Trump Targets Offshore Wind

Daily Standup Top Stories Trump Vows Day One Executive Order Targeting Offshore Wind May 14, 2024 Mariel Alumit Donald Trump vowed to issue an executive order targeting offshore wind development if he wins a second term as president, making his most explicit threat yet toward the growing industry. The presumptive Republican nominee derided […] New Bloomberg Study […]

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EIA Lowers Price Forecast

Daily Standup Top Stories USA EIA Lowers Brent Oil Price Forecasts May 13, 2024 Mariel Alumit The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) lowered its Brent oil price forecast for 2024 and 2025 in its latest short term energy outlook (STEO), which was released recently. In its May STEO, the EIA projected […] EU Unleashes Sweeping Sanctions Against […]

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25 States Sue Over EPA Plant Rules

Daily Standup Top Stories 25 States Sue EPA Over Unachievable Power Plant Regulations May 11, 2024 Stu Turley West Virginia and Indiana are leading a group of 25 states asking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to declare the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule on coal, natural […] New Climate Reality […]

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Sanctions Don’t Work and Pipelines Matter!

Daily Standup Top Stories Lessons from Texas for California, New York and Other Green Virtue Signaling States May 8, 2024 Mariel Alumit Drops in power generation from wind farms, hydro dams and nuclear reactors has forced the operator of the electric grid in Texas – one of the largest power systems in the United States – […]

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\”Shell\” Games with Carbon Credits

Daily Standup Top Stories Shell sold millions of ‘phantom’ carbon credits May 7, 2024 Stu Turley “Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to CO₂ removal that never took place to Canada’s largest oil sands companies, raising new doubts about a technology seen as crucial to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. As […] U.S. Dept. of Energy To […]

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Blackrock LOVES Oil Now?

Daily Standup Top Stories Replacing a Talen Energy coal-fired power plant with battery storage is infeasible: PJM May 6, 2024 Mariel Alumit An 800-MW, four-hour battery is “not a realistic option” for replacing Talen Energy’s 1,280-MW, coal-fired Brandon Shores power plant near Baltimore, according to the PJM Interconnection. The Sierra Club’s proposed battery storage solution to […]

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Sheffield Gets Khan\’ed!

Daily Standup Top Stories Tesla battery material supplier tops list of human rights abuses for second year in a row May 4, 2024 Stu Turley Tesla buys battery materials from the mining giant with the most allegations of human rights abuses against it in a database of abuses tied to clean energy. Mining company Glencore has […]

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Oil Price DROPS Below $80

Daily Standup Top Stories TotalEnergies considers moving stock listing to New York over favorable oil and gas views in U.S. May 1, 2024 Mariel Alumit (Bloomberg) – TotalEnergies SE is increasingly making noise about moving its stock listing to New York, adding to chatter around European giants potentially being attracted by U.S. investors’ greater enthusiasm for […]

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