Joe Manchin has made a pretty good living from the coal industry. For decades, he has reaped enormous profits from a company he founded that sells gob — a particularly dirty kind of coal left over from mining operations — to the very few thermal generating plants that still burn … [continued]
The IRS is working on rules to implement the Section 45V tax credit for green hydrogen. Lots of people want to help it do its job.
The Senator from West Virginia’s coal country accuses the Biden Administration of elevating “climate goals above the energy and national security of this nation.” Every time he perceives such a move, Manchin says he will refuse to vote for a Biden nominee.
The Mountain Valley Pipeline saga is not over, but the writing is on the wall for the US natural gas industry in West Virginia and elsewhere.
“There is something significantly wrong with the Mountain Valley Pipeline if its supporters think the only way it can be permitted and built is to exempt it from the Natural Gas Act, NEPA, the Clean Water Act, the Mineral Leasing Act and the Endangered Species Act.
Tigercomm has produced a brilliant report on “the physics of U.S. politics” and the clean energy industry. I was going to write about the report, but Tigercomm President Mike Casey’s own writing is so good that hacking it up and summarizing it didn’t seem sensible. (I guess Mike has had … [continued]
The power of the renewable energy lobby in Arizona will be tested as the US Senate (finally) votes on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
The Energy Department is planning on 100% renewable energy now, Inflation Reduction Act or not.
The legislation which will come up for a vote in Congress very soon all but ensures that the fossil fuel industry will maintain current oil and gas production levels without any change for the next decade.
The on-again, off-again climate bill is back, now that West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin is on board, for now.
