The Southwest Power Pool, the power grid controlling Oklahoma and 13 other states, joined others in raising questions about the impact of a final greenhouse gas emissions rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency. In a recent statement, the SPP “asserts the EPA rule could negatively impact the nation’s ability to provide consumers …
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Brecheen wants EPA study of mail-in chemical abortion drug
Oklahoma Congressman Josh Brecheen recently joined a handful of others in the House and Senate in raising an alarm about the harmful effects of the chemical abortion drug mifepristone. He and Florida Senator Marco Rubio and 9 others mailed a letter to the Michael Regan, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and inquired about …
Rubber plant operators say they’ll close under threat of new EPA emissions rules
Operators of a major synthetic rubber manufacturing plant in Louisiana say they will shut down the plant “likely permanently” if they have to meet the government’s new deadline to reduce emissions. Located in the heart of what’s called “Cancer Alley”because of the high cancer rates among nearby Black residents, the Denka Performance Elastomer plant …
Energy briefs
** The Department of Energy’s “moonshot factory” has announced $150 million in funding to transform the American energy system from the ground up. ARPA-E, the research and development arm of the Energy Department, is looking for “open and audacious ideas” that help to build out “this vision of the energy landscape that doesn’t [yet] exist,” …
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** The Biden administration on Tuesday announced new guidelines for ensuring the integrity of carbon credits or offsets. Individuals, businesses and other entities can buy these credits to try to “offset” their emissions as part of an effort to achieve net-zero. This can entail things like paying organizations toplant trees or prevent them from being cut down. ** ConocoPhillips …
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** As President Joe Biden pushes to accelerate the nation’s transition to clean energy, three Chicago suburbs and more than two dozen other Illinois communities are mulling plans to double down on lung-damaging, climate-changing coal. ** The White House announced steps Tuesday to modernize the country’s aging electric infrastructure.The new initiative between the feds and 21 states …
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** Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) are asking the Justice Department to look into the oil industry’s handling of climate change after their own investigation. ** A group of state financial officers and other public and labor leaders called on Tuesday for major asset managers to vote against top Exxon directors, citing the …
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** The Biden administration said Tuesday it is releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve established after Superstorm Sandy in a bid to lower prices at the pump this summer. The sale, from storage sites in New Jersey and Maine, will be allocated in increments of 100,000 barrels at a time. ** Broad majorities …
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** Wyoming legislators are examining an approach to energy independence and ownership of coal- and natural-gas power plants that would directly pit them against the Biden administration’s policy of ending coal production by 2041. ** Toyota plans $532M expansion to add 411 jobs at its San Antonio manufacturing plant. ** Regional electrical grid operators have …
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** The container ship that caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was refloated at high tide Monday and began slowly moving back to port, guided by several tugboats. Officials have said the Dali will likely remain in the port for a several weeks and undergo temporary repairs before being moved to …