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National Clean Energy Week Recap

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imports peaked in 2007. biofuels, and fossil fuels. As Dr. Williams pointed out, by reducing domestic fossil fuel consumption and adopting a fuel diversity approach, including zero-carbon fuels and zero-carbon electricity, the U.S. Modeling Pathways to Net Zero: A Case Study on Energy Security as the U.S. As the U.S.

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Public Comment Period Begins on EPA’s Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft)

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a draft document entitled Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft) for public comment. The draft report is responsive to Section 204 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). Bergeson and Carla N.

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EPA Announces Proposed RFS for 2023-2025, Will Hold Public Hearing in January

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The RFS “Set” proposal requests public input on required volumes of biofuel for the next one to three years and on a series of modifications intended to strengthen and expand the program. EPA states that this proposal includes steady growth of biofuels for use in the nation’s fuel supply for 2023 , 2024 , and 2025.

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Federal Water Tap, January 9: EPA Delays PFAS Drinking Water Rules

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An EPA draft report outlines the damage that federal biofuels policy has wrought on land and water. Environmental Impact of Biofuels. An EPA draft report on the environmental impact of the biofuels standard outlines the consequences. President Biden signs three bills related to tribal water rights in Arizona.

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Why Ceding Nuclear to China and Russia Threatens National Security: Michael Shellenberger's Congressional Testimony July 28, 2020

Environmental Progress

The High Cost of Renewables House Democrats propose spending hundreds of billions of public and ratepayer money on renewable energy, new transmission lines, energy efficiency, mass transit, electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, and advanced nuclear energy. Renewables have the same impact everywhere in the world.

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Testimony of Michael D. Shellenberger Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020

Environmental Progress

US electricity sector emissions decreased 34 percent from 2005 to 2019, including an astonishing 10 percent in 2019, which is the largest year-on-year decline in history. Subsidies and mandates for renewables result in higher electricity prices and the net transfer of wealth from lower to upper income citizens.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

The “climate policies” the authors refer to are ones that would make energy more expensive and result in more bioenergy use (the burning of biofuels and biomass), which in turn would increase land scarcity and drive up food costs. 9 (2007): 1962-1979, [link]. [10] 18 (2007): 1778–1786. The IPCC comes to the same conclusion. [74]