Biden: No reversal of US clean energy advances ahead of Trump presidency | Climate Crisis News

Biden: No reversal of US clean energy advances ahead of Trump presidency | Climate Crisis News

United States President Joe Biden has witnessed the devastation of drought up close as he became the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest, declaring that nobody can reverse “the clean energy revolution that’s under way in America”. His comments come even as the incoming administration of President-elect…

Trump’s transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit in US: Report | Automotive Industry News

Trump’s transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit in US: Report | Automotive Industry News

US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is planning to kill a $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, Reuters news agency has reported, citing two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Ending the tax credit could have grave implications for an already stalling…

Trump’s pick of Lee Zeldin for EPA shows he’s serious about protecting the economy and the environment
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Trump’s pick of Lee Zeldin for EPA shows he’s serious about protecting the economy and the environment

President-elect Donald Trump meant it when he vowed to juice the economy by rolling back needless regulations, and nothing proves that more than his choice of ex-Rep. Lee Zeldin to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Zeldin — who in 2022 came closer to becoming New York governor than any Republican…

Earthquake rocks Cuba as residents struggle to recover from recent storms | Earthquakes News

Earthquake rocks Cuba as residents struggle to recover from recent storms | Earthquakes News

Officials say efforts to assess damage are under way after 6.8-magnitude earthquake hits eastern Cuba. A powerful earthquake has hit eastern Cuba, adding more problems to a country still reeling from a series of recent storms and blackouts. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported on Sunday that a magnitude…

GOP Senate candidate runs on school choice in New Mexico — where reading scores are dead last in the nation
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GOP Senate candidate runs on school choice in New Mexico — where reading scores are dead last in the nation

PHOENIX — Donald Trump’s unexpected rally in Albuquerque, NM, Thursday will bring added attention to the state’s under-the-radar Senate race — and hence to the under-the-radar issue of school choice. Republican hopeful Nella Domenici, daughter of the late Sen. Pete Domenici, is a businesswoman who with her husband runs the state’s…

Electricity finally begins to return in Cuba after multi-day power blackout | Energy News

Electricity finally begins to return in Cuba after multi-day power blackout | Energy News

Electricity is slowly returning to Havana, Cuba’s capital days after a nationwide blackout plunged the country of 10 million into total darkness on Friday, causing the government to close all non-essential workplaces and cancel school classes until Thursday. Power has been restored to almost 90 percent of Havana, according to…

Cuba forced to ‘paralyse economy’ amid desperate energy crisis | Energy News

Cuba forced to ‘paralyse economy’ amid desperate energy crisis | Energy News

Millions of Cubans face 12-hour blackouts per day, but PM Marrero says country ‘not yet in a bottomless abyss’. Cuba’s government has announced it will halt all non-vital state services and businesses for three days as it battles an energy crisis that has caused marathon blackouts for much of the…

Russian attacks on Ukraine power grid probably violate humanitarian law: UN | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russian attacks on Ukraine power grid probably violate humanitarian law: UN | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russian air strikes on Ukraine’s electricity generation, transmission and distribution facilities probably violate international humanitarian law, according to the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU). The report published on Thursday focused on nine waves of attacks between March and August this year. HRMMU said it had visited…

Kathy Hochul may be waking to NY energy woes—yet won’t fix the problem
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Kathy Hochul may be waking to NY energy woes—yet won’t fix the problem

Gov. Hochul may have finally awoken to the state’s looming energy nightmare. Too bad she’s befuddled about how to prevent it. Her energy summit last week was meant to reckon with an inconvenient truth: All the pixie dust in the world won’t help New York meet its goals to abandon…

‘Anti-zionism’, Tim Walz’ weird CCP love: commentary
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‘Anti-zionism’, Tim Walz’ weird CCP love: commentary

From the left: Admit What ‘Anti-Zionism’ Is Progressives have been busily “lionizing and glossing over protesters’ actual beliefs” when it comes to anti-Israel voices at the DNC and on campus, notes New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait — and “the bill for this indulgence is coming due in Chicago.” Remember, these…