Texas has broken the all-time April record with nearly 62GW of demand. Renewables are meeting 48% of demand which is more than gas & coal on this record setting day. There are >26GW of gas & coal plants offline & more than half of those are unplanned outages.
#txlege #txenergy

EPA is considering nixing hydrogen co-firing from its power plant regs for new natural gas plants, per sources. It’s a move that — if finalized — would leave carbon capture & storage as the primary way for gas & coal plants to cut their climate pollution. cnn.com/2024/04/18/cli…

On Episode Two of Shift Key, we posited that the US Offshore Wind industry had hit rock bottom in 2023 and was poised for a rebound. heatmap.news/podcast/shift-…

Today, Ella Nilsen reports that the sector is making a comeback:
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NEW from me & David Folkenflik:

Chevron since 2009 has been building a network of news seeming sites from Ecuador to Richmond, CA to, most recently, the Permian Basin.

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LNG gas exports have lax oversight that experts say could lead to a devastating explosion. Great primer by ⁦Ella Nilsen⁩ cnn.com/2024/03/20/cli…

Since 2020, DCist and WAMU 88.5 have been one newsroom. DCist was the digital home for WAMU stories. In locking the public out of the DCist site, WAMU is erasing WAMU's own work. Can you imagine the Washington Post erasing the past 4 years of its own reporting?

I UPDATED my job list. Thanks to everyone who sent me a #journalism job opening in the past 24 hrs. There are now more than 100 jobs on the list. Plz keep sharing this list to help all those laid off at the LA Times, Univision & Sports Illustrated.
#CallingAllJournalists #Jobs

Montana's going to have more wind power than coal power soon: montanafreepress.org/2023/12/22/win…

Roughly 20 years after the ill-fated Cape Wind project was first proposed, offshore wind off MA's coast is now sending power to the New England grid. Late last night, Vineyard Wind sent 5 MW from 1 turbine to the grid. Sounds small, but it's a big step. bostonglobe.com/2024/01/03/sci…

The Biden administration has finalized new regulations to significantly cut the US oil and gas industry’s emissions of methane, a powerful planet-warming gas, Ella Nilsen
reports cnn.com/2023/12/02/cli…

Biden administration finalized a rule today that it says will cut methane emissions nearly 80% through 2038: cnn.com/2023/12/02/cli… via Ella Nilsen

Nations pledge millions to new climate damage fund at #COP28 , US criticized for its small contribution, via Ella Nilsen & team cnn.com/2023/11/30/cli…

'It began with a law about heat pumps. It ended with stones being thrown at politicians and a surge in popularity for the far right.' Ella Nilsen and I took a look at climate change and the culture wars edition.cnn.com/2023/11/23/cli…

Incredible data analysis by The Desert Sun & ProPublica finds 20 farming families in CA's Imperial Valley use 1.2 million acre-feet of Colorado River water — 1/7th of the entire Lower Basin flow. A single family uses more than the entire city of Las Vegas. desertsun.com/story/news/env…

Biden to announce regional hydrogen hubs in hopes of sparking a clean-energy revolution | ⁦Ella Nilsen⁩ cnn.com/2023/10/13/pol…

Nearly 39 million home & commercial properties are at risk of insurance premium spikes as insurers struggle to cover the cost of rebuilding after disasters, new analysis finds.

More from Ella Nilsen & Krystina Shveda: cnn.com/2023/09/20/bus…