We look at results from key races and what a divided Congress would mean for a Biden presidency, on this week’s Political Climate. Americans are waiting with bated breath for the results of a long and contentious election. At the time of publication, former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden looks poised to take the White […]
Clean Energy Gets a Surprisingly Big Role in First Presidential Debate
Energy and the environment got more time Tuesday night than in all of 2016’s presidential debates combined. A question on climate change segued into a surprisingly long volley about clean energy and the environment during a combative first presidential debate hosted in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday evening. Nearly an hour into the debate, Fox News’ […]
Indonesia, Timor-Leste to benefit from Green New Deal
More than 20,000 people in rural areas of Indonesia and Timor-Leste will have access to electricity and water thanks to a clean energy project run by Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). KOICA, a foreign aid arm of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said last week it launched the project worth $18 million under the Moon […]
Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan aims to reframe debate
Biden’s proposal on Tuesday didn’t go as far as some measures in the Green New Deal, the sweeping proposal from progressives in Congress that calls for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across the economy by 2030 WILMINGTON: Joe Biden released a $2 trillion plan on Tuesday to boost investment in clean energy and stop all […]
The Green New Deal could radically alter politics, economy and society in the UK
It acknowledges the UK’s central role in fossil fuel extraction, and growth in global migration due to climate change ven as the United Kingdom was busy with the Brexit debate and the millennials of the world were campaigning for climate justice, the Labour Party silently voted in favour of a Green New Deal at the […]
New York Awards 1.7GW of Offshore Wind as Cuomo Signs State’s Green New Deal
Offshore wind developers Ørsted and Equinor will build huge projects to supply power for Long Island and New York City, in what the state calls the largest U.S. renewables procurement in history. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced 1.7 gigawatts of offshore wind deals with two development groups, as he signed into law […]
The Surprising Public Opinion Trends Behind the Green New Deal
This week on The Interchange: how the politics of climate are shifting. Why are national climate politics frozen? The conventional understanding is that Americans are deeply divided on the issue along party lines. Until recently, Democrats have been scared of talking too often about climate in national campaigns because they think the electorate is split; […]
Governor gives behind-the-meter storage a US$55m boost on New York’s Long Island
Funding is to be administered from NYSERDA’s commercial and residential programmes respectively, with the initiative also supporting – and supported by – utility PSEG-LI. Customers in Long Island, New York, that install commercial energy storage systems of up to 5MW and residential solar-plus-storage will be eligible for incentive payments of US$250 per kWh of storage […]
Sanders urges political revolution, Green New Deal support
WASHINGTON (AP): Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont called for a political revolution on Monday night as he and other speakers urged approval of the Green New Deal, a sweeping plan to address climate change. Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, called for an end to all tax breaks and subsidies for the […]
Republicans Craft Climate Plans to Counter Green New Deal
On this week’s Energy Gang podcast, we dissect two conservative counterproposals to the progressive Green New Deal. This week, the Green New Deal is rippling through Washington. A few leading Republicans are responding to the progressive climate plan with some ideas of their own: the New Manhattan Project and the Green Real Deal. They’ve gotten […]