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TRICKY POLITICS FOR SOLAR CRA RESOLUTION: House Ways and Means will take up the chamber’s next Congressional Review Act resolution this week, which is expected to ultimately bring another bipartisan reprimand of President Joe Biden for his solar energy emergency — this one with an even wider margin than the ESG or WOTUS resolutions.
The Biden administration has expressed support for breaking the reliance on Chinese manufacturing and building more things at home, although Biden’s use of emergency trade powers at issue in the resolution was premised on the need for a “bridge” to keep solar cells and modules flowing while manufacturing capacity expands domestically.
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The price crisis: The communique opened its gas investment section with a recognition that high prices challenged the globe last year, especially developing nations, and helped drive up coal consumption and strengthen its viability despite initiatives to phase it out. “They're trying to hold a hand out to developing countries and say both that we think you need to do more to raise your ambition … and we’re willing to help you with some financing support, with technology cooperation,” Meyer told Jeremy.
But the U.S. delegation is not ready to put a firm date on things just yet, Meyer noted, without knowing it can follow through. For one, there are questions about the extent of the administration’s legal authorities. Energy security as a concern is “being exaggerated in some cases,” he said, the bigger problem being emissions.
Conservative Prime Minister Marcus Soder had been critical of the government’s decision to retire the plants and wants to keep the plant functional. The long-shot effort would require authorization from the federal government, which the environment ministry has already rejected. Granhom said Japan’s turnabout on nuclear shows the generation source’s merits to be part of national energy strategies. Japan’s target is to raise nuclear to make up 25% of the nation’s generation mix by 2030.
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