"But one of Biden’s major pitches for the IRA — that it will help the American economy and U.S. workers — doesn’t seem to be resonating. According to the poll, only about 2 in 10 Americans say the law has done more to help the U.S. economy, while about one-quarter think it’s done more to hurt the economy, and about half think it either made no difference or don’t know enough to say."
Five Myths About Climate Policy
"Real progress on climate change requires an honest brokerage of the issues, and a willingness to work on the nuts and bolts of pragmatic progress that can yield more benefits than costs.”
World’s Ice Is Melting Faster Than Ever, Climate Scientists Say
“Between 1994 and 2017, the Earth lost 28 trillion metric tons of ice, the survey showed. That is an amount roughly equivalent to a sheet of ice 100 meters thick covering the state of Michigan or the entire U.K."
Biden’s $7B ‘clean’ hydrogen dream faces pipeline hurdle
"The National Petroleum Council, a federal advisory committee, recently recommended that Congress give FERC the ability to regulate interstate hydrogen pipelines in a report requested by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm."
Commercial Carbon Capture And Use Takes A Step Forward With Carbon Clean
“While initially carbon capture and storage was associated with the concept of clean coal, the idea that carbon capture would enable the world to continue to use fossil fuels."
OpenAI reportedly in talks with Helion Energy to ‘buy vast quantities’ of fusion power
"Helion is racing to deliver on that breakthrough. The company has raised $612 million in venture capital, with the promise of $1.8 billion of additional funding getting unlocked if deadlines are met. It has also received $8.97 million in federal grants."
Florida lawmakers tackle flood risk with slate of climate change bills
"State House Speaker Chris Sprowls (R-Palm Harbor) presented his 'Always Ready' agenda with bills sponsored by Rep. Demi Busatta Cabrera (R-Coral Gables) and Rep. Linda Chaney (R-St. Pete Beach) to dedicate $100 million each year to mitigate the impacts of flooding and sea-level rise starting in 2022."
How heat pumps can turn wasted energy into low-carbon whisky
"Chivas Brothers’ £60 million ($76 million) decarbonization plan is built on the heat-recovery project it launched at Glentauchers in 2021. The facility still relies on fossil-fueled boilers, but its new system has cut the distillery’s total energy usage by 48 percent and energy-related carbon emissions by 53 percent by reducing how much it has to use those boilers, according to the company’s case study."
The Race To Develop Plastic-Eating Bacteria
Scott Carpenter of Forbes writes about the scientific race to develop plastic-eating enzymes. “The bacteria, Ideonella sakaiensis, was only able to eat a particular kind of plastic called PET, from which bottles are commonly made, and it could not do so nearly fast enough to mitigate the tens of millions of tons of plastic waste that enter...
Profitable And Sustainable Businesses Exist: Explorer Bertrand Piccard Proves It With 1,000 Examples
"The 1,000 solutions are just the start of Piccard’s effort to dismantle the myth that sustainability and growth do not go hand in hand—they do, he argues, when the focus is on qualitative growth, which requires focusing on improving efficiency rather than quantity of production."