending Mr. Kerry to negotiate with Chinese President Xi Jinping on climate is a recipe for returning home dressed in a barrel. An obsession with climate will turn a U.S. security strength into a vulnerability."
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Billionaire Miner Forrest Aims to Be a Global Clean Energy Giant
"'We just had to apply the technology and the scale which we’ve done successfully at Fortescue to make sure renewable fuel competes against fossil fuels.'"
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George W. Bush’s EPA chief thinks Biden will revert agency to pre-Trump era
Abby Smith on The Washington Examiner writes that Bush’s former EPA chief believes Biden will return the agency to what it looked like prior to the pre-Trump era. “Biden’s agenda to curb emissions and other pollution will immediately help win favor with EPA staff who have been sidelined during the Trump administration, Whitman said. Biden...
