Energy
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Biden administration approves summer E15 gas sales in midwestern states
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and other state officials have fought for year-round sales of E15 gasoline. The Biden administration agreed to allow Iowa and seven other states to sell the cheaper blend in the summer months beginning in 2025.
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Half the attorneys general in the U.S. file a legal challenge to Biden’s EV mandate
Nearly half of Americans in a recent Gallup poll said they wouldn’t purchase an EV, and Ford has lost nearly $5 billion on its EV lines last year.
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California court considers solar subsidies as excess solar drives panel shutoffs
Even with these changes, the CPUC says California’s solar metering program will cost customers without solar an estimated $6.5 billion in 2024, a figure that has doubled from 2021; 15% of the average non-solar household’s energy bill goes towards rooftop solar payments.
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Alaskan Natives say Biden’s war on the state’s oil and gas industry ignores their objections
The Biden administration plans to limit future oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Indigenous Alaskans say they aren't being consulted or included in the rule-making process.
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House Republicans introduce joint resolution to overturn Biden’s methane rule
Rule intended to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry
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Oregon irrigation district receives federal tax money to build floating solar panels
The irrigation district aims to have floating photovoltaic solar panels on the main canal of the Deschutes project located near Bend.
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Washington Farm Bureau: California green train mandate ‘entirely unworkable’
Last year, CARB voted in favor of a new rule requiring zero-emission train purchases would also force railroads to prematurely retire 25,000 diesel-powered trains, as the rule prohibits trains 23-years or older from operating in the state.
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Saving whales started as left-wing cause, but now conservatives are taking up the fight
While the media and environmental groups claim there's no connection between the uptick in whale deaths and offshore wind developments, groups like the Heartland Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and the National Legal and Policy Center are taking the matter to court.
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Americans face rising gas prices again
Overall, gas prices have risen about 50% since President Joe Biden took office.
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Government watchdog says funds for decommissioning nuclear facilities are being mismanaged
Curtis Schube, director of the Council to Modernize Government, said it’s important that these don’t become legacy facilities that sit around for decades, being unattended and potentially creating a danger to the public.
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Following the solar eclipse, EV owners waited in long lines to charge before heading home
A family in Vermont waited four hours to charge their car before returning home to Massachusetts, and a woman who traveled from Utah to Arkansas waited two hours to charge her EV.
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Groups request access to whale protection plan for offshore wind project
Just a couple weeks after the suit was filed, a right whale was discovered dead about 50 miles off the Virginia coast, the “fourth documented North Atlantic right whale death in U.S. waters this year,” according to the Heartland Institute
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Utility company aims to amend measure that prohibits disconnects for non payment
The bill now says after customers turn in documentation proving he or she is applying for financial assistance, the electric or gas company has to provide a 75-day grace period where they don’t disconnect the power.