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Global Briefing: EU and US launch Joint Task Force on Energy Security

Business Green

Washington and Brussels team up in support of wide-ranging plan to diversify Europe's sources of LNG, ramp up renewables development, plug methane leaks, and boost energy efficiency. China latest mega-hydropower plant comes online. At an altitude of 3,000 metres it is the highest hydropower project in China.

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Dominion and Virginia Lawmakers Race to Define Clean Energy Goals, Offshore Wind Plans

GreenTechMedia

Dominion’s own emissions-reduction plan pledges to eliminate emissions of carbon dioxide and methane on a net basis by 2050. That’s greater than its previous commitment to reduce net carbon emissions from its power sector by 80 percent by 2050 and methane emissions from its natural-gas operations by 65% by 2030 and 80% by 2040.

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Replace fossil fuels — with more fossil fuels? That’s one major utility’s plan.

DeSmogBlog

Its officials insist that methane burns cleaner than coal, and they echo a common argument in claiming that it provides a tidy bridge between coal and truly renewable energy. If you count hydropower and nuclear as clean energy sources, as the TVA does, that number bumps up to about 50 percent.

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Replace fossil fuels — with more fossil fuels? That’s one major utility’s plan.

DeSmogBlog

Its officials insist that methane burns cleaner than coal, and they echo a common argument in claiming that it provides a tidy bridge between coal and truly renewable energy. If you count hydropower and nuclear as clean energy sources, as the TVA does, that number bumps up to about 50 percent.

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

Business Green

He could have added India's newly strengthened national climate action plan, which includes ambitious emissions goals for 2030, and Australia's sweeping new climate bill, which the new government is rapidly ushering through Parliament. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. of global warming by 2050.