"Monday’s announcement includes a goal for 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2030, more than triple what the country is on pace for by 2026 if permits were issued without delay, according to trade group estimates."
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It’s time to bring back the Budget committees to the congressional budget process
This year, the last set of negotiated discretionary spending levels has expired. Restoring the role of the Budget committees to serve as the clearinghouse for reviewing all aspects of the president’s budget request and establishing the upcoming fiscal year’s discretionary spending totals would be beneficial.
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U.S. Rare Earth Independence from China Still Has Years to Go, Experts Say
Decades of one-size-fits-all environment regulation and policy inattention are part of the reason for the increased dependency. Even with the United States holding vast mineral reserves worth trillions of dollars, America is now 100 percent dependent on imports for some 17 key minerals.
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McCarthy: Nuclear energy isn’t going anywhere
"McCarthy signaled during the event that the administration — which would need its CES to pass Congress — could include financial support for nuclear. Some older facilities may need additional financial support to stay operational as natural gas and renewables eat into its share of the grid, McCarthy said."
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Biden’s Conservation Plan Needs a Bottom-Up, not Top-Down, Focus
Identifying opportunities to empower the people who best understand the importance of productive land use, conservation and environmental stewardship will go a long way to meet the administration’s environmental objectives.
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How the U.S. and Taiwan Can Unite on Energy and Foreign Policy
"According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), Taiwan generates 46 percent of its electricity with coal. Though it now has an objective to eliminate emissions by 2050, Taiwan used more coal-fired power from 2015 through 2019 than in any other five-year stretch in its history, setting a coal-generation record of 131 terawatt-hours in 2018."
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“Nuclear Batteries” Offer a New Approach to Carbon-Free Energy
"We may be on the brink of a new paradigm for nuclear power, a group of nuclear specialists suggested recently in The Bridge, the journal of the National Academy of Engineering."
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How To Scale Up Carbon Capture And Storage
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is starting to happen. A plethora of CCS projects has emerged in the last year, large and small in scope, in upstream and LNG, as well as energy-intensive industries beyond the oil and gas value chain including the power, steel, cement and fertilizer sectors.
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7 Ways Plastic Bottles are Being Recycled and Finding New Life
Plastic bottle use is inevitable. It’s unlikely that even the most committed environmentalist will be able to go through their life without drinking from a plastic bottle at some point. But, while the use of plastic bottles is inevitable, bottles ending up in a landfill is not.
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