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Gas Plants Have a Real Climate Problem. So Do Some Proposed Approaches for Addressing It. 

Union of Concerned Scientists

One scope is the narrow carbon picture , the one that you’ll hear about most readily: what these approaches mean in terms of how much carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) comes out of a gas plant’s smokestack, or how much less a plant can be said to be emitting.

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Trump’s Pick for Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, is Wrong on Purpose. Here are the Facts. 

Union of Concerned Scientists

While Wright acknowledges the reality of climate change, he deliberately misrepresents climate data and research to downplay the seriousness of the problem and to undermine proven solutions including transitioning away from fossil fuels and accelerating the transition to clean energy. Carbon pollution is pollution.

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Promoting Coal, Trump Looks Backward

Circle of Blue

In China we found the Central Government building new clean energy plants to quadruple wind and solar generation. Stoked by billions more tons of carbon emissions from coal combustion, global temperatures are rising, more powerful storms are inundating communities, deeper droughts threaten the planet’s supply of food.

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Trump’s Earth Day Purge

Circle of Blue

The administration eliminated USAID, which brought to a close the extensive international conservation programs that protected endangered species, battled poaching and illegal fishing, and provided millions of people clean water and safe sanitation. They also are helping the U.S.

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Investment Models for Climate Infrastructure Implementation

Legal Planet

This month’s federal budget and policy legislation rescinded billions of dollars in clean energy and climate-related infrastructure investments and halted the progress of many projects already underway, including major tax incentive and grant programs focused on wind and solar energy, vehicle electrification, and domestic manufacturing.

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What’s at Stake in the Budget Reconciliation Process (And What You Can Do About It)

Union of Concerned Scientists

This short-term calculus poses a dire threat to numerous UCS priorities, from clean energy, to electric vehicles, to sustainable agriculture, to climate resilience, to reducing the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Tax credits supporting the clean energy transition. Grants and loans supporting the clean energy transition.

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Gov. Shapiro Highlights Environmental Protection, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Public Lands, Recreation Accomplishments In First 2 Years

PA Environment Daily

Shapiro recently highlighted his administration's accomplishments in his first two years in office, including on environmental protection, accountability, climate change, clean energy, public lands and recreation issues.