“With our abundant resources, cutting-edge technology and export opportunities, it is to our benefit that coal remains a part of our energy future.”
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Drop in pandemic carbon dioxide emissions previews world of electric vehicles
“When the San Francisco Bay Area mandated shelter-in-place March 16, it created a natural experiment for UC Berkeley's Ron Cohen, who had established an inexpensive pollution sensor network in local neighborhoods. The sensors showed carbon dioxide emissions plummeting 25 percent in the subsequent six weeks, mostly because of a 48 percent drop in traffic. Networks like this -- soon to be emplaced in Glasgow -- can track greenhouse gases and progress toward lowering them, including the impact of electric vehicles.”
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Clean energy provides lifeline for rural Texas
"Texas is now the nation’s top producer of wind energy, and both wind and solar energy are providing a more reliable and consistent source of revenue to rural Texas."
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Coal India to invest over $760 million over four years in solar to cut costs
“Coal India Ltd, the world’s largest coal miner, said on Monday it would invest 56.50 billion rupees ($763 million) by March 2024 to build 14 solar projects to help power its mining operations and cut costs.”
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China plans clean energy future
"China has mastered the technology to design and construct gigawatt-class nuclear power plants with pressurized water reactors, it adds. Breakthroughs have also been made in ‘multiple frontier technologies including those associated with fast reactors and advanced small modular reactors.’"
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Biden’s climate crusade: How his plan to cut carbon emissions, create jobs could impact U.S.
“Biden’s goals include carbon-free electricity by 2035, more wind and solar to get the nation to net-zero emissions and 100% clean energy by 2050."
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Agribusiness announces $2 billion project to store captured carbon from ethanol in North Dakota
"Although final details and permits have yet to be worked out, an Iowa agribusiness company announced plans on Friday, Feb. 19, to build a $2 billion pipeline network that will carry liquefied carbon dioxide from ethanol plants in four states to underground storage in North Dakota."
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How Economic Freedom Creates a Healthy Environment
As the 2021 Index of Economic Freedom reminds us once again, it is the freer economies that do far better job of achieving more dynamic growth while creating a healthier, cleaner natural environment.
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Fracking Ban Threatens American Jobs and Derails Our Environmental Progress
Stephanie Catarino Wissman, on RealClearEnergy, writes about the detrimental effects that a fracking ban would have on the United States. “Banning fracking ignores sound science in favor of a false choice between renewable energy and natural gas. Today, more than 95 percent of U.S. natural gas and oil wells are developed using fracking. With the...
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CO2 tax support is based in myth: Taxing essential energy harms more than it helps
"The CO2 tax is a regressive burden on the energy that keeps Americans comfortable and healthy, and it will impose its greatest financial burdens on the businesses and communities that can least afford it. Americans already are drastically cutting emissions, and the arguments in support of the tax undercut the very market mechanisms upon which supporters claim to rely."
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