"Data Centers, Bitcoin And EVs Send Utilities Scrambling For More Power"
"U.S. energy use has been flat, but bitcoin, data centers and EVs are fueling a spike and threatening climate goals."
Source: Floodlight, 03/20/2024
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"Oil Executives, Meeting in Texas, Cast Doubts on ‘Fantasy’ Energy Transition"
"To some, it felt like the oil executive blurted the quiet part out loud. “We should abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas,” said Amin Nasser, head of what is, by far, the world’s biggest oil producer, Saudi Aramco."
Source: NYTimes, 03/20/2024
"Green Groups Plot Counterattack For GOP ‘Energy Week’"
"As House Republicans gear up for a four-day sprint of hearings and floor debate devoted to undermining President Joe Biden’s environmental agenda, environmental groups are preparing to fight back."
Source: E&E News, 03/20/2024
"Biden Eases EV Rule But Keeps Heat On Automakers"
"The Biden administration released one of several coming car regulations Tuesday, a clean vehicle formula designed to push automakers to build more fuel-efficient or electric vehicles."
Source: E&E News, 03/20/2024
The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but Is Losing Them
"Black Butte is an inactive volcano that rises from the high desert in eastern Oregon. In May 2022, a turboprop plane approached its pine-blanketed slopes, carrying about 10 men wearing bulky Kevlar outfits. They were smokejumpers with the United States Forest Service, the agency that directs the majority of the nation’s efforts to manage wildfires."
Source: ProPublica, 03/19/2024
"Trump’s Violent Language Toward EVs"
"The former president has deployed increasingly aggressive talk about electric vehicles and their effect on the American economy."
Source: NYTimes, 03/19/2024
"How You Should Think About Those Google Flights Pollution Numbers"
"Flight booking platforms are giving customers a new number to think about when they buy a plane ticket: the expected greenhouse gas emissions of their trip."
Source: Washington Post, 03/19/2024
"FBI Sent Several Informants To Standing Rock Protests, Court Documents Show"
"Up to 10 informants managed by the FBI were embedded in anti-pipeline resistance camps near the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation at the height of mass protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016."
Source: Grist, 03/19/2024
"U.S. Approves $500 Million for Bahrain Oil Project, Despite Opposition"
"A federal bank that finances projects overseas voted Thursday to put $500 million toward an oil and gas project in Bahrain, a transaction that critics said was out of step with President Biden’s climate commitments."
Source: NYTimes, 03/19/2024
Clean Electricity? These Are The Overlooked Elected Officials Who Decide.
"On a Tuesday morning in January, college student Aurora Gray stepped up to the podium in a windowless room in Atlanta, around the corner from the state capitol building. In front of her sat a five-member panel of elected officials that oversees how and where nearly every Georgia resident gets their power."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 03/18/2024
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