U . S . Power

On Monday, several outlets broke the story that the Biden administration is planning to release a plan to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. And even though the rule isn’t public yet, if history is any indication, conservative forces are already getting ready to take the EPA to court.Bees Are Fish Now, I Guess?Last year, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of several plaintiffs, including two coal companies and a group of Republican attorneys general, in a case challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power…

The sun shines above a natural gas-fired electric power generating unit from the 1950s, cooled using a seawater once-through cooling system, at AES Alamitos in Long Beach, California on September 16, 2022.Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP (Getty Images)The White House and the Department of Energy (DOE) are soliciting applications from utility companies, state governments, and tribal nations to create a stronger energy grid. The DOE has announced that it is ready to use $13 billion in funding for the much-neededenergy upgrade.…

A general view of Drax Group Plc’s Coal fired power station on October 09, 2021 in Drax, England. Photo: Dan Kitwood (Getty Images)UK-based “clean” energy company Drax Group is looking to sell offset credits tied to U.S.-based power plants that the company hasn’t even built yet, Bloomberg reports. While the company is being vague about specifics, Drax says its first biomass plant with carbon capture technology is expected to be up and running 2030. The future U.S. power plants that Drax plans to build rely on a type of…

Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s former data guru and campaign manager. Photo: Tom Brenner (Getty Images)Conservative politicians, energy industry groups, Fox News, and think tanks funded by oil and gas donors have answered recent critical coverage of Texas’ power failures with full-throated condemnations of renewable energy. They inaccurately blame rising consumer prices and reduced reliability on green power sources. Beneath that loud braying, though, is a more insidious, less obviously conservative network of websites…

Northern Lights seen from the coast of Scotland in February, 2021.Photo: Peter Summers (Getty Images)If you happen to live on the northern end of the U.S., and you’re not completely engulfed by ambient light pollution, you might be in for a once-in-a-lifetime celestial light show, though a lot of things have to happen to make the aurora borealis, often called the Northern Lights, appear overhead.This disturbance in the night sky is being called by a coronal mass ejection, otherwise known as a CME. These range in severity…