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Joined September 2020
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It's your weekly NYT Climate FWD: newsletter, with items on Biden's plan for Pacific wind farms, the dire Western drought, disaster season prep and a shifting view of climate change and hurricanes that shows how science really works. Why not subscribe? nyti.ms/3fKTXfz
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EI's @robbieorvis says the U.S. won't be able to push other countries to adopt strong #ParisAgreement commitments unless it does so itself - pledging a 50% reduction by 2030. (via @Chemnipot) eenews.net/stories/106372829…
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Senate Democrats are retooling energy tax reform legislation that was first proposed two years ago but which failed to advance in a Republican-led Congress. bit.ly/3bKzabv
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The near future of global energy, as seen today in the EU:
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In his first moves as President, Biden will be taking action to protect our Arctic Refuge from drilling & restoring our public lands in the West! This is a massive win — and we thank this administration for hitting the ground running to curb Big Oil! seattletimes.com/nation-worl…
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Keystone XL cancellation: ‘Wake-up call’ for Canada to address oil and gas blind spot climatechangenews.com/2021/0… Joe Biden is set to revoke permits for the controversial Canada-US oil pipeline expansion, putting Justin Trudeau in an awkward position @envirodefence
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We all know we are on the precipice when it comes to climate. Time is up. We can act or regret our hesitation forever. Now, we finally have a government that will respond to the crisis. Let's have no regrets.
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Many experts see geothermal energy as an essential component of the world’s green-energy future because it could provide carbon-free heat and around-the-clock baseload power to compensate for the intermittency of wind and solar. e360.yale.edu/features/can-g…
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I wrote about the latest research by @DrChrisClack, which found that zeroing out greenhouse gas emissions from the electric grid would be $473 billion cheaper with lots of rooftop solar and batteries: latimes.com/environment/news…
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The end of the line for most fossil fuel power plants is closer than you may think. Net metering has been restored in Illinois. And California is set to get the world’s largest virtual power plant. It’s all in the latest Inside Clean Energy. bit.ly/3gykf4C
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“Japan is the creator of the world’s first bullet train and it’s about to get even faster.” 🚅 China and Japan are racing to dominate the future of high-speed rail using maglev technology. @RumiReports takes the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Nagoya. More: trib.al/xhcnrBx
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Banks don't want to lend to Australia's coal miners any more trib.al/kh4FVy7
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Billions have been spent on building infrastructure to support natural gas, but demand is waning decades ahead of expectation. Renewables’ dominance may come as soon as 2028, demolishing the bridge gas was supposed to provide after coal’s demise bloom.bg/3dPFA8D
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With the price of renewables plummeting around the world, the potential for developing countries to “leapfrog” from traditional energy sources, such as wood and charcoal, directly to emissions-free renewables, such as wind and solar has never been greater. bit.ly/31NzYGO
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Update: Denial is STILL not an effective pandemic strategy.
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