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      'Tipping Point': IEA Says Surging Renewables to Be World's Top Electricity Source by 2025

      Climate advocates welcomed the forecast—although one expert stressed that the world doesn't need "miracle technologies" or new nuclear power to meet its electricity needs.

      Brett Wilkins
      Feb 09, 2023

      Renewable energy will become the world's number one electricity source by 2025 thanks largely to a surge in wind and solar, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday, a development welcomed by climate advocates.

      The IEA'sElectricity Markets Report 2023states that "renewables are set to dominate the growth of the world's electricity supply over the next three years as together with nuclear power they meet the vast majority of the increase in global demand through to 2025, making significant rises in the power sector's carbon emissions unlikely."

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      Rail cars carrying crude oil are seen on April 24, 2020 near Odessa, Texas.

      Critics Sound Alarm on GOP Plan to Enact Big Oil 'Wish List'

      "To make America truly energy independent, we must break our addiction to oil by expanding the use of clean energy technologies that can lower emissions and energy costs," argued Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette.

      Kenny Stancil
      Feb 08, 2023

      House Republicans held a hearing Tuesday to consider several pieces of Big Oil-friendly legislation that experts warned would exacerbate the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency and leave U.S. consumers with higher energy bills.

      During a joint legislative hearing titled "Unleashing American Energy, Lowering Energy Costs, and Strengthening Supply Chains," two subcommittees of the GOP-led House Energy and Commerce Committee reviewed more than a dozen bills aimed at rescinding regulations to boost the production of planet-heating and illness-inducing fossil fuels.

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      A hotel guest checks his smartphone in darkness due to a power outage

      As Profits Soar, US Utilities Lavish Shareholders While Shutting Off Power for Millions

      "The utility industry's custom of shutting off power punishes people for being poor," said the authors of a new report.

      Julia Conley
      Jan 30, 2023

      Energy justice campaigners on Monday called for "a permanent ban" on energy shutoffs by utilities as they released a report showing that major power companies have shut off millions of struggling customers' electricity and heat due to missed payments—while raking in record profits and spending billions of dollars on executive compensation, shareholder dividends, and stock buybacks.

      "The utility industry's custom of shutting off power punishes people for being poor," reads a new report by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the Energy and Policy Institute, and BailoutWatch. "This barbaric practice—and related punitive measures, like resale of debt to predatory private companies—must end."

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