All posts tagged "Renewable Energy"

The White House keeps undermining an issue that could give way to a rare bipartisan win in Congress, according to a new report.

According to a Saturday article by Politico, permitting reform is an issue that "enjoys wide support" among Republicans and Democrats, but a bipartisan deal is threatened by Trump's "crusade against renewable energy, particularly wind."

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, told Politico that "the administration continues jeopardizing" negotiations for permitting reform because of that crusade....

Nobel laureate and economist Paul Krugman described on Tuesday how President Donald Trump's move to pursue the Iran war at the expense of Americans who now face rising oil prices has made China the real winner.

Krugman wrote in his Substack that Trump's decision could put potential oil and gas shortages on the horizon that ultimately benefit Chinese electrotech.

"Donald Trump wants to stop the renewable energy revolution. But he can’t — it will continue to advance around the world because the economics and the science are compelling," Krugman wrote. "Trump can, however, ensure that the revolution passes us by. And the big geopolitical winner from Trump’s hostility to the energy revolution will be China, which dominates the production of renewable-energy infrastructure."
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An oil baron is fighting renewable energy production by influencing fellow billionaire Donald Trump, a New York Times opinion piece warned Monday.

Fracking pioneer Harold Hamm earned a considerable fortune in fossil fuels and is not willing to watch renewable energy — produced by wind, solar, and hydropower — take a bite out of his profits, according to energy writer Russell Gold. Hamm's privately held company is the 13th-largest oil producer in the United States, raking in $2 billion in profits last year, the article said.

Hamm began his campaign against the "parasitic" wind industry in Oklahoma in 2016, about the same time he endorsed Trump's first presidential campaign. Since then, Hamm "has taken his fight against renewables national — and made a project out of influencing President Trump," the article says....

A relative slowdown in new wind turbine construction in China was offset by big increases in the US, followed by Germany, India and the UK – though renewable energy as a whole has fallen

World's biggest polluter spends £4bn a year on wind and solar power generation in single region as it aims to cut fossil fuel use.