• Health

Coronavirus: Renewable Energy Loses Out in Stimulus

• coronavirus
• COVID-19
• Green Stimulus
• renewable energy
• solar energy
• wind energy

Yesterday, major ideological tensions flared among Senate Democrats and Republicans about what just 12 hours prior seemed to be a solid stimulus package. Despite those roadblocks, there was one clear loser in the $2 trillion relief package: the renewable energy industry. The deal for Senate Republicans taking out a $3 billion provision to buy oil […]

• Politics

McConnell Blasts Dems’ Demand That Latest Stimulus Package Include Green Provisions

• #GreenNewDeal
• Green New Deal
• Green Stimulus
• solar energy
• wind energy

The Senate was unable to agree on a bipartisan stimulus bill yesterday — negotiations apparently stalled because, among other things, the Democrats demanded that bailouts for airlines be conditioned on their lowering their emissions and that tax credits for wind and solar projects be extended.

Why This Matters:  After dragging his feet on immediate economic relief and adjourning the Senate over the weekend ten days ago, now Senator McConnell seems in a big rush to give billions to corporations while leaving workers and the environment out of the deal.

• Energy

DOE Research Shows Massive Benefits of Decarbonization

• decarbonization
• energy efficiency
• fossil fuel
• Green New Deal
• solar energy
• wind power

In 2017, the advanced research arm of the Energy Department (Advanced Research Project Agency of the Department of Energy or ARPA-e) hired the engineering firm Otherlab to review all available energy data sources and create an ultra-high resolution picture of the US energy economy. What they found, as described in a recent article by the lead engineer in Medium, is highly promising — contrary to popular belief, decarbonization is not an unattainable ideal.