Jobs Success. Looks like the job board is a hit with the readers. If you keep the postings coming, we will keep posting them. Have a great weekend!
Presidential Climate Rankings. A report card for presidential candidates’ climate plans is out and not all are created equal. The report is also quite transparent on how people fared. The democratic leader, Joe Biden, is ranked at the bottom of the list with a D+ but we still expect to see more details on the plan. Many talking heads are saying that climate change is an issue that touches people’s hearts and minds but will not affect their voting, Biden in the lead is exhibit A. Inslee barely making the first debate is exhibit B.
What Biden Should Do. Biden’s team is floating VP names early in the process for various political reasons. What the former VP should do is announce his team for clean energy policy right now and it should include names that you and I would find familiar. Announce Inslee as the EPA Administrator or David Crane as Secretary of Energy, that would make this an interesting conversation.
Solar And Coal Have A Baby. A small modular reactor is born! The fantasy is highlighted by the NEI CEO in the Bloomberg interview and it’s as crazy and unrealistic as solar partnering with coal. Also, the sun not shining and wind not blowing isn’t the best argument anymore.
DOE PR Agents. Exporting US molecules of freedom is the most insane sentence I’ve read.
- Grist: The presidential candidates just received their climate report cards
- Vox: What’s Joe Biden going to do on climate change? Look at his record under Obama.
- Bloomberg: The Nuclear of Tomorrow Will Be Smaller – Nuclear Energy Institute CEO
- Axios: Energy Department faces blowback for calling LNG exports “freedom gas”
- Think Progress: Chevron’s two-faced approach to electric cars
- PV-Tech: US bills to accelerate storage ‘well designed’ but delays still expected
- Greentech Media: A Facebook First – Tech Giant Invests Directly in a Renewable Project
- Utility Dive: Ohio House approves nuclear, coal subsidies, ditches renewables mandate
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Yann