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One Way to Boost Renewables? Let Flexible Demand Lend a Helping Hand
Flexible demand programs can boost renewables integration at the neighborhood and grid level. Credit: Dennis Schroeder/NRELThe power grid has been designed, operated, and financially oriented around...
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Blowing the Cover Off the “Cleanest Air” Sparkle of the Trump Administration
Photo: samer daboul/PexelsFirst, a fact: People want clean air. And who can blame them—in the United States more than 100,000 people still die from air pollution each year. Notably, the Trump...
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With New Manipulation of Benefit-Cost Analysis, the Trump EPA Attempts to...
Photo: Loco Steve/FlickrNobody reads the fine print. Or that’s the apparent thesis of the Trump administration’s EPA, anyway, in its newly proposed spin on benefit-cost analysis. Here, now, the agency...
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The EPA’s Cost-Benefit Proposal Is Corrupt—And Deeply Consequential. Call It...
Official White House Photo by Tia DufourThis June, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a new rulemaking, Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering...
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With EPA Methane Rollbacks, Natural Gas Bridge Becomes Just Another Piece of...
Jonathan Cutrer/FlickrToday, the EPA is finalizing rollbacks to methane standards governing oil and gas operations, dealing a major blow to climate, public health, and—oh, what’s that?—the fossil fuel...
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Hurricane Laura Threatens Gulf Coast Energy Infrastructure
Hurricane Laura via NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES-East.Hurricane Laura is projected to make landfall as a Category 4 hurricane late tonight along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Conditions will be severe,...
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What’s the Role of Hydrogen in the Clean Energy Transition?
Los Angeles looking from Hollywood at dawn Getty ImagesUpdated 12/11/20 for clarity on fuel cells If you follow energy transition conversations, you may have noticed that hydrogen is having a bit of a...
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New Documents Reveal the Spectacular Unraveling of a Final Trump Polluter...
This is the story of how the Trump EPA’s final attempt at a coal bailout unraveled in spectacular fashion, just weeks before the administration’s clock ran out. This is the story of how the Trump EPA...
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The Texas Power Outages Were A “Wake-Up Call” Only Because Decisionmakers...
Jonathan Cutrer/FlickrThis February, a deep and sustained chill sent the Texas energy system into a week-long torpor, which set off a series of cascading failures that were devastating and deadly in...
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We Have an Infrastructure Plan
Wind turbine blades wind their way by train through Denver. Photo: Department of Energy photo by Dennis Schroeder / NRELInfrastructure Week, meet Infrastructure Plan. Celebrate the yawning gap. The...
View ArticleCongress Must Advance Bold Power Sector Targets
To limit the severity of climate impacts to come, we need ambitious climate goals—and we need ambitious climate actions to match. Right now, we’re long on vision but short on action, leaving us...
View ArticleAPI Jams on the Brakes As Momentum For Methane Action Grows
The top oil and gas industry trade association will do all it can to delay meaningful government action.
View ArticleThe Bar for Climate Ambition is Set by Science, Not Congressional Politics
Without the Clean Electricity Performance Program, it will be harder to meet the nation's climate targets, but it can be done.
View ArticleAs War Rages in Ukraine, Policymakers Must Reject Fossil Fuel Industry Spin
Vladimir Putin’s unjust invasion of Ukraine has resulted in a significant and spiraling humanitarian and security crisis. The epicenter of this crisis is Ukraine, and the staggering costs already...
View ArticleDOE’s New Hydrogen Hubs Program Comes With Risks—And Opportunities
The November 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL, includes an $8 billion “regional clean hydrogen hubs” program that...
View ArticleThe Profound Climate Implications of Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA...
This term, alongside a number of cases with the potential for seismic implications, the Supreme Court also took up West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. Though the case caught fewer...
View ArticleWhy is Congress’s Climate Breakthrough Such a Big Deal? Because Without It,...
This summer, over the course of two short weeks and against the stark and staggering backdrop of climate impacts ricocheting from coast to coast and beyond, our nation’s ability to tackle climate...
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New Global Energy Market Risk: War Pushes Overreliance on US LNG in Path of...
The first half of the Atlantic hurricane season has been unsettlingly quiet, but it’s not over yet—and experts continue to anticipate a busy few months to come. Beyond the widespread and catastrophic...
View ArticleWithout Sufficient Guardrails, the Hydrogen Tax Credit Could Increase Emissions
Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a clean hydrogen production tax credit (known as “45V”) that is one of a slew of new incentives intended to help catalyze the next and necessary...
View ArticleEPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Are Critical—and Complex. Here’s What to Know,...
All across the country, coal- and gas-fired power plants are still running, still polluting, and still showing signs of staying relentlessly online. And more gas is slated to come. This is despite the...
View ArticleBiomethane Threatens to Upend the Clean Hydrogen Tax Credit
The Inflation Reduction Act’s new hydrogen production tax credit, known as code 45V, is intended to incentivize a shift to low-carbon hydrogen production by offering producers a credit that increases...
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Proposed Electrolyzer Requirements for the Hydrogen Tax Credit: Strengths and...
In late December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations for the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit. The tax credit, passed as part...
View ArticleThe Serious Risks Around Treatment of Biomethane in 45V
In December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations governing implementation of the 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit, passed as part of 2022’s Inflation...
View ArticleUCS Testimony on the Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit
From March 25 to March 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury is hosting a public hearing on the December 2023 proposed regulations governing implementation of the Section 45V Credit for...
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