Latest Biden household appliance target: Your water heater
President Joe Biden is eyeing a crackdown on home water heaters — the second-largest energy guzzler in most households — as his newest green policy to save consumers money.
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Manchin touts energy policy as the key to combating blackouts — and boosting Biden’s green agenda
Sen. Joe Manchin III used his perch atop the chamber’s Energy Committee to shine the spotlight Wednesday on a contentious issue that could ease power outages while also jolting the president’s green energy agenda: the fast-tracking of interstate transmission-line projects.
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Rhode Island Energy rejects joint bid for offshore wind project
Rhode Island Energy has rejected a joint bid from offshore wind developers Ørsted and Eversource for an offshore wind project in Rhode Island. The utility company cited “high proposed contract costs” as the reason for rejecting the bid, stating that it would be too expensive…
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Breaking News: Summer is hot!
A brutal heat wave is set to persist Thursday as more than 140 million Americans from coast-to-coast are under heat alerts, with parts of the Northeast expected to sizzle under their highest temperatures this year.
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Winter is coming and the U.S. grid remains vulnerable to power plant failures
From winter storms to sweltering summer heat, there’s a consensus among experts that increasing extreme weather, a shifting electric generation mix, delays in getting new power generation projects connected and the difficulties in getting new transmission lines and other infrastructure built all pose an increasing…
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Hillary Clinton blames ‘MAGA Republicans’ for making it hot outside
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took to Twitter on Tuesday to blast "MAGA Republicans" for the recent summer heat wave hitting communities nationwide.
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Turn out the lights: Incandescent bulb time nearly over as Biden ban takes effect
The incandescent lightbulb that has been used in homes for more than a century is about to become history in the United States.
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‘Battle plan’: How the far right would dismantle climate programs
A coalition of conservative groups has assembled a plan to systematically target most of the federal government’s work on climate and clean energy.
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