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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally. The capacity factors for nuclear, natural gas, coal, and wind in Texas during the four days of load shedding during the cold snap were 79 percent, 55 percent, 58 percent, and 14 percent, respectively. [7]

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Pushed by the powerful farm lobby, state and congressional legislators have displayed scant interest in fixing big holes and outright waivers for farms in the federal water quality law.

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Biden’s Economic Recovery Path: How Budget Reconciliation Plays a Role in Passing $3.5 Trillion in Relief

Arnold Porter

107-16); Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (P.L. which was President Biden’s first major legislative vehicle providing relief to Americans in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Importantly, reconciliation legislation is limited to spending and revenue provisions and must therefore originate in the House.

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