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Electriciteitsproductie USA : rol van kolen is langzaam maar zeker uitdovend.

Andere nemen over.

Admin Trump kan dat ook niet verhinderen.

"Men" hoopt dat een Admin Biden dat nog gaat versnellen, door de subsidies op fossiel aan te pakken.

President Donald Trump vowed four years ago to bring back the U.S. coal industry.

That never happened, as the New York Times and the public radio program The Allegheny Front each pointed out recently through in-depth looks at coal country since Trump’s 2016 election.

Now as the Nov. 3 presidential election draws nearer, Wall Street has been examining what a potential shift in power in Washington might mean for the U.S. energy sector.

Despite the Trump administration’s oil-and-gas friendly policies, including its push to open up public lands for exploration and slashing of environmental protections, the shift away from fossil fuels is already well underway.

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, on Monday underscored how a potential White House win by former Vice President Joe Biden and Democrats taking control of the Senate could accelerate the move by the U.S. toward cleaner power sources.

But first, here’s their chart showing how coal already has been declined since early 2000, in terms of powering the U.S. electricity grid.


Coal's diminished role since 2000 BLACKROCK INVESTMENT INSTITUTE, U.S. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION

It also shows that the share of electricity generated by renewable sources rose to 17% in 2019 from 10% in 2010.

“A Democratic sweep could accelerate the decarbonization of the power sector, by extending and expanding tax credits for renewable power sources and other zero-carbon industrial sources such as carbon sequestration,” wrote a BlackRock Investment Institute team led by Mike Pyle, global chief investment strategist.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wa...=mw_quote_news

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/he...nge-2020-09-29

Here’s where Trump and Biden stand on climate change

Biden would cut fossil-fuel subsidies, and Trump says U.S. carries unfair burden compared with the rest of world
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“What do you believe about the science of climate change, sir?” moderator Chris Wallace asked President Trump. “Do you believe that human pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, contribute to climate change?”
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Wallace pushed Trump on pulling the U.S. from the voluntary international Paris climate accord and his rollback of Obama-era environmental moves (some of the dropped regulations pre-date Obama).

“What do you believe about the science of climate change, and what will you do over the next four years to confront it?” Wallace asked the president.

“I want crystal clean water and air, we now have the lowest carbon … if you look at our numbers now we are doing phenomenally,” Trump replied. He called the Paris agreement a “disaster” and repeated yet again that the historic wildfires in the West in recent years are due to poor forest management. “The forest floor is loaded up with dead trees. You drop a cigarette in there the whole forest burns down,” he said. Just more than half of California forests are federally managed land.

“But sir, if you believe in the science of climate change, why have you rolled back the Obama Clean Power Plan, which limited carbon emissions in power plants?” Wallace pressed. “Because it was driving energy prices through the sky,” Trump answered. “Why have you relaxed fuel economy standards?” Wallace asked. “You’re talking about a tiny difference,” Trump said.

Most analysts said it was the longest public exchange on climate change they could remember Trump engaging in.

“For the first time, President Trump acknowledged that human activity has, at least in part, caused climate change,” the American Conservation Coalition, a conservative environment group, said in a statement.

Biden, for his part, used the debate time to push his $2 trillion green stimulus plan. “Nobody’s gonna build another coal-fired plant in America. They’re gonna move to renewable energy,” the former vice president said.

As was the tactic throughout the debate, the president jumped in as Biden spoke, challenging that the price of the climate-change proposal advanced by the Democrat was much higher and the plan more aligned to the Green New Deal advanced by the progressive arm of the party.

“Not true,” Biden replied.

Here’s a deeper look at the candidates’ records on climate change.