March 30 NEC Energy News
¶ “Minister Galushchenko: Renewable Energy Is A Matter Of National Security” • Since October 10, 2022, Russia has launched numerous missile strikes on Ukraine’s energy objects. At times, Ukrainian nuclear power plants generated enough electricity, but they could not supply it to affected areas. Renewable energy is a matter of security, the energy minister said. [Ukrinform]
¶ “UN Nuclear Watchdog Says Fighting Near Ukraine Power Plant Is ‘Intensifying’” • Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has made a second visit to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine amid an escalation in the fighting around it. [The Guardian]
¶ “Bill Allowing Utilities To Charge Upfront Costs To Build Nuclear Plants Advances In Missouri House” • The repeal ban on utilities billing customers for the upfront costs of building nuclear power facilities, which had been approved by voters nearly fifty years ago, won initial approval from the Missouri House. [Moberly Monitor]
¶ “Crucial Antarctic Ocean Circulation Heading For Collapse If Planet-Warming Pollution Remains High” • Melting ice in the Antarctic is not just raising sea levels but slowing down the deep ocean water circulation with vast implications, a study published in the journal Nature warns. The system collapse could happen before the end of this century. [CNN]
¶ “Senate Passes Bill To Rescind EPA Waterway Rule In Rebuke Of Biden Administration Regulations” • The Senate passed a bill that would rescind a Biden administration policy regulating “waters of the United States.” The bill challenges an EPA rule that is argued to place a burden on farmers by being too restrictive in defining what is a navigable waterway. [CNN]
¶ “EU Reaches Deal On More Ambitious Renewable Energy Targets For 2030” • EU negotiators struck a deal on more ambitious targets to expand the use of renewable energy by 2030, an important pillar of the bloc’s plans to fight climate change and end the use of Russian fossil fuels. The EU will get 42.5% of its energy from renewable sources. [RTE]
¶ “World’s Highest Court Can Set Out Countries’ Climate Obligations After Vanuatu Secures Historic UN Vote” • Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu won a historic vote at the UN that calls on the world’s highest court to establish for the first time the obligations countries have to address the climate crisis and the consequences if they don’t. [CNN]
¶ “Biden Administration Moves Ahead With Massive Gulf Of Mexico Drilling Auction” • Just a few weeks after allowing the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska to go forward, the Interior Department is auctioning off over 73 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico for offshore oil and gas drilling. Joe Manchin made the auction a condition of the Inflation Reduction Act. [CNN]
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