Emily Pontecorvo
Staff Writer at Heatmap News
Staff writer @heatmap_news | energy & climate | obsessed with buildings | bad at writing emails
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2 days ago |
heatmap.news | Emily Pontecorvo
The House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees tax policy, released its initial proposal to overhaul the nation’s clean energy tax credits on Monday afternoon. These are separate and in addition to the extensive cuts to Inflation Reduction Act grant programs proposed by the Energy and Commerce Committee, Transportation Committee, and Natural Resources Committee in the past few weeks.
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1 week ago |
heatmap.news | Emily Pontecorvo
By all outward appearances, the green hydrogen industry is in a state of arrested development. The hype cycle of project announcements stemming from Biden-era policies crashed after those policies took too long to implement. A number of high profile clean hydrogen projects have fallen apart since the start of the year, and deep uncertainty remains about whether the Trump administration will go to bat for the industry or further cripple it. The picture may not be as bleak as it seems, however.
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1 week ago |
heatmap.news | Emily Pontecorvo
The Trump administration filed lawsuits this week against four states that are pursuing compensation from oil and gas companies for climate change-related damages. But Trump’s separate aim to revoke the government’s “endangerment finding,” the conclusion that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and should therefore be regulated under the Clean Air Act, could directly undercut the legal basis for the suits.
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2 weeks ago |
heatmap.news | Emily Pontecorvo
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee released the first draft of its portion of Trump’s big budget bill on Tuesday, and it includes the first official swipe at the Inflation Reduction Act of the months-long process ahead. Remember, the name of the game for Republicans is to find ways to pay for Trump’s long list of tax cuts.
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2 weeks ago |
heatmap.news | Emily Pontecorvo
Chaos, uncertainty, “we don’t know yet.” These are words I’ve heard more during Donald Trump’s first 100 days back in the White House than I’ve heard at any other time as a reporter. That’s not to say there haven’t already been real-world impacts. Trump has gutted the staff of key agencies dealing with climate policy and science, and shut multiple offices focused on environmental justice.
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Trump and Wright talk about a nuclear renaissance. But so far, every policy proposal coming out of Congress would hurt nuclear: - Gutting the LPO - Phaseout 45U & tech-neutral credits - Ending transferability @robinsonmeyer wrote about this weeks ago: https://t.co/jUE9kVBLjU
Thanks to transferability, developers don't have to enter complex/expensive tax equity deals to claim subsidies. That makes energy cheaper. Due to regulatory constraints, nuclear projects mostly can't even do tax equity deals. Transferability was The Way. https://t.co/2JLSo8Tgq5
RT @AlexCKaufman: This chart by @curious_founder shows where the clean-energy spending from the Inflation Reduction Act was spent. It mostl…
RT @MattZeitlin: My latest for @heatmap_news: how a crippled IRA could leave us more vulnerable to electricity price spikes https://t.co/p9…
