Happy Friday and welcome to October! A fast 5 for you today.
1. Axios Today talks about OPEC+ oil cuts, gas prices, and electric cars
Oct 6, 2022
2. Sen. Manchin ends push for faster energy project permit process, easing path for spending bill
By Kevin Freking, PBS News Hour, September 27, 2022
“The most contentious piece of the legislation was Manchin’s plan to streamline the permitting process for energy projects and make it easier for a pipeline project in his home state and Virginia to proceed.
Manchin in a statement confirmed he had asked Schumer to remove the permitting language from the bill. He said he was holding to his belief that ‘we should never come to the brink of a government shutdown over politics.’
‘It is unfortunate that members of the United States Senate are allowing politics to put the energy security of our nation at risk,’ Manchin said.”
3. Can an "All of the Above Approach" to Decarbonization Work?
"All of the Abundance" at Ecomodernism 2022, a panel hosted by The Breakthrough Institute
“Today, with cheaper renewables, amidst more prominent catastrophist sentiment around climate risk, and farther along the coal-to-gas bridge, one might think the usefulness of this approach had come to an end. And yet, as revealed by the recently advanced Inflation Reduction Act and the Biden Administration’s backsliding on fossil energy restrictions, ‘all-of-the-above’ is still the modus operandi in Washington. What should we make of this?”
Featuring:
Arnab Datta, Senior Counsel, Employ America
Avrind Ravikumar, Research Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin
Liza Reed, Research Manager, Low Carbon Technology Policy, Niskanen Center
Matthew Yglesias, Journalist, Slow Boring
4. Renewables On The Rise Dashboard
October 4, 2022
This data visualization tool “allows you to track the growth of clean energy as it happens in your state and around the country.” It’s both aesthetic, granular (numbers-based), and Tweetable! We recommend checking it out.
5. The Climate Economy Is About to Explode
By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, October 5, 2022
Late last month, analysts at the investment bank Credit Suisse published a research note about America’s new climate law that went nearly unnoticed. The Inflation Reduction Act, the bank argued, is even more important than has been recognized so far: The IRA will “will have a profound effect across industries in the next decade and beyond” and could ultimately shape the direction of the American economy, the bank said. The report shows how even after the bonanza of climate-bill coverage earlier this year, we’re still only beginning to understand how the law works and what it might mean for the economy.
