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Sunday, April 02, 2023
The Department of Agriculture is trying to help rural communities reduce energy bills and impacts to climate by investing $464 million to enhance renewable energy infrastructure, officials said Thursday.
With solar and wind power systems getting cheaper and coal prices steadily rising, America's rural areas are, often with the help of grants, loans, and tax breaks, getting in step with the global pursuit of renewable power.
I think there is a fairly large contingent of journalists covering climate or agriculture or both who think we could stop climate change with a single admission by a major farm organization that the only logical reaction to increasing atmospheric carbon is abject terror.
Funds are available to rebuild infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Florence through the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service in South Carolina.
The cost of building some renewable energy generators is down, according to a data analysis released this week by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
The Energy Department (DOE) is making $19 million available to support 12 new cost-shared research projects focused on batteries and vehicle electrification technologies to enable extreme fast charging.
The California Assembly’s natural Resources Committee voted 6-3 to advance a proposed bill that eyes ways to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in residential and non-residential buildings.
As plug-in electric vehicles gain in popularity, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory considers the strain home-charging may place on the electrical grid.
Consistent pricing ensures that natural gas will continue to dominate as the American fuel of choice through the next two years, the Energy Information Agency says.
