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EPA PLAN FACES DOUBTS ON BOTH SIDES: Some climate groups and fossil fuel interests are singing in the same key about the upcoming EPA greenhouse gas rules for power plants: Carbon capture and sequestration isn’t ready.
But several groups, including coal interests that support CCS in other contexts, are opposing it in practice here as an adequately demonstrated system of emissions reduction under the Clean Air Act. Importantly, pro-carbon management interests have made the argument that those failures had more to do with inadequate federal policy support at the time the demonstrations were funded and rolled out, something now being righted by new laws, especially the IRA.
Food & Water Watch has an entirely different philosophical position on the technology but has issued similar misgivings about the capacity for carbon capture to clean up the power sector. DEMOCRATS DEMAND WH GIVE MORE SCRUTINY TO LNG PROJECTS: Congressional Democrats want more scrutiny of LNG projects from the White House, which has closely embraced the sector because it is helping meet allies’ energy needs.
The U.S. is now Europe’s top supplier of LNG, thanks to the Biden administration’s endorsement. The Department of Energy has been issuing authorizations to expand LNG exports, most recently with the Alaska LNG project, from existing and future terminals to serve the administration’s goal of raising exports to aid the Europeans in reducing imports from Russia.
UKRAINIANS FLEE ZAPORIZHZHIA AHEAD OF PLANNED COUNTEROFFENSIVE: Hundreds of Ukrainian civilians began fleeing areas near the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant this weekend amid renewed fears of violence and danger as Ukraine readies to launch a counteroffensive to regain the lost territory.
Speaking to reporters over the weekend, Grossi described conditions as growing “increasingly unpredictable and potentially dangerous” near Zaporizhzhia as military activity increases, and noted that IAEA personnel stationed at the plant are now hearing shelling on a regular basis. A refresher: “Prop K,” as it was known, had set deeply ambitious targets for renewable energy in El Paso, calling for 80% of the city’s power to be generated by “clean renewable energy” by 2030, and 100% by 2045. It also would have created a new city-wide climate department in El Paso, tasked with preparing an annual climate mitigation, preparedness, and response plan, and overseeing the transition of all city-owned facilities to renewable energy sources.
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