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Just Transition Requires More Than Inflation Reduction

Front And Centered

This includes a 15% corporate minimum tax, a stock buyback tax, and a methane leakage tax. The law takes a flawed approach of subsidizing energy corporations as its main thrust instead of investing in energy justice for consumers. The Act also empowers the federal government to negotiate drug prices. Gaping Gaps.

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Crypto Mining at Gas Wells Sparks Regulatory Headaches, Outcry in Northwestern Pennsylvania

DeSmogBlog

Though it has applied for them, the company behind this operation has yet to receive the permits it is required by law to construct or operate the engines to power a cryptocurrency mine. The company is required by law to obtain a plan approval from DEP prior to installation and operation of the air contamination sources,” Decker said.

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How Will the Inflation Reduction Act Support a Clean Energy Transition in Business?

Green Business Bureau

is President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed into law in August 2022. Fossil fuel operations generate over one-third of all methane emissions from human activity. Fossil fuel operations generate over one-third of all methane emissions from human activity. And leading this transition in the U.S.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”.

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RBG left these 4 lessons for the climate fight

GreenBiz

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Our history of redlining has left low-income and minority communities dangerously exposed to extreme heat.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

A growing group of environmentalists, politicians, communities, and even the industry’s own workers have become increasingly critical of the fossil fuel industry, and see room for action under the Biden administration, though most attention has been placed on hot-button topics like climate change and methane emissions.

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RBG left these 4 lessons for the climate fight

AGreenLiving

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Our history of redlining has left low-income and minority communities dangerously exposed to extreme heat.