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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Cars That Think

government was going to try a whole bunch of different government interventions—incentive programs, tax credits, grants, infrastructure investments—to bend the trajectory of our energy transition. So when Texas got hit by Uri, it couldn’t pull power from New Mexico or Colorado or further away in the Eastern Interconnection.

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EV advocates support a just clean energy transition. The Mining Regulatory Clarity Act is not it.

Plug in America

We urge the subcommittee to reject the highly problematic Mining Regulatory Clarity Act, and instead pursue reforms such as those outlined in the Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act (CEMRA), introduced by Senator Heinrich of New Mexico and Chair Grijalva of Arizona.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Gases: CO 2 emissions.

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