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  1. Sep 2022
    1. As oil drilling technology improves, the physical footprint of the industry is shrinking, Mr. Milito said

      who is still investing in oil drilling technology. cannot believe this is still happening

    1. said now is the time for Utah to evaluate the entire premise of federal ownership of some much land inside the state.

      this is EXACTLY what they've been going for and the culmination of all the attacks. they want to end federal control and return the land to "local" ie state control where they've captured the government, even though true local control is in support of federal protection

    2. State leaders renewed their insistence that congressional action would lead to a more lasting solution and more effective management of these treasured landscapes that are worthy of some protection.

      LMAO they say this because they know the senate wouldn't do anything

    3. “The vast size of the expanded Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments draws unmanageable visitation levels to these lands without providing any of the tools necessary to adequately conserve and protect these resources,”

      how craven. if republicans funded appropriately the agencies designated to protect the land they would be better resourced to protect. Utah state leaders also only wish to open the land up for mining and extractive industries. suing on the basis of reduced protection is comical coming from them.

    1. A surprisingly ideologically diverse coalition

      okay all of the examples are actually moderate to conservative. Ezra Klein's article has been criticized by energy experts for gross overexaggeration of the land needed to build to levels req'd of RE- the acreage cited is the the amount of land that could SEE ren. energy projects - not needed for development.

    1. they really embody this notion that every billionaire is a policy failure.”

      respect

    2. But Mr. Chouinard had no faith that Patagonia would be able to prioritize things like worker well-being and funding climate action as a public company.

      truth

    3. turning Patagonia into a cooperative with the employees as owners, becoming a nonprofit, and even using a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC.

      employees as co-op owners seems like the most Patagonia-esque move - why not?

    4. set in motion a process that would unfold over the past two years,

      highlights how quickly individuals and corporations could shift financial structures if they were motivated

    5. the family irrevocably transferred

      sold? or no profit- are they still billionaires?

    1. there are no dramatic new authorities or structures to make what was impossible yesterday possible tomorrow.

      is this not the focal point of the permitting review (outside of approving the mountain valley pipeline) for Manchin?

    1. erestdetermination by the Secretary of Energy that allows FERC to issue a construction permit.

      except I did not realize the DOE already had a process for "national interest electric transmission". I wonder how FERC's will be different (the FERC bipartisan group of commissioners vs the political party aligned with the Pres at DOE?)

    2. Enhance federal government permitting authority for interstate electric transmission facilities thathave been determined by the Secretary of Energy to be in the national interest

      This seems good!! Similar to NIMBY housing laws, local towns are generally never in support of transmission development close by. With the caveat that burdens should be equitably distributed across demographics and neighborhoods, but I'm not sure how much of a concern this is with the lack of organization and resources in many marginalized communities to oppose development

  2. Aug 2022
    1. In his Nobel speech in 2018, Dr. Nordhaus pegged the “optimal” carbon price — that is, the shared economic burden caused by each ton of emissions — at $43 in 2020.

      Literally everything this man says makes my blood pressure rise. His discount rates are egregious.

    2. Dr. Nordhaus dismissed the criticisms. “They are all subjective and based on selective interpretation of science and economics,” he wrote in an email. “Some people hold these views, as would be expected in any controversial subject, but many others do not.”

      The audacity of Nordhaus to act as if his analysis and interpretation of the most effective ways to combat climate change is objective. His analysis is based on selective interpretation of science and econ TOO!!

    3. And in 2018, Dr. Nordhaus was honored with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

      omg in 2018??? honestly disgusts me

    1. The state would also loan PG&E up to $1.4 billion to cover costs of extending Diablo Canyon’s operating life, with all of the loan potentially “forgivable.” In addition, every customer of a local community choice aggregator or a California investor-owned utility (including Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric) would share responsibility for paying $760 million per year in operating and replacement power costs for Diablo Canyon, which previously recovered all its costs from PG&E customers. In other words, most Californians who don’t get any service from PG&E would see their electricity bills increase to pay the utility to continue running the plant.

      I don't know exactly how this works

    1. Automakers are rightly confident that they will be able to defeat the California law in court. If they can’t, there is a real danger that the industry will persuade Congress to repeal California’s special right to regulate pollution under the Clean Air Act. If that happens, California will lose its power to limit vehicle pollution altogether.

      This did not come to pass and makes me doubtful of their hot-take future prediction

    1. “The Democrats are trying to overturn the Supreme Court’s West Virginia vs. E.P.A. victory,

      lol "overturn" the SC decision as if the SC itself hasn't used the ability of congress to re-legislate issues in response to court decisions as a potential mitigant for harms in those decisions themselves

    1. Supports installation of new customer-sited renewable energy by providing substantial annual bill savings and a 10-year payback period for solar plus storage energy systems.

      "substatial bill savings" while going from Net Metering to Net Billings. Lower costs but still costs monthly

  3. Jul 2022
    1. Plus, electric vehicle tax rebates get a new lease on life, including a new $4,000 subsidy for people buying used EVs, expanding the potential market to drivers on lower incomes.

      why not keep same rebate amount?

    1. The bill grants the water agency the authority to site, construct and operate power facilities wherever it wants, and does not require the agency to comply with existing state or local laws. 

      This seems potentially ill advised given the equity and land use considerations of power projects that DWR might not be tuned into. Is this the statewide DWR or LA DWR?

    1. John Updike’s “A&P,” in which a man watches women and thinks about how hot they are, is a literary classic that is regularly taught in high schools

      excuse me what

    1. Even the soaring cost of gasoline seems to have undermined a central belief of the climate movement: that higher prices for fossil fuels would naturally spark a rush toward more efficient vehicles and alternate energy sources. Instead, gas prices over $5 a gallon produced a bipartisan call for more oil production.

      This is a medium- to long-term expected trend. Not an immediate short-term trend. It would be great and amazing if we saw an immediate shift to electric cars, but they are a significant investment for most families and individuals and thus not expected to be the first line of response to high gas prices.

    2. that may be why climate change remains an issue with little political power

      truly don't think this is true. hard to act on it because the senate is structured in a way to favor minority rule

    3. But an electorate already struggling with inflation, exhausted by Covid and adjusting to tectonic changes like the end to constitutionally protected abortions may give the latest Democratic defeat a resigned shrug.

      i don't think this framing is particularly true. i think it's likely people recognize it as part of a trend of disappointing political results having met already low expectations, but to say that is equivalent to not caring about the disappointment doesn't seem accurate.

    1. The competing systems of power are divided between alternatives which widen the social and political divide — and increase potential for violent conflict.

      From the Clean Energy Finance Forum newsletter. Love to see it

  4. May 2022
    1. The only viable strategy is to simultaneously increase domestic fossil fuel production while driving down oil and gas use at home through investment in clean energy, efficiency and electrification.

      i'm sorry what