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Texas Is Primed To Be Our Nation’s Direct Air Capture Hub
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR NRG – The W. A. Parish power plant on Friday Sept. 5, 2014 in rural Fort Bend … [+] County, TX. Ground was broken today on the Petra...
Disruptions In Energy Security And Climate Security Part 2: What’s Coming.
The LNG (liquefied natural gas) tanker Flex Volunteer, in the Loire estuary, France in 2022. AFP via Getty Images Part 1 was about energy and climate security in the present. Alarming recent events ha...
Renewable Energy Costs Have Dropped Much Faster Than Expected, But There’s A Catch
A wind farm in Cumbria, UK. (Photo by Ashley Cooper/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images) Getty Images Amid the energy crises that have rippled out from beyond the Russian invasion of Ukraine,...
Why Advanced Nuclear Reactors Benefit Industry And Coal-Dependent States
A model of a Small Modular Reactor facility that Rolls-Royce SMR hopes to have operational by the … [+] end of the decade is seen in this handout render provided by Rolls-Royce SMR on Friday, Se...
Electric Vehicle Battery Production May Lead To Coal Country’s Return
US President Joe Biden tours the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant with … [+] General Motors CEO Mary Barra (2L), Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh (2R), and United Auto W...
With Just Five Words, Congress Can Rein In IRS And Other Federal Agents
Under the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS will receive a staggering $45.6 billion to bolster “tax enforcement.” That means substantially more manpower for criminal prosecutions, civil judgments, and ...
Buy Write On Green Energy Electric Company Offers 49-Day, 48% Annualized Return Potential
There are only two stock market sectors posting positive year-to-date total returns. Up 46.5%, energy is the big winner, but utilities are also higher by 6.2% since the start of 2022. We dive into uti...
The IRA: What Hath Washington Wrought?
US President Joe Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by … [+] MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images This is the first of a three-part se...
New Job, Career Paths From Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act And Infrastructure Bill
Woman in energy industry, from Power Magazine, … [+] https://www.powermag.com/women-are-essential-to-a-thriving-power-generation-sector/ Power magazine The hundreds of billions of dollars recent...
The Inflation Reduction Act Gives A Boost To Nuclear Fusion
Technicians work on the bioshield inside the Tokamak Building of the International Thermonuclear … [+] Experimental Reactor in southeastern France. AFP via Getty Images As most people know by no...
First Solar’s Investment Thanks To Inflation Reduction Act. Can China Derail It?
First Solar, America’s premier solar manufacturer, said it will invest over a billion dollars thanks … [+] to the Inflation Reductio Act. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images for NASCAR) ...
Science Doesn’t Care What The Politicians Are Saying
WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 16: U.S. President Joe Biden (C) signs The Inflation Reduction Act with … [+] (L-R) Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY), House Ma...
Millions Of Efficient Electrified Buildings
Hadley Tallackson is a co-author of this article. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the most significant climate legislation in United States history. Energy Innovation Policy and Technology LLC®mo...
The Ultimate Price Of Government Price Controls
WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 16: U.S. President Joe Biden (C) signs The Inflation Reduction Act with … [+] (L-R) Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY), House Ma...
Billions In Just Transition Funding For Coal Communities
Michelle Solomon is a co-author of this article. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the most significant climate legislation in United States history. Energy Innovation Policy and Technology LLC® mo...
Manchin’s Permitting Side Deal Highlights The Energy Transition’s Central Conundrum
WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 16: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) looks to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer … [+] (D-NY) after U.S. President Joe Biden signs The Inflation Reduction Act in the State...
Electric Utilities Hit Renewable Pay Dirt With IRA Passage
Electric cooperatives cover more than half the nation’s land area. National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Christmas came early in the electric utility industry this year. To be precise,...
Fisker Considers U.S. Ocean Production Amid Shakeup In EV Tax Credit
Fisker Inc.’s electric Ocean SUVs won’t qualify for a revised federal tax credit for EVs that requires them to be built at domestic plants. Fisker Inc. Fisker Inc., a Los Angeles-based ele...
Central Bank Hawkishness Hasn’t Faded Yet Despite Lower Inflation
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. More interest rate hikes to curb inflation. As it is now, anyone who got … [+] a 5% raise last year has last it all, and then some. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images...
Why The Inflation Reduction Act’s SAF Tax Credit Won’t Be Enough To Stop Airline Emissions’ Rise
Air travel demand is increasing much more rapidly than the supply of sustainable aviation fuel. Getty Images By Robbie Bourke and David Kaplan Robbie is a partner with Oliver Wyman’s aviation practice...
These Are The EVs And PHEVs That Still Qualify For Federal Tax Credits Through 2022
Woefully few electric vehicles will still qualify for a federal tax credit under the Inflation … [+] Reduction Act. getty As part of a massive tax, climate, and health-care bill signed into law ...
Most Voters Don’t Believe Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act Will Actually Alleviate Inflation, Poll Suggests
Topline Most voters don’t think the Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden Tuesday, will actually help address inflation, a new poll from Morning Consult suggests, finding som...
We Are Asking For More Than Food From Our Farms. A New Cropping Option May Help Meet The Demand
Humanity depends on the agriculture sector to produce our food, feed, and fiber, and that demand continues to grow. Increasingly we look to crops as more climate-friendly sources for fuels, plastics a...
Green Hydrogen Made From Renewables Is A Step Closer Because Of The Inflation Reduction Act
High voltage electricity transmission towers beyond hydrogen storage tanks during the final stages … [+] of construction at Iberdola SA’s Puertollano green hydrogen plant in Puertollano, S...
Biden Signs Sweeping Climate And Health Care Package, Marking Major Victory
Topline President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a climate, health and tax bill that he called “one of the most significant laws” in U.S. history, marking a major win for Biden’s domestic agenda after mo...
New Buyback Excise Tax Snares Foreign Investors
President Joe Biden (C) shakes hands with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) after signing The Inflation … [+] Reduction Act at the White House on August 16th. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty Im...
Energy Provisions In The Inflation Reduction Act
US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) poses with lawmakers after signing the Inflation … [+] Reduction Act after the House of Representatives voted 220-207 to pass it at the US Capitol in ...
House Passes Democrats’ Ambitious $430 Billion Climate And Health Bill
Topline The House of Representatives voted 220-207 to approve the $437 billion Inflation Reduction Act on Friday after months of torturous negotiations among Senate Democrats that finally resulted in ...
Dems’ Reconciliation Package Obscures Obamacare’s Failures With Taxpayer Cash
WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 07: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gestures, walking out of the … [+] Senate Chamber, celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduct Act at the U.S. C...
Georgia Shows Contrasting Direction Of Federal & State Tax Burdens
Senator Raphael Warnock bumps elbows with Stacey Abrams during a campaign rally with U.S. … [+] President-elect Joe Biden (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty Images While Congress is gett...