Assoc. Director and Sr. Policy Analyst, Frontier Group, part of @TPINNetwork. Transport, energy and climate policy, mostly.
Boston, MA
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Our 8th annual State of Renewable Energy dashboard w/@EnvAm is live! Check out how your state ranks in adoption of wind, solar, electric vehicles and more. frontiergroup.org/resources/…
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hinojosa and bottoms, both who have explicitly pushed for moratoriums, getting elected sort of negates this idea that most voters don't want data center moratoriums
Not exactly (or at least not intentionally). What I think is that:
1. Data centers are generally unpopular.
2. This is not a top voting issue for most voters.
3. Voters want regulations, but aren't demanding a ban or moratorium.
4. Moratoriums kick the can on data center policy and don't solve anything.
5. Sensible regulations similar to what Shapiro and Spanberger announced make sense and should serve as a model for federal lawmakers.
6. The playbook I linked to is really good, and everyone should check it out!
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So the 41 datacenter moratoria across the country are, I predict, going to go 41-0. In nearly every case it's about 67-80% opposing datacenters. True in California, Ohio, everywhere. Read all the results here:
dashboard-production-c2fc.up…
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Ohio's Senate race saw datacenters become a big issue. Just check out the current status of the reporting Ohio ballot measures. 80-20 against datacenters, universally.
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"There’s the reality of years of underreporting, lack of enforcement and really just this open secret that illegal dumping of brine on Pennsylvania roadways has been happening at a pretty broad scale,” said Shannon Smith, executive director of FracTracker. “So how long do we want to keep being overly generous to DEP about the lack of getting a regulatory framework together?”
Pennsylvania issued a new type of permit that could make it easier for oil and gas companies to dump toxic wastewater on roadways.
insideclimatenews.org/news/3…
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if the "climate case" for BAAJA is to make the U.S. more like TX, it's a case against the bill, not for it.
TX is one of the top 10 states for per-capita CO2 emissions from energy use and has cut emissions more slowly than the U.S. as a whole since 2015. eia.gov/environment/emission…
The climate case for the permitting reform bill is simple: Making all energy infrastructure easier to build will enable renewables to flourish — and erode fossil fuels' market share.
And we have good reason to believe that's true — it's called Texas.
vox.com/politics/508196/perm…
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Meanwhile, the shale boom in west Texas has led to widespread environmental damage and risks to water resources. frontiergroup.org/articles/m…
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AND, as we noted a couple of weeks ago, Texas accounts for more than 1/3 of all planned grid-connected natural gas capacity in the U.S. as well as significant off-grid buildout. frontiergroup.org/resources/…
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RFF has power sector CO2 emissions -- which has been THE sources of progress in recent decades -- rising through 2040
Resources For the Future has released its modeling on the Senate permitting bill.
Top findings:
- Increase transmission capacity by 30% by 2041
- Would facilitate 60GW of clean energy in 2028
- Reduce carbon emissions by 1.8 gigatonnes through 2041
rff.org/publications/issue-b…
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This RFF analysis seems typical of the modeling, which is that IF you look only at the power sector, IF you assume rapidly growing demand and IF you take the permit certainty provisions at face value, you get a modest CO2 reduction vs. a rising baseline. rff.org/publications/issue-b…
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There are some assumptions here that are open to question, but at least the RFF team is transparent about them.
At the end of the day, though, those who have said this is not climate policy are correct. A scenario that leaves power sector emissions - which have long ...
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But I just want to note that the same people now expressing suspicion about the modeled results of the bill are quite comfy with modeled results when it suits them. This is why, again, all modeling is bad.
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Tapping the sign. Tappity-tap-tap.
Two things can be true:
1) BAAJA is unmodelable and people who purport to model its climate impacts are either guessing or trying to sell you something.
2) The modeling that's come out on certain supposedly pro-climate changes resulting from BAAJA is underwhelming ...
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Most of this isn't controversial. In conjuction with the administration's efforts to eliminate national monuments, repeal the roadless rule, etc., BAAJA would allow extractive activity on lands that have been, of late, protected, w/rubber stamp enviro review & little recourse.
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SCOOP: Former Biden senior climate advisor John Podesta said senators should renegotiate the bipartisan permitting deal & he believes the bill’s permit certainty language hands Trump a “loaded Howitzer” to go after public lands.
For @heatmap_news
heatmap.news/politics/john-p…
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Ford's $28,350 Ford Fathom EV pickup will come with onboard power conversion tech that will slash the cost of setting it up as a home backup battery. Will other automakers join Ford and Tesla in pursuing AC V2H? And will utilities let them plug in?
canarymedia.com/articles/ele…
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