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Renewable natural gas is crucial to diversify our clean energy sources

Renewable Energy World

David Cox, Founder and CFO of the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas. The power outages in Texas are an all too painful reminder how extreme weather events can expose weaknesses in our energy infrastructure. One crucial green energy source that we should be capitalizing on is renewable natural gas (RNG).

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

DeSmogBlog

In order for the Biden administration to hit its goal of a 100 percent clean power grid by 2035, the nation needs to rapidly increase the rate of new wind and solar power installations. Since 2011, the whales’ deaths—largely from ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear—have outpaced births.

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Texas repeatedly failed to protect its power grid against extreme weather

Grist

Its generators failed more than a dozen times in 12 hours, helping to bring the state’s electric grid to the brink of collapse. In the earlier cold snap, the grid was pushed to the limit and rolling blackouts swept the state, spurring an angry legislature to order a study of what went wrong.