** The U.S. is as many as 15 years behind China on developing high-tech nuclear power as Beijing’s state-backed technology approach and extensive financing give it the edge, a report said on Monday. China has 27 nuclear reactors under construction with average construction timelines of about seven years, far faster than other countries, said the study by …
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Energy briefs
** Oil lobbyist groups American Petroleum Institute, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers and the Texas Oil & Gas Association have filed suit over the Biden administration’s efforts to move the country to electric vehicles. They’re challenging the EPA rule to shift new car sales to EVs. ** More than 1,000 diesel-powered cargo trucks — which …
Senators try to block Biden administration’s new power plant rules
Oklahoma U.S. Sens. James Lankford and Markwayne Mullin were among those who stepped up to the plate in fighting the Biden administration’s new EPA regulations intended to shut down American power plants. They filed a Congressional Review Act joint resolution of disapproval. The resolution comes after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its …
Energy briefs
** During a 2.5 hour hearing before Congress, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm maintained UFOs reported around nuclear plants were “drones” but she also admitted her department works with the Joint Special Operations Command, an admission that raised eyebrows. ** Federal regulators have authorized the Mountain Valley Pipeline to begin operating following years of controversy that …
Energy briefs
** A project centered in Utah is being developed to make cleaner ammonia with help from an unlikely source: nuclear energy. It’s a project that, if scaled, could eliminate the more than 1% of global carbon pollution production that is generated from ammonia-making, according to the Innovation News Network. ** Solar accounted for 75% of electricity generation capacity added …
Sen. Mullin takes on Biden’s EPA and new coal ash rules
( Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The latest Oklahoma political leader to take on the Environmental Protection Agency is U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin. This week, he led 10 of his colleagues in introducing a resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s Coal Combustion Residuals final rule that imposes retroactive and what he called “costly and …
Energy briefs
** The global natural gas market is estimated to grow by 50% over the next 5 years, a new Goldman Sachs research paper estimated, as investment in oil becomes less attractive and shifts toward short-term projects. The bank estimated that the United States will lead the market for liquified natural gas supply, and that the added capacity could …
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** Elon Musk’s Tesla is not the only electric vehicle company laying off workers en masse; one of its rivals, Lucid, announced last week that it’s laying off about 400 people, SFGate reports, more than a year after another round of layoffs that saw 1,300 people get the boot. ** An Iowa Republican congressional candidate says the government …
EPA’s emission rule challenged by Oklahoma Attorney General and others
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is taking on the EPA in another fight and this time he has the support of the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality. The Attorney General led a 26-state coalition opposed to the Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules to reduce methane emissions, rules that specifically target the oil and gas …
Energy briefs
** U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Friday called for more nuclear reactors to be built in the United States and worldwide. But the CEO of the Georgia utility that just finished the first two scratch-built American reactors in a generation at a cost of nearly $35 billion says his company isn’t ready to pick …