"Inside the Republican Attacks on Electric Vehicles"
"President Biden’s new rule cutting emissions from vehicle tailpipes has deepened a partisan battle over automotive technology."
Source: NYTimes, 03/22/2024
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"Gas Industry Blocks Building Codes Meant To Make Going Electric Cheaper"
"The natural gas industry pulled off an 11th-hour victory in its campaign to strip climate-friendly rules out of the latest update to the homebuilding guidelines used in most of the United States."
Source: HuffPost, 03/22/2024
"How A Trump Presidency Could Threaten Biden’s Signature Climate Achievement"
"Democrats’ sweeping Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has fueled significant progress in the fight against climate change since its passage in 2022. But if former President Trump wins back the presidency in November, he’s likely to undermine those gains — or help a Republican Congress do away with the law entirely."
Source: The Hill, 03/21/2024
Merger Puts California's Idle Well Regulations To The Test
"The deal would place 40 percent of California’s idle wells in the hands of one operator. Campaigners warn this poses an “immense” risk to the state — which new rules could help to mitigate, depending on how regulators act."
Source: DeSmog, 03/21/2024
Petrochemicals Are Killing Us, a New Report Warns in Top Medical Journal
"Use of petroleum-based chemicals skyrocketed during the postwar era, most of them entering the market with little concern for safety. Now, mounting evidence links petrochemicals to the rapidly rising prevalence of a slew of chronic and deadly conditions, a review published in the New England Journal of Medicine warned earlier this month."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/21/2024
"Biden Administration Announces Rules Aimed at Expanding Electric Vehicles"
"The Biden administration on Wednesday issued one of the most significant climate regulations in the nation’s history, a rule designed to ensure that the majority of new passenger cars and light trucks sold in the United States are all-electric or hybrids by 2032."
Source: NYTimes, 03/21/2024
"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
"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
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