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

Environmental Progress

And, indeed, while wind turbines north of Texas functioned more or less as intended, during the cold snap, they produced very little power for their grids. [11] 11] Part of the reason for inadequate in-state electricity supply in California last August was that state regulators had closed in-state baseload power plants.

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The politics of (bad) policy design: French solar panels and Northern Irish boilers

Environmental Europe

From the abrupt halt to support to photovoltaics in Spain in 2009 to issues with the territorial planning of incentivised wind power in France and Germany (or near Donald Trump’s golf course …) renewable energy policy can prove hard to manage, even (or especially?) when it relies on apparently simple market-based instruments.

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Policy News: July 12, 2021

ESA

White House: A prominent critic of the Trump administration’s scientific policies, Gretchen Goldman, has joined Biden White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management – Request for Interest in Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf.

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ESA Policy News: August 30, 2021

ESA

Feds protect a bumblebee unseen since 2006 – E&E News. Department of Commerce and Kei Koizumi, Chief of Staff at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, in conversation with Stuart Benjamin of Duke Law. Interior keeps slashing royalty rates for coal companies – E&E News. Army: Full environmental review of $9.4B

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Policy News: June 28, 2021

ESA

White House: The Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a request for information to help improve the effectiveness of federal scientific integrity policies. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management – Request for Interest in Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf.

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Trump’s Offshore Wind Ban vs. China’s Wind Juggernaut

Legal Planet

Trumps Arguments Against Offshore Wind Why, you might ask, is Trump so opposed to offshore wind a technology that is not just an essential component of a low-carbon transition but a promising source of new economic growth and a way to compete with China? Wind power would do well in such a comparison with fossil fuel energy.