Biden’s Energy Plan Faces Headwinds, But Can Move the US Forward
4 years ago

Biden’s Energy Plan Faces Headwinds, But Can Move the US Forward

The Quint  

How will Congress respond? As one indicator, the Senate is currently considering a large energy bill that focuses on efficiency and energy research and development, including renewables and nuclear power. Experience since the early 2010s shows that the GOP will resist any infrastructure legislation with provisions for dealing with climate change, which includes grid modernization. Other opposition could come from a number of the 31 Republican-controlled state legislatures, which have significant influence over infrastructure projects within their borders. Continued tax credits for solar and wind installations, and possibly for purchases of electric vehicles, could draw support from legislators representing states like Texas, Iowa and Nevada where these industries are big employers.

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Why green investments have become the last line of defense for Biden’s climate agenda
4 weeks ago

Why green investments have become the last line of defense for Biden’s climate agenda

CNN  

CNN — Can the green shoots of clean energy break through the “brown blockade”? The brown blockade is the phrase I’ve used to describe the hardening tendency of the states most deeply integrated into the existing oil and gas economy, as either major producers or consumers of fossil fuels, to support Republican presidential and congressional candidates who are resolutely opposed …

Biden is talking about green energy and jobs in Pennsylvania again. Will his message break through?
1 year, 2 months ago

Biden is talking about green energy and jobs in Pennsylvania again. Will his message break through?

Associated Press  

PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden returned to Pennsylvania Friday to use the critical battleground state again as a backdrop for some of his favorite political themes, championing steep increases in public works spending and detailing how bolstering green energy can spur U.S. manufacturing. “I think it’s about the local impact.” Indeed, allies contend Biden should stay on political message as …

Biden making $20 billion available from ‘green bank’ for clean energy projects
1 year, 5 months ago

Biden making $20 billion available from ‘green bank’ for clean energy projects

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Friday it is making available $20 billion from a federal “green bank” for clean energy projects such as residential heat pumps, electric vehicle charging stations and community cooling centers. Vice President Kamala Harris called the grant programs announced Friday “the largest investment in financing for community-based climate projects in our nation’s history,’' adding: “It’s …

Biden making $20 billion available from ‘green bank’ for clean energy projects
1 year, 5 months ago

Biden making $20 billion available from ‘green bank’ for clean energy projects

LA Times  

The Biden administration is making available $20 billion for clean energy projects such electric vehicle charging stations like these in Nashville. The Biden administration said Friday it is making available $20 billion from a federal “green bank” for clean energy projects such as residential heat pumps, electric vehicle charging stations and community cooling centers. Vice President Kamala Harris called the …

Biden wants to protect public lands. What about renewable energy?
1 year, 6 months ago

Biden wants to protect public lands. What about renewable energy?

LA Times  

As environmental compensation for several solar farms, renewable energy developer Avantus retired grazing rights on 215,000 acres of federal land in California’s Kern County, including some with Joshua trees. Companies also say the draft regulation would make it easier for the Bureau of Land Management’s local field offices to establish “Areas of Critical Environmental Concern,” which could pose an obstacle …

Will Biden’s hard-hat environmentalism bridge the divide on clean energy future?
1 year, 7 months ago

Will Biden’s hard-hat environmentalism bridge the divide on clean energy future?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — When John Podesta left his job as an adviser to President Barack Obama nearly a decade ago, he was confident that hundreds of miles of new power transmission lines were coming to the Southwest, expanding the reach of clean energy throughout the region. “These things get stuck and they don’t get unstuck,” Podesta said in an interview with …

House GOP approves broad bill to ‘unleash’ American energy
1 year, 8 months ago

House GOP approves broad bill to ‘unleash’ American energy

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Thursday approved a sprawling energy package that seeks to undo virtually all of President Joe Biden’s agenda to address climate change. Biden has threatened to veto the bill, saying it would replace “pro-consumer policies” adopted in the landmark climate law approved last year “with a thinly veiled license to pollute.’' The bill would roll back …

US House Republicans face unity test with major energy bill
1 year, 8 months ago

US House Republicans face unity test with major energy bill

Firstpost  

The 175-page measure, dubbed the Lower Energy Costs Act, represents a top 2022 Republican campaign pledge to lower Americans’ energy costs by scaling back Democratic President Joe Biden’s climate policies and increasing oil and gas production through deregulation. Washington: The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on its first major legislation of the year on Thursday, a …

Biden’s next climate hurdle: Enticing Americans to buy green
1 year, 11 months ago

Biden’s next climate hurdle: Enticing Americans to buy green

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden persuaded Democrats in Congress to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to fight climate change. But it also means the administration’s battle against global warming will be waged “one household at a time,” said Shannon Baker-Branstetter, who works on energy issues at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank closely aligned with the …

President Joe Biden's next climate hurdle: Entice Americans to buy green
1 year, 11 months ago

President Joe Biden's next climate hurdle: Entice Americans to buy green

Firstpost  

Washington: President Joe Biden persuaded Democrats in Congress to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to fight climate change. But it also means the administration’s battle against global warming will be waged “one household at a time,” said Shannon Baker-Branstetter, who works on energy issues at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank closely aligned with the White …

Biden’s next climate hurdle: enticing Americans to buy green
1 year, 11 months ago

Biden’s next climate hurdle: enticing Americans to buy green

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But it also means the administration’s battle against global warming will be waged “one …

The Senate has a climate deal. Now comes the hard part
2 years, 4 months ago

The Senate has a climate deal. Now comes the hard part

LA Times  

After decades of inaction on the climate crisis, the federal government is on the verge of enacting a sweeping plan to slash planet-warming pollution, with Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema agreeing late Thursday to support the bill. Phasing out coal, oil and natural gas — the fossil fuels largely responsible for the climate crisis — will require building huge amounts of …

Biden hails economic bill amid signs of broad Dem support
2 years, 4 months ago

Biden hails economic bill amid signs of broad Dem support

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden hailed a nascent Democratic package of climate, health care and tax initiatives as “a giant step forward” for the country Thursday as congressional leaders began nailing down votes for a campaign-season bill they’ve cast as a boon for voters struggling with inflation. After Schumer briefed Democratic senators on the 725-page measure, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, …

Opinion: How President Biden can win the energy war with Russia — and lower gas prices
2 years, 7 months ago

Opinion: How President Biden can win the energy war with Russia — and lower gas prices

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Kevin Johnson is an Iraq War veteran and board director of the American Resilience Project and Environmental Defense Action Fund. In the United States, President Biden should invoke his emergency powers under the Defense Production Act to ramp up clean energy production and installation at a pace and scale similar to military weaponry production during World War II. …

Biden Says Energy Plan Will Fight Climate Change, Inflation In State Of The Union Speech
2 years, 9 months ago

Biden Says Energy Plan Will Fight Climate Change, Inflation In State Of The Union Speech

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Joe Biden honed a pragmatic new message on climate change in his first State of the Union speech Tuesday evening, recasting his sweeping proposal to spend more than any country ever has on clean energy as a way to simultaneously combat the rise in U.S. planet-heating emissions and inflation. And we’ll do it to withstand the …

Biden signs $1.2 trillion US infrastructure bill into law
3 years, 1 month ago

Biden signs $1.2 trillion US infrastructure bill into law

Al Jazeera  

A second bill – Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ plan – is expected to be debated in Congress this week. President Joe Biden signed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure investment plan into law at the White House, offering an optimistic outlook for the improving but still damaged US economy and claiming progress in his ambitious legislative agenda. Biden will visit General Motors’s …

Solar energy has the potential to power 40% of US electricity by 2035, new DOE report shows
3 years, 3 months ago

Solar energy has the potential to power 40% of US electricity by 2035, new DOE report shows

CNN  

CNN — A new blueprint from the Biden administration shows how solar energy could play a massive role in transitioning the United States’ power sector to clean energy, and achieve the President’s ambitious goals to decarbonize the US economy. The Solar Futures Study from the Department of Energy, released Wednesday, shows that by 2035, solar energy has the potential to …

Reconciliation, infrastructure bills will mostly meet Biden’s climate emissions goals, Schumer says
3 years, 3 months ago

Reconciliation, infrastructure bills will mostly meet Biden’s climate emissions goals, Schumer says

CNN  

CNN — An analysis from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office estimates that combined, the bipartisan infrastructure bill and $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill can meet the majority of President Joe Biden’s target to drastically slash emissions by the end of the decade. Though the analysis Schumer cites combines the impacts of both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the reconciliation …

Biden’s social agenda advances as US House passes budget plan
3 years, 4 months ago

Biden’s social agenda advances as US House passes budget plan

Al Jazeera  

Ambitious proposals to expand childcare, shift the US to clean energy, other social programmes depend on Democratic unity. Centrist Democrats, led by Representative Josh Gottheimer, had initially refused to go along, saying the House must first pass another Biden priority: a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill that won approval by Republicans and Democrats in the Senate. With the budget vote, …

The White House Is Seeking To Soothe Worries That It's Pushing Climate Plans Aside
3 years, 5 months ago

The White House Is Seeking To Soothe Worries That It's Pushing Climate Plans Aside

NPR  

The White House Is Seeking To Soothe Worries That It's Pushing Climate Plans Aside Enlarge this image toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Biden administration is trying to make clear they are committed to passing and signing the major clean energy proposals President Biden had initially framed as a centerpiece of his infrastructure proposal after those priorities …

Democrats go to war over infrastructure
3 years, 5 months ago

Democrats go to war over infrastructure

Daily Mail  

Democrats are going to war over infrastructure with liberal senators threatening not to support President Joe Biden's compromise bill without a second $6 trillion measure that contains their wish list items, such as free child care and green projects. President Joe Biden is trying to hold together competing factions of Democrats as a war breaks out within the party over …

Go green or go bipartisan? Biden’s big infrastructure choice
3 years, 6 months ago

Go green or go bipartisan? Biden’s big infrastructure choice

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s hopes of channeling billions of dollars into green infrastructure investments to fight climate change are running into the political obstacle of winning over Republican lawmakers who oppose that approach as unnecessary, excessive spending. As negotiations unfold in Congress in search of a bipartisan deal, the White House’s ability to ensure a climate focus in Biden’s …

Hydropower can help solve climate change, groups tell Biden
3 years, 7 months ago

Hydropower can help solve climate change, groups tell Biden

LA Times  

This is the May 6, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. As the New York Times’ Brad Plumer reported in October, the environmental groups involved in those conversations — including American Rivers, the Nature Conservancy, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the World Wildlife Fund — …

Water bill may open spigot for Biden infrastructure plan
3 years, 7 months ago

Water bill may open spigot for Biden infrastructure plan

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Rarely has a routine water resources bill generated so much political buzz, but as senators hoisted the measure to passage Thursday the bipartisan infrastructure legislation served as a potential template for building consensus around President Joe Biden’s ambitious American Jobs Plan. Biden spoke by phone Thursday with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., a leader on the water bill …

US White House backs aggressive power grid emissions cuts: Report
3 years, 7 months ago

US White House backs aggressive power grid emissions cuts: Report

Al Jazeera  

Requiring power utilities to reduce use of coal and natural gas is a key part of US President Biden’s climate plan. The White House hopes to capitalise on growing support from United States utilities, unions and green groups for a national clean energy mandate by backing efforts to require the US power grid to get 80 percent of its power …

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