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First edition of Surge is out today. Includes:
⚡️My feature asking if electricity is the new oil
💡A conversation with @fbirol
⛏️Carney jabs Trump on critical minerals
🪵An update on my woodpile, which is a lot like European gas storage - running low and behind schedule.
🚨Introducing our Surge newsletter — your new global guide to the rising electricity demand that’s galvanizing industries and power players across the world.
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Is electricity dimming oil’s political power? dlvr.it/TVFNv7
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The state of Vermont is actually going to combust… THREE Olympic medals in two days 😮💨🤯
🥈 Ben Ogden, cross country
🥈 Ryan Cochran-Siegle, alpine
🥉 Paula Moltzan, alpine
Ben Storrow retweeted
Donald Trump has vowed to rescind all "unspent" funds from the IRA. What funds he means remains unclear. And no one—including the White House—has said how many of the climate dollars have actually been spent.
Latest from @kelseytam and me: politi.co/3CrlO3C
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Last month, lobbyists were urging GOP offices to protect Biden green subsidies. In DC, Australian investors met with Hill staffers. Across the country, companies accessing federal incentives hosted R lawmakers part of the House bloc backing the IRA
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"I don’t think the challenge or the need to address global emissions is going to go away... Anything that happens in the short term would just make the longer term that much more challenging.”
Exxon CEO urges Trump to maintain stable climate policy.
politico.com/news/2024/11/12…
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Is limiting the temperature increase to 1.5°C still possible?
It should be a rather easy question to answer, but we all squirm and find it difficult due to the social pressures.
Maybe crossing 1.5°C is the wake up call we need?
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Falsified quality control data. Laid off managers. Suspended workers.
Great reporting by @aelennon1 on continued fallout for Vineyard Wind after blade accident this summer.
Should have kept up with French after high school, but luckily @NewBedfordLight has @ErickTrickey who speaks it. Our latest on the fallout from the blade failure at Vineyard Wind. Last month, we took readers to Cherbourg 🇫🇷; this month, to Quebec 🇨🇦: newbedfordlight.org/troubles…
Ben Storrow retweeted
After a decade-ish I'm leaving energy to cover the Interior Department and NPS. I'm so excited to cover the people and politics of such an important agency and our national parks. But it's bittersweet to leave oil/gas, an industry that defined my career and taught me so much
One of China's biggest solar panel makers built a factory in Texas. It began producing on November 1.
Then Trump won and it announced it was selling.
politico.com/news/2024/11/11…
Last week I wrote about a Chinese solar manufacturer that stood to receive more than a $1 billion from Biden's climate law. This morning the company announced it is selling its new factory in Texas.
Election fallout or just coincidence? Can't say yet.
finance.yahoo.com/news/freyr…
Here's the story from last week politico.com/news/2024/11/01…
Ben Storrow retweeted
After Biden signed the IRA, companies announced plans to build/expand 555 manufacturing facilities, totaling at least $153.4 billion. ~ 230 will begin operations by end of '24, of which half are up & running.
by @kelseytam @Jtblaeser
politico.com/news/2024/11/04…
Last year, the Biden administration cited one of China's largest solar panel makers for evading U.S. tariffs. Now the company is in line to receive more than $1 billion in federal subsidies for a factory it is building in Texas.
politico.com/news/2024/11/01…
Ben Storrow retweeted
A really interesting read from @bstorrow: Chinese companies use Biden’s climate law to expand their solar dominance
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When President Biden signed the IRA, he hoped it would supercharge clean energy, create jobs and reduce America's reliance on Chinese manufacturing.
But what happens if those Chinese companies come to America. Should they get U.S. tax dollars?
eenews.net/articles/chinese-…
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NEW: @Jtblaeser & I looked at how Biden's 'historic' investment in climate resilience is going -- and how a Trump presidency could fundamentally change how programs operate.
The govt has obligated just $10.3B of the $24.4B available.
politico.com/news/2024/10/30…
Upside down in Nevada. Dems concerned about climate change, but fighting solar. Republicans skeptical of EVs, but excited about lithium mining. A swing state in the middle of the energy transition, but where the issue is absent on the campaign trail
politico.com/news/2024/10/29…
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The Eagle #mine in Mich. (the nation's only operating nickel mine) is held up as a benchmark for securing public support.
On-the-ground reporting tells a more complex story:
'They never had a social responsibility license'
In @EENewsUpdates:
eenews.net/articles/deep-in-…
