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As she drove across the island to meet with local officials about the opioid crisis, it occurred to her that Puerto Ricans were now suffering at the hands of another set of corporations. Fossil fuel companies had warmed the planet and misled the public about global warming, making billions along the way. It wasn’t so different from what had happened in DePue and Roxana, she thought.Then, she said, God told her to sue Exxon again. – The Holy	Found on New York Times 9 months ago
Some of the biggest national security questions facing the country run through Piketon and Kemmerer, a Post-Soviet dealAmerican reliance on foreign enriched uranium echoes its competitive disadvantages on microchips and the critical minerals used to make electric batteries — two essential components of the global energy transition.But in the case of uranium enrichment, United States once had an advantage and chose to give it up.In the 1950s, as the nuclear era began in earnest, Piketon became the site of one of two enormous enrichment facilities in the Ohio River Valley region, where a process called gaseous diffusion was used.Meanwhile, the Soviet Union developed centrifuges in a secret program, relying on a team of German physicists and engineers captured toward the end of World War II. Its centrifuges proved to be 20 times as energy efficient as gaseous diffusion. By the end of the Cold War, United States and Russia had roughly equal enrichment capacities, but huge differences in the cost of production.In 1993, Washington and Moscow signed an agreement, dubbed Megatons to Megawatts, in which United States purchased and imported much of Russia’s enormous glut of weapons-grade uranium, which United States then downgraded to use in power plants. This provided the U.S. with cheap fuel and Moscow with cash, and was seen as a de-escalatory gesture.But it also destroyed the profitability of America’s inefficient enrichment facilities, which were eventually shuttered. Then, instead of investing in upgraded centrifuges in United States, successive administrations kept buying from Russia.ImageA mural celebrates Piketon’s gaseous diffusion plant, long ago shuttered, and United States role in the local economy.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesImageIn the lobby at Piketon plant, a miniature display of new centrifuges.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesThe centrifuge plant in Piketon, operated by Centrus Energy, occupies a corner of the site of the old gaseous diffusion facility. Building United States to United States full potential would create thousands of jobs, according to Centrus Energy. And it could produce the kinds of enriched uranium needed in both current and new-age nuclear plants.Lacking Piketon’s output, plants like TerraPower’s would have to look to foreign producers, like France, that might be a more politically acceptable and reliable supplier than Russia, but would also be more expensive.TerraPower sees itself as integral to phasing out climate-warming fossil fuels in electricity. Its reactor would include a sodium-based battery that would allow the plant to ramp up electricity production on demand, offsetting fluctuations in wind or solar production elsewhere.It is part of the energy transition that coal-country senators like Mr. Manchin and John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, are keen to fix as they eye nuclear replacements for lost coal jobs and revenue. While Mr. Manchin in particular has complicated the Biden administration’s efforts to quicken the transition away from fossil fuels, he also pushed back against colleagues, mostly Democrats, who are skeptical of nuclear power’s role in that transition, partly because of the radioactive waste it creates. – Jeff Navin	Found on New York Times 10 months ago
There’s nothing in the IRA that required it to be so large, if it goes forward as planned, it’s double the size of Willow. It’s going to lock in fossil fuel development in the Gulf for the next 50 years. – George Torgun	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am very much supportive of transitioning away from fossil fuels and to alternative energies; that process is not going to happen in a snap, and this project is a key piece of transitioning, at least for Alaska. – Mary Peltola	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re incredibly grateful to Mark, Aaron and Shae for rescuing this important specimen and ensuring that it was saved for science, now that the specimen has been studied, plans are in motion for it to go on public display, to spark the imagination of the next generation of fossil hunters. – Dean Lomax	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's an element of at kind of religious fervor against fossil fuels regardless of what the actual impact is, so, therefore, it's viewed as — if it's electric, it's better, and not really looking at it any more deeply than that. – Brent Bennett	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We’re on the side of the whales, all we do is care about the whales, we’re accepting the fact that humans have messed up and climate change is because of us. This is one of the ways we can stop burning fossil fuels; we’re looking at the big picture. – Paul Eidman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Fossil fuel profits are most certainly not powering investments in clean energy, just look at the spending of oil and gas companies and how that’s allocated. – Assaad Razzouk	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Glasgow Climate Pact agreed at COP26 in 2021 by all countries, including the UAE, calls for a cut of 45% in carbon emissions by 2030, this can only be achieved if there is no new investment in fossil fuels and the use of all fossil fuels is phased out as soon as possible. – Mark Maslin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That allows us for the first time to put a number on what Exxon knew, namely that fossil fuel burning was going to hit the planet by 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade. – Geoffrey Supran	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What we’re predicting – if we were to burn all the fossil fuels that we can – it could get as warm, by the end of the century, as the Ice Age was cold. – Gavin Schmidt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
> CompaniesGlencore PLCFollowHSBC Holdings PLCFollowMELBOURNE, Jan 5( Reuters) - International investors with $ 2.2 trillion in assets will ask commodity giant Glencore Plc( GLEN.L) to show how its development of thermal coal mines meets the goals of the Paris climate accord to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees.Glencore is one of the worlds largest producers and traders of the fossil fuel used in power generation and record prices of the commodity helped add some $ 10 billion to its earnings in the six months to June. read more Major institutional investors including Europes Legal and General Investment Management( LGIM) said in a joint statement they have cofiled a shareholder resolution that asks Glencore to reveal how its production and capital expenditure plans align with the Paris goals and the International Energy Agency Net Zero Emissions pathway.Having both invested in and engaged with Glencore over many years, a higher degree of transparency is necessary in order to clarify how the company’s exposure to thermal coal is aligned with the 1.5 C pathway and corresponds to its net zero commitment. – Dror Elkayam	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
In order to quantify those changes in diversity and test hypothesized causes for such change, we compiled a database of every record of Ediacaran fossil occurrences from around the world. – Scott Evans	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There's not much they can do aside from shifting policies and providing more clarity and certainty to the oil sector on the future of oil consumption, oil companies are hesitant to invest in raising production and building new capacity because the administration has openly, openly indicated that it will be pushing Americans away from consuming fossil fuels. And that certainly has an impact on the future viability of the oil sector. And I think that's why we probably won't see much meaningful improvement. – De Haan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Oil companies are hesitant to invest in raising production and building new capacity because the administration has openly, openly indicated that it will be pushing Americans away from consuming fossil fuels. And that certainly has an impact on the future viability of the oil sector. And I think that's why we probably won't see much meaningful improvement. the party of the president traditionally loses seats in midterm elections. High prices at the pump can exacerbate anger at the ‘incumbent’ party. – Scott Huffmon	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Val Hoyle has said that she doesn't believe in any new fossil fuel infrastructure when gas is $5 a gallon in the state, and diesel is about six. She's also voted to raise taxes on hospitals and nursing homes, again, our most vulnerable population. Seniors in the poorest congressional district in the state can afford that the least as well, i think those kinds of baseline economic issues are where you're going to see us separate. I mean, she's appealing pretty much to the Democrats in the district. Her sign even says a Democrat for Congress on it. – Alek Skarlatos	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
One issue here is supply and demand, the second issue here is California's insistence upon moving away from fossil fuels to renewables. – Bill Whalen	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
First of all, let's become energy independent. Let's end the Democrats' war on fossil fuels. – David Ake	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This bill, as currently written, includes a huge giveaway to the fossil fuel industry, it's a slap in the face to the communities fighting to protect themselves from filthy fossil fuels. – Bernie Sanders	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
In principle, we need to get rid of all the fossil fuels, and we need to get rid of them very fast, it's not an immediate solution to anything [ related to ] the Russian gas crisis. – Han Dolman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We need to see the details of this deal, especially if there's permitting reform and development of fossil fuels, we're going to need to see in the coming days modeling on this legislation. – Evergreen Action co-founder Jamal Raad	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The planet already is 1.2 degrees hotter, yet new fossil fuel projects every day accelerate our race towards the precipice. Enough is enough, all new exploration and production of coal, oil, and gas must immediately end, and existing production of fossil fuels must be urgently phased out. – Michael Czerny	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We're all scrambling for solutions, but the breakthrough technologies just haven't come to fruition yet. It appears as though we're trying to bridge the gap with regard to our dependence on fossil fuels, but we're just not there yet. – Bill Fitzpatrick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He's not even about solving inflation because the major driver of inflation was gas prices, and he decided we should invest more in fossil fuels. – Evergreen Action co-founder Jamal Raad	Found on CNN 1 year ago

As she drove across the island to meet with local officials about the opioid crisis, it occurred to her that Puerto Ricans were now suffering at the hands of another set of corporations. Fossil fuel companies had warmed the planet and misled the public about global warming, making billions along the way. It wasn’t so different from what had happened in DePue and Roxana, she thought.Then, she said, God told her to sue Exxon again.

– The Holy

Found on New York Times
9 months ago

Some of the biggest national security questions facing the country run through Piketon and Kemmerer, a Post-Soviet dealAmerican reliance on foreign enriched uranium echoes its competitive disadvantages on microchips and the critical minerals used to make electric batteries — two essential components of the global energy transition.But in the case of uranium enrichment, United States once had an advantage and chose to give it up.In the 1950s, as the nuclear era began in earnest, Piketon became the site of one of two enormous enrichment facilities in the Ohio River Valley region, where a process called gaseous diffusion was used.Meanwhile, the Soviet Union developed centrifuges in a secret program, relying on a team of German physicists and engineers captured toward the end of World War II. Its centrifuges proved to be 20 times as energy efficient as gaseous diffusion. By the end of the Cold War, United States and Russia had roughly equal enrichment capacities, but huge differences in the cost of production.In 1993, Washington and Moscow signed an agreement, dubbed Megatons to Megawatts, in which United States purchased and imported much of Russia’s enormous glut of weapons-grade uranium, which United States then downgraded to use in power plants. This provided the U.S. with cheap fuel and Moscow with cash, and was seen as a de-escalatory gesture.But it also destroyed the profitability of America’s inefficient enrichment facilities, which were eventually shuttered. Then, instead of investing in upgraded centrifuges in United States, successive administrations kept buying from Russia.ImageA mural celebrates Piketon’s gaseous diffusion plant, long ago shuttered, and United States role in the local economy.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesImageIn the lobby at Piketon plant, a miniature display of new centrifuges.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesThe centrifuge plant in Piketon, operated by Centrus Energy, occupies a corner of the site of the old gaseous diffusion facility. Building United States to United States full potential would create thousands of jobs, according to Centrus Energy. And it could produce the kinds of enriched uranium needed in both current and new-age nuclear plants.Lacking Piketon’s output, plants like TerraPower’s would have to look to foreign producers, like France, that might be a more politically acceptable and reliable supplier than Russia, but would also be more expensive.TerraPower sees itself as integral to phasing out climate-warming fossil fuels in electricity. Its reactor would include a sodium-based battery that would allow the plant to ramp up electricity production on demand, offsetting fluctuations in wind or solar production elsewhere.It is part of the energy transition that coal-country senators like Mr. Manchin and John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, are keen to fix as they eye nuclear replacements for lost coal jobs and revenue. While Mr. Manchin in particular has complicated the Biden administration’s efforts to quicken the transition away from fossil fuels, he also pushed back against colleagues, mostly Democrats, who are skeptical of nuclear power’s role in that transition, partly because of the radioactive waste it creates.

– Jeff Navin

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

There’s nothing in the IRA that required it to be so large, if it goes forward as planned, it’s double the size of Willow. It’s going to lock in fossil fuel development in the Gulf for the next 50 years.

– George Torgun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am very much supportive of transitioning away from fossil fuels and to alternative energies; that process is not going to happen in a snap, and this project is a key piece of transitioning, at least for Alaska.

– Mary Peltola

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re incredibly grateful to Mark, Aaron and Shae for rescuing this important specimen and ensuring that it was saved for science, now that the specimen has been studied, plans are in motion for it to go on public display, to spark the imagination of the next generation of fossil hunters.

– Dean Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's an element of at kind of religious fervor against fossil fuels regardless of what the actual impact is, so, therefore, it's viewed as — if it's electric, it's better, and not really looking at it any more deeply than that.

– Brent Bennett

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re on the side of the whales, all we do is care about the whales, we’re accepting the fact that humans have messed up and climate change is because of us. This is one of the ways we can stop burning fossil fuels; we’re looking at the big picture.

– Paul Eidman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Fossil fuel profits are most certainly not powering investments in clean energy, just look at the spending of oil and gas companies and how that’s allocated.

– Assaad Razzouk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Glasgow Climate Pact agreed at COP26 in 2021 by all countries, including the UAE, calls for a cut of 45% in carbon emissions by 2030, this can only be achieved if there is no new investment in fossil fuels and the use of all fossil fuels is phased out as soon as possible.

– Mark Maslin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That allows us for the first time to put a number on what Exxon knew, namely that fossil fuel burning was going to hit the planet by 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade.

– Geoffrey Supran

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we’re predicting – if we were to burn all the fossil fuels that we can – it could get as warm, by the end of the century, as the Ice Age was cold.

– Gavin Schmidt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

> CompaniesGlencore PLCFollowHSBC Holdings PLCFollowMELBOURNE, Jan 5( Reuters) - International investors with $ 2.2 trillion in assets will ask commodity giant Glencore Plc( GLEN.L) to show how its development of thermal coal mines meets the goals of the Paris climate accord to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees.Glencore is one of the worlds largest producers and traders of the fossil fuel used in power generation and record prices of the commodity helped add some $ 10 billion to its earnings in the six months to June. read more Major institutional investors including Europes Legal and General Investment Management( LGIM) said in a joint statement they have cofiled a shareholder resolution that asks Glencore to reveal how its production and capital expenditure plans align with the Paris goals and the International Energy Agency Net Zero Emissions pathway.Having both invested in and engaged with Glencore over many years, a higher degree of transparency is necessary in order to clarify how the company’s exposure to thermal coal is aligned with the 1.5 C pathway and corresponds to its net zero commitment.

– Dror Elkayam

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

In order to quantify those changes in diversity and test hypothesized causes for such change, we compiled a database of every record of Ediacaran fossil occurrences from around the world.

– Scott Evans

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's not much they can do aside from shifting policies and providing more clarity and certainty to the oil sector on the future of oil consumption, oil companies are hesitant to invest in raising production and building new capacity because the administration has openly, openly indicated that it will be pushing Americans away from consuming fossil fuels. And that certainly has an impact on the future viability of the oil sector. And I think that's why we probably won't see much meaningful improvement.

– De Haan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Oil companies are hesitant to invest in raising production and building new capacity because the administration has openly, openly indicated that it will be pushing Americans away from consuming fossil fuels. And that certainly has an impact on the future viability of the oil sector. And I think that's why we probably won't see much meaningful improvement. the party of the president traditionally loses seats in midterm elections. High prices at the pump can exacerbate anger at the ‘incumbent’ party.

– Scott Huffmon

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Val Hoyle has said that she doesn't believe in any new fossil fuel infrastructure when gas is $5 a gallon in the state, and diesel is about six. She's also voted to raise taxes on hospitals and nursing homes, again, our most vulnerable population. Seniors in the poorest congressional district in the state can afford that the least as well, i think those kinds of baseline economic issues are where you're going to see us separate. I mean, she's appealing pretty much to the Democrats in the district. Her sign even says a Democrat for Congress on it.

– Alek Skarlatos

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

One issue here is supply and demand, the second issue here is California's insistence upon moving away from fossil fuels to renewables.

– Bill Whalen

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

First of all, let's become energy independent. Let's end the Democrats' war on fossil fuels.

– David Ake

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This bill, as currently written, includes a huge giveaway to the fossil fuel industry, it's a slap in the face to the communities fighting to protect themselves from filthy fossil fuels.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In principle, we need to get rid of all the fossil fuels, and we need to get rid of them very fast, it's not an immediate solution to anything [ related to ] the Russian gas crisis.

– Han Dolman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need to see the details of this deal, especially if there's permitting reform and development of fossil fuels, we're going to need to see in the coming days modeling on this legislation.

– Evergreen Action co-founder Jamal Raad

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The planet already is 1.2 degrees hotter, yet new fossil fuel projects every day accelerate our race towards the precipice. Enough is enough, all new exploration and production of coal, oil, and gas must immediately end, and existing production of fossil fuels must be urgently phased out.

– Michael Czerny

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're all scrambling for solutions, but the breakthrough technologies just haven't come to fruition yet. It appears as though we're trying to bridge the gap with regard to our dependence on fossil fuels, but we're just not there yet.

– Bill Fitzpatrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He's not even about solving inflation because the major driver of inflation was gas prices, and he decided we should invest more in fossil fuels.

– Evergreen Action co-founder Jamal Raad

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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