Brad Plumer
Reporter, NYT Climate at The New York Times
Reporter at @nytclimate. email: [email protected] signal: bradplumer.54
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1 week ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Catie Edmondson |Margot Sanger-Katz |Tony Romm |Brad Plumer
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Monday released legislation that would cut Medicaid far more aggressively than would the House-passed bill to deliver President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda, while also salvaging or slowing the elimination of some clean-energy tax credits, setting up a fight over their party’s marquee policy package.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Lisa Friedman |Brad Plumer
Climate advocates, Democrats, and even some House Republicans who last month had supported a tax package that gutted federal support for clean energy were hoping the Senate would make fixes to protect energy manufacturing and jobs. But on Monday, Senate Republicans disappointed them, proposing to quickly end most tax breaks for wind and solar power, electric vehicles and other clean energy.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Catie Edmondson |Margot Sanger-Katz |Tony Romm |Brad Plumer
Senate Republicans on Monday released legislation that would cut Medicaid far more aggressively than would the House-passed bill to deliver President Trump’s domestic agenda, while also salvaging or slowing the elimination of some clean-energy tax credits, setting up a fight over their party’s marquee policy package.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Brad Plumer
“This sets us back,” said Ben Airth, policy director for Freedom Forever, one of the country’s largest residential solar installers. “I’ve been in this industry 22 years and remember when it was only rich people, doomsday preppers and environmentalists installing solar panels on their roofs.”One analysis by Ohm Analytics, an energy data firm, estimates that residential solar installations could fall by half next year if the House bill becomes law.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Brad Plumer
Federal tax breaks have fueled a boom. The House bill would end that immediately. Over the past two decades, more than 5 million U.S. households from California to Georgia to Maine have put solar panels on their roofs, drawing energy from the sun and reducing their electric bills. But that could soon come to a crashing halt.
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More than 300 workers at the National Nuclear Security Administration were told they were fired on Thursday. Now at least some of them are getting contacted and told to please come back to their jobs: https://t.co/lWz3SPzgaF
NYT has openings for two climate reporter positions — descriptions/how to apply at the links: 1) Climate policy reporter: https://t.co/xLCzXivSe3 2) Climate adaptation reporter: https://t.co/ypqqKWFOXR
Desalination for drinking water is surprisingly affordable. Desalination for agriculture probably doesn't make a ton of economic sense apart from some high-value crops. Really interesting post by @_HannahRitchie https://t.co/qo6XkUe9sO