At the federal level, Energy
Secretary Rick Perry proposed a rule to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to compensate baseload power plants that keep at least 90 days worth of fuel on - site — basically all nuclear power plants and some coal plants.
Energy
Secretary Rick Perry has directed his department to conduct a wide - ranging study of the U.S. electric grid, with a particular emphasis on recent coal and nuclear plant closures and whether environmental policies may be driving them.
FERC earlier this year launched a proceeding to examine the resilience of the US grid after terminating proceedings on a proposed rulemaking on grid resilience and reliability from US Energy
Secretary Rick Perry.
In the US, there has been substantial political pressure over the role of coal in the electricity system, leading to energy
secretary Rick Perry to order a study on grid reliability and baseload power, which led to a controversial rule from the US Department of Energy allowing conventional generators to receive costs from suppliers to remain available, even when they are not required by the market.
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Secretary Rick Perry has repeatedly emphasised that coal will be a key part of the Trump administration's policies.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, Department of Energy
Secretary Rick Perry, and others are calling for a red - team / blue - team (RT / BT) exercise to resolve differences of opinion regarding the science of global climate change.
But the mere announcement of the initiative suggests that Energy
Secretary Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas, takes seriously President Trump's promise to make coal the centerpiece of his energy policy.
Ahead of the meeting, Energy
Secretary Rick Perry lobbied for Trump to stay within the Agreement but to renegotiate the terms, while EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt lobbied...
Though «climate denial starts at the top,» the New York Times» Coral Davenport wrote in March, it was trickling down into a variety of high - influence position: Vice President Mike Pence, who once called global warming a «myth» disproved by the fact that his home state once had a cold winter; then - senior advisor Steve Bannon, whose news site Breitbart remains one of the top destinations for climate misinformation; Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who believes carbon dioxide is not a «primary contributor» to global warming; and Department of Energy
Secretary Rick Perry, who believes the same myth, saying in June, «No, most likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.»
Despite this common knowledge, the Trump Administration and Energy
Secretary Rick Perry continue to prop up these dying industries.
In an April 14 memo circulated through the Department of Energy,
Secretary Rick Perry ordered a 60 - day DOE study of...
In September 2017, Energy
Secretary Rick Perry introduced a ludicrous proposal to change electricity market rules in order to bailout failing nuclear and coal projects.
Last month, U.S. Energy
Secretary Rick Perry signed an agreement with Saudi Arabian officials to research «carbon capture» technology for fossil fuels, the Department of... read more January 29, 2018 by Aaron Cole
While EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has been taking most of the «heat» for the Trump administrations climate policy, this past week Energy
Secretary Rick Perry and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke stepped into the fray.
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Secretary Rick Perry has proposed new rules that would provide potentially unlimited funding for struggling power plants regardless of their economic competitiveness compared to cleaner alternatives.
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Secretary Rick Perry's recent claim that the main cause of climate change is most likely «the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.»
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Secretary Rick Perry, like Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt, is reluctant to acknowledge the scientific evidence for man - made climate change.
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Secretary Rick Perry...
Trump has also appointed officials such as EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, Energy
Secretary Rick Perry and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, all of whom question the scientific consensus that carbon released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels is the primary driver of global warming.
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Secretary Rick Perry said Monday that he doesn't believe man - made carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of climate change, contradicting virtually all of the world's climate scientists.
Energy
Secretary Rick Perry testified at a hearing on his agency's priorities.
Energy
Secretary Rick Perry spoke with C - SPAN for a profile interview.
He highlighted EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, Secretary Ryan Zinke, and
Secretary Rick Perry and again mentioned the grid reliability report.
Energy
Secretary Rick Perry has granted a 30 - day extension sought by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Kevin McIntyre last week to give the regulatory agency more time before it acts on the controversial proposed Grid Resiliency Pricing Rule.
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Secretary Rick Perry has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to provide bailouts to power plants that no longer can compete with natural gas and renewable energy in the wholesale power market on the false basis that they will solve a grid resiliency crisis that does not exist.
Last month, Energy
Secretary Rick Perry requested a review of America's power grid.
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Secretary Rick Perry last year attempted to paint incentives for baseload power, including coal - fired plants, as a means to bolster resilient energy.
Energy
Secretary Rick Perry said Tuesday he thinks the United States should remain in the 2015 Paris climate accord but push to renegotiate the agreement, which covers nearly 200 countries.
«American ingenuity is the engine of our energy economy,» said Energy
Secretary Rick Perry, in a statement.
Even the draft report from the U.S. Department of Energy staff for
Secretary Rick Perry conceded that coal and nuclear are simply no longer economic.
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Secretary Rick Perry should deep - six deep decarbonization.
The groups are responding to an April 14 memo where U.S. Energy
Secretary Rick Perry questions policy that encourages renewable and distributed energy.
But Energy
Secretary Rick Perry's claim that fossil fuels improve women's lives misses the mark.
On Wednesday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a brief statement denying the requests of a long list of energy industry groups, ranging from solar and wind to the American Petroleum Institute, to extend the comment period for the notice of proposed rulemaking, or NOPR, handed to it by Energy
Secretary Rick Perry late last month.
Our Portals at the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Palo Alto, CA were attended by President Barack Obama, Secretary John Kerry, Secretary Penny Pritzker, Assistant
Secretary Rick Stengel, Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
«Sens. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.) asked about the situation in a Tuesday letter to Energy
Secretary Rick Perry, citing documents that appear to show that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) paid more than $ 24 million to the partnership of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for costs from a series of whistleblower cases.»
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Secretary Rick Perry reflects on a list of 75 innovative breakthroughs that took place at one or a few of our 17 National Labs.
March 28, 2018 - Energy
Secretary Rick Perry made his first visit to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on Monday, praising Lab employees for «making a difference in people's lives» and reaffirming DOE's commitment to securing the future of its national laboratories.
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Secretary Rick Perry poses in front of the Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
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Secretary Rick Perry and his department want to tilt the playing field in the name of helping a supposedly frail electric grid
Fifty - one fusion researchers from across Europe signed a letter to Energy
Secretary Rick Perry stating: «The Omega lasers... are the world's most productive facilities in fielding experiments in high energy density physics.
Though the administration said the focus on aid was strong, when two Cabinet secretaries spoke at a conference on another subject — including Energy
Secretary Rick Perry, whose agency is helping restore the island's power — neither made any mention of Puerto Rico or Hurricane Maria.
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Secretary Rick Perry believes that the science is still out on climate change — and that fossil fuels can prevent sexual assault.
Energy
Secretary Rick Perry is the latest member of Trump's Cabinet who has been caught flying on a private charter plane at taxpayer expense, reportedly taking a flight to Ohio, only a day before Tom Price resigned as health secretary for doing the same.
The situation appeared to be at a boiling point Tuesday evening when the White House leaked simultaneously to multiple outlets that Trump was leaning toward asking Energy
Secretary Rick Perry to take over the VA..
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Secretary Rick Perry has also said that human activity is not the main driver of climate change.
For his part, Energy
Secretary Rick Perry tried to allay concerns at a major energy conference this week in Houston, downplaying, and perhaps gleefully oblivious to, the fallout of the looming trade war for US energy.
He would be another in a string of appointees who have previously attacked the agencies they now head, including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who sued the agency as Oklahoma attorney general, and Energy
Secretary Rick Perry, who previously proposed abolishing the department he now heads.
The EIA attributes this acceleration to the expansion of export facilities in Louisiana and Maryland, with six additional ones currently under construction, according to Energy
Secretary Rick Perry.