DALL.E creation by Carolyn Fortuna/CleanTechnica

Historic Funding to Plug Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells

Interior Department Announces Nearly $5 Million from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to Clean Up Legacy Pollution in Missouri Historic funding to plug orphaned oil and gas wells will address environmental and safety hazards, create good-paying jobs in communities across Missouri. WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today … [continued]

DALL.E graphic created by Carolyn Fortuna/CleanTechnica

State Energy Policy in a Land of New Federal Opportunity

Unprecedented new and expanded federal programs have fundamentally shifted the landscape of what’s economically and politically feasible for state policymakers, creating a massive opportunity for states to unlock wide-ranging benefits and attract billions in federal funds and private investment for their residents and businesses. Today, there are more reasons than … [continued]

ChatGPT & DALL-E generated panoramic image visually captures the metaphor of the excessive cost of carbon capture and storage as a Sisyphean task.

CCS Redux: Carbon Capture Is Expensive Because Physics

Carbon capture and sequestration in all of its various ineffective, inefficient and expensive forms is having another run up the hype cycle. Nothing has really changed. The problems still exist. The alternatives are still better. The potential for use is still minuscule. And so, the CCS Redux series, republishing old … [continued]

Image courtesy of Earth Observatory, NASA

EPA’s New Scientific Integrity Policy: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released its updated scientific integrity policy for public comment which will have major consequences for how the EPA conducts and carries out scientific activities, and particularly for how it protects EPA scientists and their work from political interference. Strong scientific integrity protections can prevent egregious attacks on science from occurring … [continued]

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Hot Deal: 50% Off Greenworks Power Tool Bundles (Today Only)

If you’ve been thinking about buying some cordless power tools to add to, replace, or upgrade your existing tool set, then today is the day to get serious and save money, because if you buy one of these cordless tool combo sets from Greenworks, you can get it for literally … [continued]

Projected Zero-Carbon Electricity Growth Highly Dependent On Cost In Parts of Asia

We project low zero-carbon technology costs will drive substantial growth in zero-carbon electricity capacity and generation and limit growth in fossil fuel-fired generation in parts of Asia between 2030 and 2050 in our International Energy Outlook 2023 (IEO2023). In the region we call Other Asia-Pacific (OAS), we project the electric power sector’s CO2 emission … [continued]