White House national economic advisor Lael Brainard said the IRA clean energy tax credits were now the law of the land. Most of Joe Biden’s clean energy tax credits are now law and are unlikely to be reversed by Donald Trump if he wins November’s presidential election, a senior administration official said Friday. The 2022 […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The nation is in the middle of a contentious transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy. It’s a change either hailed by environmentalists for addressing climate change and public health or loathed by the oil and gas industry for killing jobs and being less reliable, efficient and affordable. And what the […]
Continental shelf areas leased for wind power development along the Atlantic coast. Credit: U.S. Department of the Interior, 2024 America’s first large-scale offshore wind farms began sending power to the Northeast in early 2024, but a wave of wind farm project cancellations and rising costs have left many people with doubts about the industry’s future […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Gov. Gavin Newsom said on April 25 that California continued to rapidly add the battery storage that is crucial to the transition to cleaner energy, but admitted it was still not enough to avoid blackouts during heat waves. Standing in the middle of a solar farm in Yolo County, Newsom announced […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The EPA on Thursday announced a series of actions to address pollution from fossil fuel power generators, including a final rule for existing coal-fired and new natural gas-fired plants that will eventually require them to capture 90 percent of their carbon dioxide emissions. The agency said that the rules, which alter […]
Emerging green value chains and the associated production steps, feedstock flows and trade options. Credit: Nature Energy (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01492-z Countries with limited potential for renewables could save up to 20% of costs for green steel and up to 40% for green chemicals from green hydrogen if they relocated their energy-intensive production and would import […]
