The administration's planned energy policies would result in the drilling of 50,000 new oil wells every year for the next few years, ensuring land devastation, soil, and groundwater poisoning due to fossil fuels.
"We've been in active conversations with many pipeline companies, and I feel like we're pretty close to having either one or a consortium come forward," Smith told reporters on Tuesday.
This is an optimistic report. It is possible to meet our carbon budgets for 2030 and 2050, provided we take steps forward [on policy]. It's very important that our country steps up to deliver our commitments.
Without a more structured, longer-term phase-down timeline, developers, manufacturers, and installers will scramble to meet tight deadlines and face a massive drop in demand shortly thereafter.
"This is a ban that we introduce because Russia has weaponised energy against us, because Russia has blackmailed member states in the EU and therefore they are not a trading partner that can be trusted."
The unprecedented blackout that brought the Iberian peninsula to a standstill was caused by surging voltages triggering a chain reaction of disconnections within Spain's power network.
"On a blustery day in mid-May, a herd of cattle grazed against the snow-dusted slopes of the La Sal Mountains... the splintered remains of all the juniper and piñon trees that had been attacked and viciously shredded by a hydromower."
It is alarming that nearly one in four Americans report being unable to pay their full energy bill for at least one month.
That money was spring loaded to flow now, said Javier Rúa Jovet, public policy director for Puerto Rico's Solar and Energy Storage Association. He and others criticized the move.
This case is about precisely the sort of conduct, including concerted efforts to reduce output, which have long been condemned under the antitrust laws.
We've heard nothing from industry about which of those scenarios might happen with the RTS switch-off, and it could be a combination of different issues.