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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
It adds Michigan to the growing list of states, including Illinois and Minnesota , that have adopted standards to increase renewable energy on the grid and move toward 100-percent decarbonization of the power sector. The package represents progress on a number of fronts. What’s In the Bills?
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
At the global level, however, Germany has its own claim to a leadership role, particularly in its early support for renewable energy. Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Renewables are 6% of power.
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Legal Planet
MARCH 14, 2024
Cornyn’s Senate website emphasizes expansion of fossil fuel production but also touts Texas as a “trailblazer in renewable energy.” This is part of the cult, or religion, of renewable energy.” John Thune (SD). Lifetime LCV score of 11% (half of Susan Collins’s lifetime score).
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The right-wing approach to energy in this critical 2024 election is straightforward: The U.S. should prop up fossil fuels, constrain renewables wherever possible, and claw back the federal government’s historic investments in clean energy, while reinvesting in nuclear energy and new nuclear weapons.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 21, 2023
The two most popular seem to be nuclear power and carbon capture. Nuclear is endorsed by Ramaswamy, Asa Hutchinson, and Will Hurd. Several of the candidates endorse an “all of the above” strategy, with Hutchinson supporting private development of renewables, Only Francis Suarez and Christie seem to support emission cuts.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 4, 2023
Yaw did not mention renewable energy in this announcement.] Obviously, that doesn't add up quite, but there's a little bit of renewables included in that. “We So it seems to me, and I love it when people say, oh, well by 2035 we're going to have totally clean energy. We didn't have any reliability issues at all.”
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Josh Shapiro “Today, Pennsylvania is positioning itself as the leader of our country’s clean energy future and creating thousands of new, good-paying union jobs. If the current administration and state legislature want to move the state forward, they will focus on creating the renewable energy jobs of the future.”
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