"The agency's latest data shows that new capacity additions surged to almost 280 gigawatts last year despite the pandemic."
Biden’s Environmental Justice Council Adds Heat to Overcooked Debate on Energy Use
Washington could do with fewer messaging documents and more action for Environmental Justice communities, focusing on greener agriculture, lead water pipe replacement, and clean drinking water infrastructure for starters.
Regulatory Improvement is a Win for Infrastructure, the Environment
Rather than recklessly spend and borrow, policymakers should remove government-imposed barriers that would drive infrastructure investment, job growth and emissions reductions.
Amazon adds more renewable power, ranking it as largest wind and solar user in the world
The delivery giant now has 232 energy projects around the world, the equivalent of powering 2.5 million U.S. homes.
The Environmental Case for Improving NEPA
"[P]roponents of clean energy expansion are finding that NEPA is also a barrier to their deployment, and an ironic protection for incumbent, less efficient and dirtier infrastructure."
United by Blue: Cleaning our Waterways One Purchase at a Time
United By Blue is proof that companies of all sizes are making huge strides forward in sustainability.
Drown the Federal Flood Insurance Program
"As politicians go on a spending spree, hiding pet projects hidden in lengthy climate legislation, we need cheaper, smarter, and more effective policies. A private flood insurance market will make premiums expensive for people wanting to build in a flood-prone area—or not offer insurance at all where the risk is too high. That is how the market is supposed to work."
Reversing Trump permitting revisions could hamper Biden’s clean energy goals
"President Joe Biden’s plans to build massive amounts of clean energy over the next decade could get caught in a web of environmental permitting requirements."
Tesla files to become an electricity provider in Texas
"Tesla wants to sell electricity directly to customers in Texas, according to an application filed by the company this month with the Public Utility Commission there."
Even With Climate Change, the World Isn’t Doomed
"[H]igher GDP means better health, lower mortality, greater access to education and in general a better standard of living. By 2050 the problem of air pollution will be mostly solved. And that’s only one of the many issues humanity has shorn down over the last 100 years, according to data 21 top economists and I gathered."
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