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Clean energy politics could run through GOP-led districts Source: By Peter Behr, E&E News reporter • Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2021
Wind farms are pictured in farmland near Elgin, Neb., in this 2013 photo. isnapshot/Flickr
Republican-held congressional districts running through the nation’s center hold the most potential for creating jobs in wind and solar power and could be a key to jump-starting successful clean energy political strategies, a Brookings Institution study concludes.
But from Texas to Montana and the Dakotas, a lot of congressional districts with clean energy potential are also hubs for coal, oil or gas production. Analysts at Brookings said that creates a high barrier for developing a national climate policy.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Allegion plc is a lock maker that still churns out its venerable emergency “panic bar” in Indianapolis, where the device was invented over a century ago after a deadly Chicago theater fire in which hundreds of people were trapped by locked exit doors.
But the future of locks, according to the American-Irish company’s chief executive, David Petratis, is digital - cloud technology, smart home devices and other connected applications, and for that it has turned outward, most recently acquiring a Colorado tech company.
“You have to take the old world and connect it to the new world, otherwise you become a commodity,” Petratis said.