Really good piece from Alexander Kaufman on the TVA, and what's getting in the way of building out more nuclear power huffpost.com/entry/tva-nucl…

Washington state's most ambitious climate policy, a carbon market locally known as 'cap and invest', launched last year & requires big polluters to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions.

It's also at risk of repeal in November. 🧵1/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Tesla's identity crisis is hardcore heatmap.news/electric-vehic…

“What needs to be replaced, for whom, and by when? It’s a lot more concrete than it seems,' — Emily Grubert on helping communities through an impending coal transition.

Read more from Emily Pontecorvo below:

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Coal is already on the way out. The real potential of the new EPA power plant rules, re: coal, is to bring about a more orderly — and potentially less painful — exit. I tried to understand where the Biden admin is and isn't helping on that front. heatmap.news/economy/biden-…

not just power plants, there's transmission news too! money for a line from idaho to nevada (and thus california), and clearing out regulatory barriers for upgrading existing lines heatmap.news/sparks/biden-p…

Also relevant

I wrote about the new EPA power plant rules and what they could mean for all the new natural gas plants utilities have been proposing recently
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'This is the first federal mandate to curb carbon from the electricity sector since President Obama’s 2015 Clean Power Plan, which never went into effect.'

The EPA just dropped new power plant emissions rules, Emily Pontecorvo reports:

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🚨Some ~heatmap~ news!

Wait you can't even earn miles on a Delta basic economy flight any more? That's insane

RIP Hot News

Is there anyone out there who thinks signing up with an energy service company for renewable power does anything? Is there any case where you would recommend it?

If a company has a direct stake in selling carbon removal & operates a marketplace in which they're incentivized to maximize deal volume, should they also be the party vetting quality/reliability? Or is there an inherent conflict there?

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Much as California and other progressive states like to think they've killed coal, it's not dead yet. Coal plants still help light up many of the American West's biggest cities, including Los Angeles.

Here's a map by my Los Angeles Times colleague Sean Greene:

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The U.S. just made permitting easier for geothermal, but as Matthew Zeitlin reports, the industry let out a half-hearted 'woo' and urged Congress to clear more permitting hurdles heatmap.news/politics/geoth…

Climeworks built trust pioneering permanent, measurable, direct air capture. Now its entering the crowded field of brokerages bundling 'high quality' carbon removal credits from a range of projects.
Big qs: What is quality, and is there enough of it? heatmap.news/technology/cli…

A new national lab survey shows broad support for solar projects from people who live within three miles. But beyond that topline, it gets complicated. My story:
insideclimatenews.org/news/16042024/… Sarah Mills Berkeley Lab

We’ve been through the AI-will-devour-electricity hype cycle before. I wrote about it for Heatmap News — and the risks of panicking about AI’s energy use:

“Emissions are a vanity metric. They tell you little about what a company is actually doing to invest in decarbonization”
Interesting piece on new ways to assess climate-related risk and corporate climate progress ft.com/content/6e8224…