Category: clean energy

Californians Paying the Price for State’s Energy Policies on Cap-and-Trade: Critics

Critics of California’s cap-and-trade program, implemented 10 years ago with a goal of limiting carbon emissions, say it is increasing the cost of energy in the state while failing to fulfill its mission, as well as endangering vulnerable communities in the process. The program limits the amount of carbon produced by companies and requires those…


IN-DEPTH: ‘Sacrifice on the Altar of Green Energy’: Commercial Fishing Industry Faces Extinction if Offshore Wind Turbine Development Continues

Advocates warn that what’s at stake if developers and their foreign investors succeed in constructing offshore wind turbines along the east coast is a crucial food source and a rich cultural heritage preserved among fishermen. “Generations of fishermen could be sacrificed on the altar of green energy,” Meghan Lapp told The Epoch Times. Lapp is…


IN-DEPTH: ‘Sacrificed on the Altar of Green Energy’: Commercial Fishing Industry Faces Extinction If Offshore Wind Turbine Development Continues

Advocates warn that what’s at stake if developers and their foreign investors succeed in constructing offshore wind turbines along the east coast is a crucial food source and a rich cultural heritage preserved among fishermen. “Generations of fishermen could be sacrificed on the altar of green energy,” Meghan Lapp told The Epoch Times. Lapp is…


California Unlikely to Run Short of Electricity This Summer Thanks to Storms, New Power Sources

RICHMOND, Calif.—California regulators say the state is unlikely to run out of electricity this summer because of a big increase in power storage and a wet winter that filled the state’s reservoirs enough to restart hydroelectric power plants that were dormant during the drought. The nation’s most populous state normally has more than enough electricity…


Biden Admin Identifies Key Areas in Clean Energy Acceleration Roadmap

The Department of Energy (DOE) identified three targeted areas in a clean energy technologies roadmap. In a series of “Pathways to Commercial Liftoff” reports released on March 21, the Biden administration listed clean hydrogen, long-duration energy storage, and advanced nuclear as the key technologies to attain Biden’s emission elimination plan. The Biden administration wants to…


Diverse Coalition of Groups Backs Infrastructure Permitting Reforms

A diverse coalition of American organizations has signed a letter organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce—the leading business lobbying organization in the United States—urging reforms to the infrastructure permitting process. “Today, the single biggest obstacle to building the infrastructure of the future is a broken permitting system,” reads the letter, which was published on…


If Government Wants More ‘Clean Energy,’ It Needs to Cut Red Tape: Report

A large amount of wind and solar spending approved by Congress last year faces the prospect of getting stuck for years in the permitting process unless the government streamlines the regulations, according to a recent report by the Brookings Institution. “Permitting of renewable energy generation and electric transmission projects in the United States is multi-layered…


Biden Restarts Clean-Energy Makers Tax Credit Program

After receiving a $10 billion boost from the Inflation Reduction Act, the Biden administration is resuming a tax credit for makers of solar panels, wind turbines, fuel cells, and other sustainable energy equipment. The U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have publicized information on the Inflation Reduction…


Biotech, Clean Energy Sectors in China Face Uncertain Future, Insider Says

News Analysis China’s biotechnology and clean energy sectors may be the next targets of U.S. sanctions, according to the president of a high-tech corporation in Japan. Such sectors will probably face a downturn following China’s hard-hit semiconductor industry, the president, who for security reasons only wanted to be identified as Desen, told The Epoch Times…


PREMIERING NOW: What will happen when Trump-era Title 42 border policy ends | The Larry Elder Show | EP. 98

In response to the Supreme Court blocking the lifting of Title 42, which was used by the Trump administration to declare a medical emergency to prevent illegal aliens from entering the country, Larry Elder reminds America: it was the Biden administration that filed a lawsuit in order to get title 42 lifted. And during the…