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Ramez Naam
@ramez
Why the Manchin / Schumer permitting reform bill is so important for climate: "hundreds of millions of tons per year of greenhouse gas emissions ... are contingent on our ability to accelerate the expansion of electricity transmission & deploy renewable electricity at scale."
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JesseJenkins
@JesseJenkins
NEW REPEATProject.org analysis out on the importance of electricity transmission expansion to unlock the full emissions reduction potential (& health benefits) of the #InflationReductionAct: repeatproject.org/docs/REPEAT_IR Read on to learn why 100s of millions of tons are at stake.
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Isaac Larkin
@Eyesgack
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Jesse specifically said the analysis from that thread doesn’t estimate the climate impact of the Manchin/Schumer permitting bill. Big diff b/w ‘we need to make it easier to permit new clean energy transmission’ and ‘the specific policies in this bill are net-positive for climate’
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