By reforming the broken Nuclear Waste Policy Act, engaging with communities, and investing in innovation, the U.S. can more efficiently handle its spent fuel and address one of the biggest roadblocks to unleashing a nuclear energy revolution.
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A Republican Climate Caucus? Yes, It Exists and Is Growing
"Despite the low marks in the eyes of many environmentalists, the caucus represents an evolution for many Republicans on climate change. The group—one of a growing number of conservative organizations weighing in on climate issues—says it believes that the climate is changing and that the global industrial era is contributing to it."
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House Science Committee Explores Ways to Improve ARPA-E
With changes, ARPA-E can be more effective in accelerating technological breakthroughs that bolster economic progress, reduce emissions, and advance American leadership.
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The Ideology and Reality of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage
"In the future, we will see plane tickets that are carbon neutral thanks to carbon dioxide removal, and natural gas power plants that have no pollution at all. These are opportunities to be welcomed, rather than solutions to be shunned for the unforgivable sin of not being an environmental activists’ preferred climate solution."
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President Biden Turns It Up to 11
Biden performed well above already low expectations but if he doesn’t alter the fundamentals of the 2024 race dramatically and quickly, this State of the Union will be his last.
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New Report Details How Reorganizing the Department of Energy Will Accelerate Innovation
The Department of Energy is critical to advancing energy innovation, strengthening American competitiveness, and accelerating climate progress. Reforms will bring greater oversight, transparency and, effectiveness to the agency’s operations.
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Energy Won’t Stay in the Ground
Halting U.S. energy production will not stop the world from consuming more energy.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Charts a Path Forward on Part 53
"Today, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) released its votes and instructions for the initial draft of Part 53. The Part 53 rule should be predictable, flexible, scalable, and enable innovation. The Commission's decision on the draft Part 53 is a step in the right direction. The Staff Requirements Memorandum (SRM) addresses many of the key concerns of stakeholders. In doing so, the Commission may have taken a draft rule that was unlikely to be used, and set it on a path to be a modern performance-based pathway for licensing new reactors."
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IRA implementation is still suffering from regulatory uncertainty, executives say
"'We maybe celebrated the passage of the IRA a little bit too early,' he said. 'I’m hearing talk — and I’m struggling to embrace this — about the need for additional tariff measures on top of, not instead of, on top of the very substantial subsidies associated with the IRA in order to further drive domestic manufacturing.'"
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20/20 vision for wildlife habitat conservation
"America’s Wildlife Habitat Conservation Act (AWHCA) is a visionary, logical and reasonable policy to more broadly use our proactive tools and knowledge to improve habitat. It will make strategic investments in state and tribal led conservation on both federal and private lands with the caveat that these conservation efforts can generate funding to reinvest and do even more conservation. By strengthening relationships with states, tribes, private landowners, and the federal government, we will empower them to create proactive conservation programs that have been proven to work both on the ground and economically. Through timber sales from thinning activities and private investments in the value created through habitat conservation work, broad scale conservation can eventually fund itself far more effectively than the federal government can, but federal resources and policies are needed to get the conservation started."
