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Tag Archives: DOE
EPA Decision Offers Potential New Pathway for Meeting Vehicle Efficiency, Emission Standards
Yesterday, EPA announced its decision on whether the corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE) and greenhouse gas (GHG) standards adopted by the Obama administration for model year 2022-2025 light vehicles are “appropriate.” Not surprisingly, EPA Chief Scott Pruitt said they are … Continue reading
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Tagged 25x'25, advanced biofuels, Biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, DOE, EPA, fuel standards, sustainability
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Indiana-Based Co-Op Demonstrates Clean Energy Leadership, Foresight
Wabash Valley Power, an electric generation and transmission (G&T) cooperative based in Indianapolis, this week demonstrated clean energy leadership and foresight, signing off on a 30-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to be the sole buyer of electricity from a 99-megawatt … Continue reading
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Tagged 25x'25, anaerobic digestion, bioenergy, Biomass, Congress, distributed generation, DOE, Geothermal, green jobs, investment tax credit, production tax credit, renewable energy, Renewable Portfolio Standards, Solar Energy, sustainability, USDA, Wind Energy, wood to energy
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Reports Underscore Role of Biofuels in Future High-Performance, Low-Carbon Engines
Ethanol advocates and industry leaders received good news last week when DOE officials unveiled two studies, one identifying high-octane blendstocks that could be blended into gasoline for better performance, and the other outlining a new mathematical equation that quantifies the … Continue reading
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Clean Energy Stakeholders Need to Keep Lawmakers Honest on Budget
There’s something unfortunately familiar about the fiscal 2019 budget proposal released by the White House this week: It bears the same draconian cuts to clean energy programs the Trump administration sought last year. The proposal makes even clearer the Trump … Continue reading
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FERC Rejection of Perry ‘Resiliency’ Proposal Renews Focus on Value of Renewables
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reached the right conclusion this week in rejecting a DOE proposal to essentially subsidize money-losing coal-fueled and nuclear power plants. The five-member panel also rendered its decision forcefully, voting unanimously in finding existing market … Continue reading
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DOE Grid Study Exposes Policy Irony
The release late Wednesday night of the long-awaited DOE grid study brought with it some relief for renewable energy advocates. The study, requested by Energy Secretary Rick Perry, verified what the DOE, the department’s national laboratories, academic and the energy … Continue reading
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Congress Must Maintain Commitments Made to a Clean Energy Future
Testimony from Energy Secretary Rick Perry before a House appropriations subcommittee Tuesday did little to ease concerns from clean energy advocates over a Trump administration budget proposal that wreaks havoc on his department’s research programs. Perry insisted that the cuts … Continue reading
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Tagged 25x'25, ARPA-E, bioenergy, Biomass, Congress, Department of Defense, distributed generation, DOE, EERE, energy efficiency, energy security, green jobs, House of Representatives, Hydropower, investment tax credit, national security, NREL, production tax credit, renewable energy, Renewable Portfolio Standards, Senate, Solar Energy, sustainability, wood to energy
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States, Cities, Businesses Will Fill Void Left by U.S. Abdication from Paris Pact
President Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the global climate change agreement marks a disappointing abdication of this nation’s leadership role in meeting the challenges of the very real changing climatic conditions that pose undeniable threats to … Continue reading
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Congress Must Reject White House Budget Plan, Support Rural America
The 25x’25 Alliance joined multiple other energy, farm and rural America advocacy groups Tuesday in expressing our extreme disappointment with President Trump’s budget proposal for fiscal 2018. The spending plan proposed by the White House, however, does not come as … Continue reading
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USDA Re-Organization Must Align with 21st Century U.S. Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue’s plan for reorganizing USDA, which is now subject to a public comment period that ends June 14, would create an under secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, realign department agencies under an under secretary … Continue reading
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