Jeremy Dillon of E&E News reports on the House Republicans’ new energy and permitting package. “‘Every time we need a pipeline, road or dam, an average of almost 5 years and millions of dollars in costs get added to the project to comply with Washington’s permitting process. That’s too long,’ Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said...
"A bipartisan bill will be introduced Thursday by Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) to re-up a program to foster next–generation agricultural research, including work to address the agriculture sector's ability to withstand extreme weather."
Todd Myers, in his book "Time to Think Small," makes the case for climate optimism by pointing out that bottom-up environmental solutions are nearly endless.
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"The power station is a joint venture between Sembcorp and 8 Rivers Capital, which invented the Allam-Fetvedt Cycle. The process, which has so far only been demonstrated at Net Power’s test facility in La Porte, Texas, burns 4% natural gas and 4% oxygen in a combustor alongside CO2. The combustion process results in 925ºC, 300bar CO2, which is fed through a turboexpander to generate power."
Policymakers Should Let The Market Measure Climate Risk
The report shows that markets and the private sector are making impressive strides to deploy clean technologies.
"Under this Administration, there is now a federal policy requiring an APD, or an application for permit to drill, including for environmental and archeological surveys, to traverse a federal lease. Even though most Oklahoma operations are on private lands, we must now wait months or years for a permit to travel across a federal parcel, even if the lease area is only a small portion of a unit. According to the Bureau of Land Management’s data, it now takes an average of 109 days for BLM to approve an APD on federal land."
"With that funding, Solarcycle expects to expand its capacity to recycle 1 million solar panels annually by the close of this year. A 'vertically integrated, advanced recycling factory' will follow in 2024, expanding capacity to 'millions of panels.'"
"The slow process of obtaining permits, in which companies can invest hundreds of millions of euros and years of effort only to have a mining project canceled, is one of the biggest drags on the industry, said Rolf Kuby, director general of Euromines, an industry lobby. He praised the EU Commission’s recent proposal to streamline the process."
