“An EV driver in Georgia called the police on the US Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, after her staff blocked a public charger with a gasoline car to ‘reserve’ it for her upcoming convoy of EVs that she was using to highlight the White House investment in electric vehicles,” Electek reports.
DeSantis Rejects $350 Million in Green Energy Funds
Politico: “The Inflation Reduction Act makes Florida eligible for some $350 million in energy efficiency incentives. But Gov. Ron DeSantis has rejected the funding and other measures, creating the most prominent blockade by any Republican governor against Biden’s economic agenda.”
“And there’s nothing the White House can do besides hope he changes his mind.”
Republicans Seize on Gas Prices
“The late-summer surge in gasoline prices is heightening the risks that inflation poses for President Joe Biden, and offering Republicans a new chance to pin the blame on his green agenda,” Politico reports.
“The GOP narrative has a major hole: U.S. oil production — already the highest in the world — is on track to set a new record this year, and will probably rise even more in 2024. But the ever-increasing flow of U.S. crude has failed to keep a lid on gasoline prices, showing once again that a global market drives the fuel prices that shape presidents’ political futures.”
DeSantis Rejects $377 Million in Federal Energy Funds
“Florida Republican Governor and 2024 presidential contender Ron DeSantis quietly rejected hundreds of millions of dollars in federal energy funding, as the Biden administration touts the benefits of its marquee climate law on the campaign trail in battleground states,” Bloomberg reports.
“The funding, totaling about $377 million, included hundreds of millions of dollars for energy-efficiency rebates and electrification as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, as well as money from the bipartisan infrastructure legislation that became law in 2021.”
Trump to Go After DeSantis on Ethanol
“Donald Trump plans to headline his largest Iowa campaign event in nearly four months with a speech to thousands at an arena in the western part of the state,” the AP reports.
“Trump will use his appearance in Council Bluffs on Friday to attack his top GOP rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, for opposing the federal mandate for ethanol, a renewable fuel additive that Iowa leads the nation in producing.”
Biden’s Hydrogen Bombshell Leaves Europe Behind
Politico: “European leaders have devoted tens of billions of dollars toward encouraging production of hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel that advocates say will create jobs and help fight climate change. But now, many of those jobs will be going to the United States instead.”
“The clean energy subsidies that undergird President Joe Biden’s climate agenda have just prompted one Norwegian manufacturer to choose Michigan, not Europe, as the site of a nearly $500 million factory… and other European-based companies are being tempted to follow suit.”
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Saudi Arabia Seeks to Boost Oil Prices
“Saudi Arabia will cut oil production by 1mn barrels a day in a bid to prop up oil prices, it announced after a fractious meeting of the Opec+ group of producers in Vienna on Sunday,” the Financial Times reports.
U.S. Sues Jim Justice’s Coal Operation Over Unpaid Fines
“The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the coal empire of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice over $5 million in unpaid fines related to health, safety and environmental violations,” the HuffPost reports.
White House Keeps Its Promise to Joe Manchin
Washington Post: “White House officials agreed to include the language to honor a promise they made to Manchin last summer. To secure Manchin’s support for Democrats’ landmark climate law, dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, party leaders agreed to pass a follow-up bill that would speed up the nation’s permitting process for the pipeline and other energy projects.”
“The debt ceiling deal would approve all of the outstanding permits for the Mountain Valley Pipeline within 21 days of the bill’s passage. Environmental lawyers have called this language an extraordinary end-run around the courts, noting that the pipeline has been delayed by a string of legal setbacks.”
CNN: Manchin could get a gas pipeline out of the debt ceiling deal, and environmental advocates are livid.
Biden Vetoes Bill to Restore Solar Tariffs
“President Biden vetoed a resolution that would have restored tariffs on solar panels imported from certain Southeast Asian countries, saying that the resolution would undermine his administration’s efforts to create a strong domestic solar supply chain,” the Washington Post reports.
“The resolution, which passed the House and Senate in bipartisan votes, would have undone a Department of Commerce rule that suspended tariffs on solar panels imported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The rule went into effect in November, after Biden in June had ordered tariffs on solar panels from those Southeast Asian countries waived for two years.”
New York Moves to Ban Natural Gas
“New York has become the first state in the nation to pass a law banning natural gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings, a move that could inspire other states and further erode the residential future of the gas industry,” the Washington Post reports.
Manchin Threatens to Repeal His Own Bill
“West Virginia political observers were not surprised when Sen. Joe Manchin appeared on Fox News on Monday to make a stunning threat: He could be persuaded to vote to repeal his own bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, if the Biden administration pushed him far enough,” CNN reports.
“The conservative Democratic senator reiterated this to CNN, saying he would ‘look for every opportunity to repeal my own bill’ if the administration continued to use the IRA to steer the US quickly towards the clean energy transition and away from fossil fuels.”
Coal Burning Capacity Climbs
“The capacity to burn coal for power went up in 2022 despite global promises to phase down the fuel that’s the biggest source of planet-warming gases in the atmosphere,” the AP reports.
Kamala Harris to Announce Huge Solar Panel Deal
“Vice President Kamala Harris will visit an expanding solar panel factory in northwest Georgia this afternoon where it is expected she will announce an order for millions of Peach State-built panels as she touts how federal climate and economic efforts are combining to create jobs in rural areas,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
California to Require Half of All Trucks Be Electric
“The Biden administration on Friday plans to grant California the legal authority to require that half of all garbage trucks, tractor-trailers, cement mixers and other heavy vehicles sold in the state must be all-electric by 2035, an aggressive plan designed to clean up the worst polluters on the road,” the New York Times reports.
House GOP Pushes Sprawling Energy Bill
“House Republicans are set to approve a sprawling energy package that seeks to undo virtually all of President Joe Biden’s agenda to address climate change,” NBC News reports.
“The massive GOP bill up for a vote Thursday would sharply increase domestic production of oil, natural gas and coal, and ease permitting restrictions that delay pipelines, refineries and other projects. It also would boost production of critical minerals such as lithium, nickel and cobalt that are used in products such as electric vehicles, computers and cellphones.”
U.S. Renewable Electricity Surpassed Coal Last Year
“Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022,” the AP reports.
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