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Energy and Climate Report
June 20, 2017-Number 118
Climate Change NYC Planners with Sandy Nightmares Say Barrier May Come Too Late The warming Atlantic Ocean has raised the risk of another Hurricane Sandy. And still, trillions of dollars of real estate and infrastructure near the shores of New York City and northern New Jersey remain vulnerable to devastation.
EPA Wore Research Office Science Advisers' Terms Lapse
The Environmental Protection Agency in August will let go dozens more scientists who advise the agency's Office of Research and Development on its priorities and cancel all of the board's subcommittee meetings in 2017, according to a letter obtained by Bloomberg BNA.
Emergency Response Trump's Emergency Manager Earns Support of Climate Advocates Brock Long was cleared by the Senate to become President Donald Trump's emergency management director June 20 after gaining the support of one unlikely constituency: environmentalists.
Energy Court Upholds Plant Performance Rule in Largest U.S. Power Grid A U.S. appeals court found that the power plant performance standard in PJM Interconnection's annual forward capacity auction is proper, according to a recent opinion.
Energy Energy Department Grid Study Expected by Month's End, Perry Says The Department of Energy's highly anticipated study on the U.S. power grid and how it can help coal and nuclear power "should be" available by the end of the month, Energy Secretary Rick Perry said June 20.
Energy
Green Groups Critical Ahead
np Power Grid Report
Critics aren't waiting for opening night to pan a Trump administration study on the U.S.
power grid they believe will demonize renewable energy while promoting coal and nuclear
generation.
Energy Nuclear Power Tax Credit Extens
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The House passed a bill June 20 that would extend a nuclear power production tax credit pursued by the energy industry.
International Climate U.S. Exit From Climate Pact Triggers Worrit- 'i 1 isparency The U.S. exit from the Paris climate pact raises the prospect that the one nation pushing China, India, and other rapidly developing nations for more transparency in their climate actions won't be co-chairing a panel sorting out those rules.
Oil & Gas
Oil, Gas Revenue Mus
;ed for Conservation, Pa. Court Rules
Revenue generated by oil and gas development on public land may only be used to conserve
and maintain the state's natural resources, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held June 20.
Oil & Gas Zinke Preparing to Reshape Interior Through Personnel A hiring freeze the Interior Department instituted for staff in the Washington and Denver metropolitan areas is a first step toward its shrinking middle and upper management and shifting more personnel into local and state offices, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said June 20.
Pipeline Safety Pipeline Agency Says It Won't Enforce Obama Gas Storage Regs Regulations for natural gas storage sites put in place after the Aliso Canyon natural gas leak won't be enforced, PHMSA announced.
Radioactive Waste Interim Waste Storage Possible at Yucca Mountain: Perry Energy Secretary Rick Perry isn't only eyeing Yucca Mountain for permanent nuclear waste storage.
Renewable Energy Brazil Bank Approves $312 Million in Loans for Wind Farms The Brazilian Development Bank approved 1.04 billion reais ($312 million) in low-cost financing for three utilities to develop wind complexes that will generate enough energy to power 700,000 homes.
Renewable Energy Lyon Group Plans $501 Million Australia Solar, Storage Project Lyon Group will build a A$660 million ($501 million) solar and battery storage project in the Nowingi district of Victoria by January 2018 combining a 250-megawatt solar-power station with 160 megawatt-hours of storage, according to a June 20 statement.
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