"To meet the future energy needs of Americans, we need more pipeline and refinery capacity, not less. We need to continue to responsibly develop the vast energy resources our country is blessed with, on both private and federal lands."
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The Challenge of Building a New Plant: Paying the Electric Bill
"Domestic production of smelter aluminum—which is known as primary aluminum—is on pace this year for 689,000 metric tons, which would be the lowest since 1950. Smelters have been steadily going out of business for years, pinched between stagnant aluminum prices and escalating power costs, which in some cases have climbed by more than one-third in recent years."
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Trees 101: Why They’re Essential in the Fight Against Climate Change
Innovation is the key to fighting climate change. But nature has already provided the best innovation imaginable: trees. Here are five ways trees help to fight climate change.
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$1.1M ARPA-E award to fund project exploring potential of geologic hydrogen
"Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe but is usually found in compound form. It can be extracted from a variety of sources, including water, fossil fuels and biomass but this requires energy and can release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Geologic hydrogen — or natural hydrogen — is pure hydrogen, generated through water-rock interactions deep in the Earth’s subsurface without active stimulation, the researchers said."
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Projections for electricity emissions underestimated the pace of power transition
"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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For FarmWise’s Cofounders, Opportunity Was In The Weeds
"Rented at a per-acre cost, the geo-fenced robots drive along planted rows, capturing images of crops that get uploaded and run through a model trained to classify each image. Weeds get the chop. Vegetables remain. The more time a robot spends at a given farm, the better the AI gets, and so does the weeding. To date, FarmWise’s robots have imaged about 200 million individual crops and partnered with about a dozen of the largest vegetable farms in the U.S."
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Why You Should Celebrate World Bee Day Today
"'Bees really provide for us in many ways — food provisioning, human well-being. They're important for our culture, dating back thousands of years in terms of heritage, inspiration of art,' Ngo says."
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The Progressive Infrastructure Blacklist
"The blacklist shows how detached from economic reality today’s climate-obsessed progressives are. We wish we could dismiss their work, but the White House appointed these people and solicited their advice, and in this Administration ideas from the outer banks often become official policy."
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Endangered species recovery requires flexibility, not strict regulations
"The success of conservation policy must be measured by its outcomes — not by the number of, or stringency of, regulations. The focus must instead be on supporting local conservation efforts that use some of the most effective species recovery tools we have: private citizens and American industry."
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Biden insists on clean power mandate in Democrat-only bill, climate adviser says
"The Biden administration is outlining renewable energy tax credits and a mandate that utilities shift to carbon-free power as its priorities for the second Democrats-only measure to follow the bipartisan infrastructure deal."
