Voters need to understand how energy systems work and what keeps the lights to make informed decisions about how to safely modernize. So, who's coming in to teach the schoolchildren energy literacy? Oil and gas companies, per this molly taft investigation:
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Journalism in 2024, a story (in a 🧵) about chutzpah.

Nine months ago, I wrote a story about what I called the Great Sweetwater Blade Boneyard. It was about a company that promised it would recycle wind turbine blades, but … didn’t.

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A new study shows that anti-abortion laws are linked to an increase in domestic violence deaths.

Enforcement of just one TRAP law is associated with a 3.4% increase in the rate of intimate partner violence-related homicides.
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Polls show that there is a stark Republican-Democratic divide in willingness to buy EVs. But is this reflected in sales -- and is it a new phenomenon or an old one? I dug in for the The Washington Post 🧵

Gotta say, Emily Pontecorvo is on a roll with her EPA power plant rule coverage. The regulation could be a win for the NET Power's Allam cycle CCS gas plant. But the Texas company just admitted in an SEC filing that it's not delivering 'net' power to the grid.
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Strange tweet Alec Stapp. 1. The NRC only started charging fees to cover their budget during Reagan (COBRA Act of 1986) & then the Bush I (1990 Omnibus) required fees to cover 100% of the NRC budget. If we want this to stop, we need to fund the agency.

Good morning from Trump’s hush money trial, where we’ll have live updates HuffPost all day — huffpost.com/entry/donald-t…

NEW: Utilities are increasingly using giant batteries to store solar power generated during the day and use it at night. The latest from brad plumer and Nadja Popovich Link to a free version here: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

China has added more than 34 gigawatts of #nuclearpower capacity over the last ten years.

China's nuclear power fleet as of April 2024:

🔵 55 operating nuclear reactors
🔵 53.2 GW of net capacity

eia.gov/todayinenergy/… #electricity

SCOOP 🚨🚨🚨 THE CITY has learned that Harvey Weinstein is being kept in special VIP room at Bellevue apart from other detainees where he has access to his own phone, TV and watches CNN and talks to his lawyer all day.

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'Congressional Democrats on Monday were set to introduce the Build Green Act, legislation that would invest $500 billion over the next 10 years in addressing the nation’s largest source of greenhouse gas pollution: transportation.' insideclimatenews.org/news/06052024/… by Marianne Lavelle

NEW: Hamas accepts ceasefire deal — putting the ball in Netanyahu's court as the world waits to know if Gaza can get some real relief.

A spokesman for the group tells me it's 'early' to share terms.

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You're here, so your brain almost certainly ingests too many bots and not enough botany.

Well, you're in luck: Zoë Schlanger and I will be discussing her excellent new book THE LIGHT EATERS at Greenlight Bookstore this Thursday at 7:30 p.m. You should come!

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If Iowa can clean up its wind-blade dump, why can't Texas? Same company, same issue, same set of facts.

Where is Texas' environmental regulator? What is it doing?

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Biden wants more nuclear, but reactors are expensive to build and the only way the prices come down is by building.

What utility would go 1st, knowing that going 3rd or 4th will potentially save billions of dollars?

Maybe the utility Biden controls: huffpost.com/entry/tva-nucl…

Exclusive: Fortescue exec chair tells me hydrogen projects “we have across North America will stop” without changes to IRA tax credit rollout

Projects include hydrogen sites in Arizona & Washington state, as well as an auto plant in Detroit

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Star of “The China Syndrome” Michael Douglas, whose film helped drum up fears of atomic energy, now says: “After 40 years of being anti-nuke I have to say I’ve changed my mind.”

Reuters: France would welcome China's electric vehicle giant BYD if the company should it decide wanted to open a factory in France, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Monday.

'France welcomes all industrial projects. BYD and Chinese auto industry are very welcome in France'

*Home insurance policy premiums rose an average of 21 percent between May 2022 and 2023, according to a report by Policygenius, which analyzes industry trends.

'That increase is due in large part to insurance companies paying out for disasters.'
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“New York has four nuclear reactors that produced 22% of the state's electricity in 2023. During the same period, hydroelectric energy generated 23% of the electricity in the state, while wind energy produced 4% and solar energy less than 1%.” timesunion.com/state/article/…