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However, several analyses—including a recent one by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)—have concluded that the IRA, even when coupled with the bipartisan infrastructure act and other federal and state climate policies, will not be enough to meet US carbonemission reduction goals. Energy efficiency also plays a critical role.
Batteries can also be used to assist with peak electricity demand; currently instead of batteries, fossilfuel-powered “peaker plants” are often used to supply energy during high-demand periods. Despite being used infrequently, these plants are inefficient and highly polluting, and contribute to US carbonemissions.
Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossilfuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.
New California legislation will require corporations to disclose their carbonemissions. Windpower costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. Cheaper renewable energy attracts private investment and makes limits on fossilfuels more feasible. In short, we’re seeing something like a slimmed-down Green New Deal.
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This much-needed set of 18 projects will improve electricity reliability, address overloaded wires , and help unlock more lower-cost wind and solar power to replace costly, polluting fossilfuel plants in Michigan and many other states in the Midwest (including Illinois and Minnesota ). Source: MISO.
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The results include two developers cancelling their offshore windpower contracts with states and utilities, another cancelling two projects altogether, and hesitation elsewhere. The good news-bad news balance, though, would seem to tip decidedly in favor of a whole lot more offshore wind.
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Offshore wind cuts power plant pollution Harnessing abundant offshore wind can bring real benefits for cutting pollution and improving public health. The use of fossilfuels in the power sector, via gas, coal, and oil plants, is a major source of pollutants that harm people and communities.
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A recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study shows that it would take less than 1 percent of the land in the Lower 48—that’s an area comparable to or even smaller than the fossilfuel industry’s current footprint.
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trillion budget resolution is to make significant investment in tackling the climate crisis in US history and put the country on a path to meet President Biden’s climate change goals of 80% clean electricity and 50% economy-wide carbonemissions reductions by 2030. It would place a fee on carbon-intensive goods imported from abroad.
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