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  • Google’s Dominance Is Fueled By Zambia-Size Amounts Of Electricity

    The antitrust lawsuit filed yesterday against Google GOOG +2.4% by the U.S. Justice Department and 11 states, is a landmark in the effort to restrain the power of the world’s biggest technology companies…

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  • Energy Policy Should Unite, Not Divide, America

    Policymakers must work to ensure that decarbonization doesn’t harm low- and middle-income Americans.

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  • GENERATING EQUITY: Improving Clean Energy Access & Affordability

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  • California Assemblyman Says State’s Push For Electric Vehicles Fuels ‘Environmental Racism’

    The sharpest criticism of California’s policies on electric vehicles and climate change isn’t coming from Republicans or groups funded by the oil and gas business. Instead, it’s coming…

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  • Daniel Yergin’s ‘New Map’ Explains Why South China Sea Is A Flashpoint

    Book reviews are the literary equivalent of visiting a buffet line that features 30 different dishes, but only being allowed to fill one small soup bowl, with no second helpings. There’s no good way…

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  • The Trillion-Dollar Reason Why Joe Biden Won’t Ban Fracking

    Electoral and energy realities caught up with Joe Biden last week. On Monday, in a speech in Pittsburgh, the Democratic presidential nominee said “I am not banning fracking…

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  • Nuclear Plants In Illinois Are Slated For Closure. Will The State’s Democratic Politicians Save Them?

    Last month, the Democratic Party came out in favor of nuclear energy for the first time in five decades. The party’s platform said the “urgent need” to decarbonize the electric grid requires…

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  • After 48 Years, Democrats Endorse Nuclear Energy In Platform

    It took five decades, but the Democratic Party has finally changed its stance on nuclear energy. In its recently released party platform, the Democrats say they favor a “technology-neutral” approach…

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  • Blackouts Expose Perils And Costs Of California’s ‘Electrify Everything’ Push

    he blackouts that hit California over the past few days exposed the fragility of one of the most-expensive and least-reliable electric grids in North America…

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  • After Beirut Blast, Lebanon’s Electric Sector Must End Blackouts, Unplug ‘Generator Mafia’

    Preliminary results of the investigation into the blast that leveled much of central Beirut last Tuesday show that the tragedy is due to the government corruption and incompetence that has plagued Lebanon…

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