Subject: Better Together: How Renewable Energy Tax Incentives and the Clean Power Plan Combine to Transform America’s Electricity System and other news from Dan Lashof, NextGen Climate America
From: Dan Lashof <[email-masked]>
To: Lauren Terrazas <[email-masked]>
Cc: Daniel Lashof <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 12:40:57 -0800
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New analyses released last week predict a robust future for renewable
electricity. The analyses show that the combination of wind and solar tax
credits and implementation of the Clean Power Plan will significantly
accelerate our transition to clean energy. The tax credits, extended in a
bipartisan deal reached at the lend of last year, ensure continued growth
in wind and solar capacity in the near term, while the Clean Power Plan is
essential to sustain that growth and and ensure that we get the biggest
emissions reduction bang for our renewable energy bucks. As they say on
Marketplace, let's do the numbers:

http://NXTGN.US/79g

Speaking of numbers, last year Governor Jerry Brown set a goal of reducing
California's oil consumption 50 percent by 2030. That may sound like an
audacious target given the near monopoly oil currently holds over our
transportation system. A careful look at how it could be achieved, however,
shows that cutting California's petroleum consumption in half is less of a
moon shot than it is the building of a better mousetrap. Building on
California's policy leadership, and taking advantage of technologies now
entering the market, puts the goal is within reach, as Colin Murphy
explains:

http://nxtgn.us/78x

New numbers have also come in on methane emissions, and they are nothing
short of alarming. Direct observation of methane in the atmosphere suggests
that U.S. emissions may have increased by 30 percent over the last decade.
That increase, which is not reflected in the EPA's official emissions
inventory, could have offset more than half of the near-term climate
benefits of the carbon dioxide emission reductions the U.S. has achieved
since 2005. The good news is that we have an opportunity to quickly plug
these leaks. Sara Jordon over at NextGen Climate has the story:

http://NXTGN.US/78p

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