President Biden’s American Climate Corps, aimed at creating green jobs to combat climate change, is shutting down ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration. Launched in 2023 with a goa
Cheap clean hydrogen? Not so fast, energy giants say
According to a new report led by former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and sponsored by some of the nation's largest energy companies and a Bill Gates-founded group, billions of dollars in federal subsidies from the Inflation Reduction Act and the bipartisan infrastructure law may not make "clean" hydrogen a commercially viable fuel. The analysis disputes the premise that low-carbon hydrogen will soon be a cheap fuel source for polluting sectors and suggests that the federal government must do more to make it a viable product. The researchers assessed the cost of manufacturing hydrogen while keeping life-cycle emissions within standards. Current climate legislation limits clean hydrogen to 4 kilos of carbon emissions per kilogram. Environmental justice organizations have opposed policies that promote "blue" hydrogen, generated from natural gas and carbon capture. EFI included blue hydrogen synthesis in its relevant processes. The analysis said that tax credits would greatly reduce hydrogen prices, but they would not be enough to persuade power plants, oil refiners, ammonia and steel makers to switch to low-carbon fuels. Pipeline watchdogs warn combining hydrogen and natural gas in gas pipes would endanger public safety.
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares for a second term, state-level climate initiatives are poised to counteract federal rollbacks. States like California, bolstered by the U.
The Center for Microgrid Research at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, not to be confused with the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, is expanding its efforts to
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UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera has called for fundamental reforms to the global climate regime, criticizing the current system as ineffective and dominated by misinformation
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Elon Musk, alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under President-elect Donald Trump. Tasked with cutting $2 trillion in federal spend