Daily on Energy: Democrats head to the picket lines, Biden wind goals slip, and Schatz backs carbon removal

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DEMOCRATS HEAD TO THE PICKET LINES: Democratic members of Congress are joining auto workers behind the picket lines in solidarity as the UAW begins strikes against the Big Three automakers.

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Stellantis, too, said it was “extremely disappointed” by what it described as the UAW leadership’s “refusal” to engage in talks. “We immediately put the company in contingency mode and will take all the appropriate structural decisions to protect our North American operations,” it said. "The U.S. will not reach the 30 GW by 2030 target," Samantha Woodworth, North American wind analyst at Wood Mackenzie, told Reuters in an email, citing"recent upheaval." The energy research firm estimates 21 GW of offshore wind along U.S. shores in 2030, breaking 30 GW by 2032. More on that here.

In response, PG&E spokeswoman Suzanne Hosn said Diablo has an “excellent” and safe operating record, noting it is among the highest-performing plants in the nation according to the NRC’s own assessment. The Utility Reform Network told the Associated Press that the proposal would raise costs for average residents by between $24 and $28 per month by 2026. “Both proposed decisions adopt substantial and painful increases to monthly bills, far beyond the cost of inflation, which [we believe] should be a cap for bill increases,” Mark Toney, executive director of The Utility Reform Network, told the outlet.

“For more than a century, the internal combustion engine has allowed people to increase their mobility and raise their standard of living,” House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers said on the House floor yesterday. “Restrictive government mandates isn’t how we’re going to lead the next 100 years. Yet that’s what EPA and California are trying to do.” The bill is all but certain to be a nonstarter in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

 

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