Here’s some exciting news from the number crunchers here at NRDC: Thanks especially to the plummeting costs of solar and wind power, states can cost-effectively cut much more carbon than the EPA originally proposed this June.
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What does every congressman want, besides being re-elected? They want to be seen as job creators. We know economic growth creates jobs (and helps reduce our national debt), so to that end, both parties have traditionally supported pro-growth tax incentives for a wide variety of businesses and industries. And while congress has become more polarized and ideological in recent years, last week’s passage of the tax extenders bill represents a real departure from its traditional bipartisan and pragmatic approach to job creation. How else would you explain a measly two-week extension of the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind?
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Mining is the fourth-largest energy consumer in Australia, using roughly 10 percent of Australia’s total. Some of this comes from the electricity grid — but much is supplied offgrid in the form of diesel and other fossil fuels.
Statkraft AS, Norway’s state-owned power company, said it plans to plow as much as 60 billion kroner ($8.1 billion) into renewable energy around the world in the coming years after the government boosted its funding.
According to the latest “Energy Infrastructure Update” report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Office of Energy Projects, wind energy and solar power combined provided over 70 percent (71.82%) of the 873 megawatts (MW) of new U.S….
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Earlier this month, when EPA proposed a new health-protective air quality standard for the pollutants that form “ozone,” some critics predictably pounced on it as another example of a long string of “job-killing EPA regulations.” Yet last week, we learned that the U.S. economy created about 320,000 new jobs in November, and average wages are starting to rise as the labor market tightens.
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