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Politics

Orsted’s Deep Discounts

On Toyota’s recalls, America’s per-capita emissions, and Sierra Club drama

Politics

Heatmap Poll: Do Americans Blame Trump or Biden for Rising Electricity Prices?

Republicans are more likely to accuse Democrats, and vice versa, but there are also some surprising areas of agreement.

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Climate

Trump Resumes Wind War

On EPA’s CO2 math, the British atom, and Ram’s reversal

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Energy

The EPA’s Backdoor Move to Hobble the Carbon Capture Industry

Why killing a government climate database could essentially gut a tax credit

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Doug Burgum.

Climate Heats Up Transatlantic Tensions

On Hyundai’s ICE delays, Russia’s nuclear hiccup, and China exports its boom

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A data center and a house.

Heatmap Poll: Only 44% of Americans Would Welcome a Data Center Nearby

They are even less popular than clean energy projects, an exclusive Heatmap Pro survey found.

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Trump’s Climate Contrarians Disband

On a copper mega merger, California’s solar canal, and Bahrain’s deep-sea mining bet

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Current conditions: Cooler air is dropping temperatures on the Pacific Coast and Nevada by as much as 20 degrees Fahrenheit • Hurricane Kiko lost intensity and passed north of Hawaii • The volcano Mount Semeru in East Java, Indonesia, is erupting today for the 19th time this week, spewing an ash plume nearly 2,000 feet high.

THE TOP FIVE

1. Trump disbands climate contrarian group

The Trump administration disbanded a group of five climate contrarians brought together to write the Department of Energy’s controversial report challenging the scientific consensus on the severity of climate change, CNN’s Ella Nilsen reported. In a lawsuit last month, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists alleged that the formation of the group of researchers — the University of Alabama’s John Christy and Roy Spencer, the Hoover Institution’s Steven Koonin, Georgia Tech professor emeritus Judith Curry, and Canadian economist Ross McKitrick — violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act’s public disclosure rules by failing to promptly disclose its formation and make its meeting and notes available to the public. The litigation also accused the Trump administration of breaking the law by assembling a government working group deliberately designed to represent a one-sided argument, which is prohibited under the same statute. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright confirmed in a September 3 letter that the group was dissolved. Still, the Energy Department has not retracted its assessment.

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Podcast

Utility Regulation Really Sucks

Rob and Jesse riff on the state of utility regulation in America — and how to fix it.

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Electricity is getting more expensive — and the culprit, in much of the country, is the poles and wires. Since the pandemic, utility spending on the “last mile” part of the power grid has surged, and it seems likely to get worse before it gets better.

How can we fix it? Well, we can start by fixing utility regulation.

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