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Apr 19 2024
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Could Fossil Fuels Re-Elect Biden?
Despite President Biden’s best efforts, U.S. fossil-fuel production continues to grow, and it’s supporting the economy he touts. That’s one notable finding from the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s recent report on state GDP growth in 2023 that is always instructive about regional and industrial economic trends.
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)May 15 2024
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Scientists generate heat over 1,000°C with solar power instead of fossil fuel
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Instead of burning fossil fuels to smelt steel and cook cement, researchers in Switzerland want to use heat from the sun. The proof-of-concept study, published May 15 in the journal Device, uses synthetic quartz to
Tech XploreMay 09 2024
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25 Republican AGs Sue to Upend New Fossil Fuel Plant Carbon Capture Rules
The EPA announced the publication of a final rule on April 25 for new natural gas turbines and existing coal-fired power plants to implement hydrogen co-firing and carbon capture and sequestration/storage (CCS) to lower their output of carbon emissions. The move won praise for President Joe Biden’s administration from environmental groups but prompted alarm from fossil fuel industry allies. On
The Epoch TimesApr 06 2024
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Activist Greta Thunberg arrested while protesting fossil fuel subsidies
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested by Dutch police this weekend as part of a group aiming to block The Hague's A12 highway in a move against the Dutch government's tax concessions for companies connected to the fossil fuel industry, with Shell and the airline KLM among them. According to BBC, Thunberg and the other activists joining her timed their efforts to send a message
SalonApr 24 2024
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‘It’s a transition’: Energy Secretary Granholm defends Biden against calls to block fossil fuel infrastructure
“We know it’s a transition,” said Granholm, responding to a question from Globe reporter Sabrina Shankman. “We know you just can’t stop all fossil fuel production and have people stop driving their cars. It’s just not realistic.” She made her comments during a pre-recorded interview with the Boston Globe that was broadcast Wednesday morning for an event at the Globe’s annual Sustainability
The Boston GlobeApr 16 2024
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Georgia Power gets the green light to add fossil fuels, batteries to meet data center demand
State utility regulators voted Tuesday to allow Georgia Power to add huge amounts of new fossil-fueled power assets and battery storage, mostly to serve the onslaught of energy-intensive data centers and industrial customers heading to Georgia. Georgia Power says serving those large electricity users will put “downward pressure” on rates paid by other customers, many of whom have been dealt
Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionDec 13 2023
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Mixed feelings on COP28 fossil fuels deal
Nearly 200 nations pledged to work toward “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems” in an unprecedented but nonbinding agreement on Tuesday. Although the terms of this year’s accord are stronger than past such pacts, green groups argued that they remain insufficient in a rapidly warming environment. The so-called “First global stocktake” is the outcome of the United Nations
The HillMar 19 2024
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Texas schools pull $8.5 billion from BlackRock over fossil fuel ‘boycott’
Texas’s public schools are pulling out billions of dollars that had been invested with asset manager BlackRock — a firm the state accused of boycotting fossil fuels.
On Tuesday, Aaron Kinsey (R), head of the state board of education, announced that his agency was pulling $8.5 billion out of management by BlackRock.
The company’s “dominant and persistent leadership” in the
The HillApr 09 2024
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West Virginia won't do business with 4 major financial institutions that reportedly 'boycott' fossil-fuel companies
The state of West Virginia will no longer enter into contracts with four major financial institutions that reportedly "boycott" companies affiliated with the fossil-fuel industry, a mainstay of the West Virginian economy. On Monday, Republican state Treasurer Riley Moore, currently running for Congress, announced that the following banking institutions had been added to the state’s Restricted
The BlazeMar 13 2024
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Activists say MainePERS is failing to meet its obligation to divest from fossil fuels
A coalition of youth climate activists and former government employees is calling out the system that oversees how to invest the retirement funds of Maine’s teachers, judges, municipal workers and other public employees, saying it has not done enough to divest its holdings in fossil fuel companies. The group, called Divest Maine, plans to protest a meeting of the Maine Public Employees
Portland Press Herald