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In this State Headliners, the power grid chief is set to back a carbon tax, and feds approve Vermont Yankee sale.
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is warning that the dire costs of climate change are going to be here sooner than we think. Oh, yeah, and the solution is to tear down the global free-enterprise system.
Climate change activist Bill McKibben said many Vermonters don’t believe manmade climate change is real, and probably never will. However, he said the 70 percent who do believe must organize and force government to act.
A new report from the United Nations says now is the last chance for the world to take immediate action to stop climate change. These are all the other times climate watchers have said that.
“It is a wonder that a state like Florida, which will get pummeled by Michael, could vote for someone that denies climate change,” John Abraham wrote.
Electric car drivers use the roads and they should help pay for them. They can pay at the charging station, or they can pay an annual mileage tax at inspection or point of sale, but either way they should pay like the rest of us.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is updating a regulation that will raise gas prices 36 cents a gallon by 2030, and diesel by 44 cents, according to the agency’s staff. Californians already pay an average of $3.73 a gallon for gas.
Promoted as a way to wean Americans off their alleged addiction to oil, both federal and state governments have generous handouts for electric vehicles. Consumers can use up to $7,500 of other peoples’ money to buy an electric vehicle.
“Allowing foreign nationals to participate in the fellowships is inconsistent with the EPA practice of awarding fellowships to U.S. citizens, which is required for the EPA’s directly awarded fellowships,” OIG reported Wednesday.
In what could be a sign of the oil industry’s evolving approach to climate change regulation, Shell has opted not to campaign against a ballot initiative in Washington that calls for the implementation of a carbon tax.
Higher renewable energy mandates, however, typically mean higher electricity costs. States with higher-than-average renewable portfolio standards, like Hawaii and Connecticut, also top the list as the most expensive states in terms of electricity prices.