The 470-mile-long Greenlink West transmission line could cut across a Nevada national monument that preserves the fossils of long-extinct species like the
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The combined impact of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 marks the first time that the full financial might of the federal government is aligned behind the transition to clean energy. The wide ranging set of policies in the two acts includes tax credits, grants, rebates, loans, and other financial incentives to make clean energy and other climate solutions cheap, funding for demonstration and improvement of nascent technologies, and industrial policies that will build U.S. supply chains to manufacture components for solar PV and wind turbines, batteries and electric vehicles. But are the new laws sufficient to put the United States on the path to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions? What will the impact of these laws be on the U.S. energy system, greenhouse gas emissions, and clean energy adoption? The REPEAT Project (repeatproject.org), led by Prof. Jesse D. Jenkins (Princeton University Department of Mechanical & Aerospa
Governmental support for environmental initiatives in the U.S. is finally on the cusp of becoming a reality with the passage by the Senate of the Inflation Reduction Bill on Sunday, August 7.