Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-195-september.html
RESISTANCE
The Green New Deal.
Marian Starkey. POPULATION CONNECTION.
BIG WIRES ACT. CCL. Jan Schaper.
Arkansas ACCL. Ft. Smith Seminar.
The IDEA OF A GREEN NEW DEAL inspires the world. These two short books you might want to add to your library.
Stan Cox. The Green New Deal.
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin. Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal.
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Since the BIG WIRES Act to deploy more solar and wind energy was introduced last year, CCL has been behind it as a great next step in the push for clean energy permitting reform. A new paper out this week from the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research reveals exactly how great these policy changes really would be.
On the low end, the paper estimates that “BIG WIRES would save $330 million per year due to the lower energy costs associated with being able to deploy more solar and wind energy,” CCL Research Coordinator Dana Nuccitelli explains in a CCL Community post. If America steps up and makes a serious effort to deploy clean energy, the potential savings are even greater — $2.5 billion per year!
And when it comes to carbon pollution, the results are just as encouraging. “The paper estimates that BIG WIRES would reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 73 million metric tons of CO2 per year compared to the status quo. That’s a 5.5% reduction in our emissions,” Dana explains.
The study also confirms that the BIG WIRES Act would reduce power outages during extreme weather. Using models of Winter Storm Elliott in 2022, the authors “found that BIG WIRES would have reduced the number of homes that lost power in this storm from 4.7 million to 2.1 million – a 58% reduction in blackouts.”
Passing this legislation, Dana says, would be “an impressive win-win-win scenario!”
See Dana’s post about the study,
| Registration is now open for the October 4th River Valley Green Energy and Education Seminar, which will be held at the UAFS Center for Economic Development in Fort Smith’s Bakery District. This full day, upbeat gathering will give you the latest on sustainability advancements, potential, and plans from the angle of the City of Fort Smith – a winner of the recently announced EPA Climate Pollution Reeducation Grants, statewide workforce development and business leaders, community groups, the University of Arkansas Fort Smith, local faith leaders and regional educators. |
Jan Schaper, Administrator & Program Director
The Arkansas Citizens’ Climate League, 2610 W Hackett Rd, Hackett, AR 72937