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ComEd’s Favorable Regulatory Treatment for Grid Investments Comes Under Fire

GreenTechMedia

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO.

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Feds Move Forward with New Mexico Drilling Plan Despite Community Outcry

DeSmogBlog

Whichever update the BLM and BIA choose will have to take account of an array of competing goals. BLM spokesperson Jillian Aragon declined interview requests for this article, saying that the agency isn’t commenting on pending policies while management in Washington, D.C., is still in transition.

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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

DonorsTrust gave the group nearly $8 million between 2008 and 2017, according to federal tax data. Hard-won federal policies like the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act put that target within reach. He is a retired real-estate investor who has been involved in an impressive array of local energy fights over the past 15 years.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

Barring any late Congressional dramas, President Joe Biden could sign the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law before the week is out, triggering a multi-billion dollar green investment bonanza that promises to drastically accelerate US emissions reduction efforts. Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said.

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From Climate Exhortation to Climate Execution

Mosaic

And even getting new construction to go electric is a trial—as attorney general, Healey had no choice but to rule that state law prohibited town ordinances from banning gas hookups in new buildings. But the law also gives “big amounts of discretion” to the state’s Utilities Commission, and their plan remains unclear.