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Tuesday, May 25, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm This event will be a Webinar and has a limited number of available spots for live participants. Please register for this event through the registration button, and you will receive an email with the details to watch the event live. The recording of this event will be posted on this event page within 48 hours of its conclusion. The CSIS Energy Security & Climate Change Program is pleased to invite you to a presentation and discussion on Reshore, Reroute, Rebalance: A U.S. Strategy for Clean Energy Supply Chains, a new report on the geopolitics of clea...

Article by Amanda Jasi AS PART of its 2021–22 Budget, the Australian Government is investing up to A$600m (US$464.3m) to allow energy generation company Snowy Hydro to construct a 660 MW gas power turbine in Kurri Kurri, Hunter Valley, New South Wales (NSW). Though the Government has touted benefits such as job creation, reducing energy prices, and emissions reductions, opposition has cast doubt on the purported economic benefits, and has commented on the lack of need for additional gas power and its detriments to a lower-carbon future. The planned gas power plant would help Australia to de...

President Biden talks tough about winning on green energy. But China is already ahead in one critical area. By Cara Korte Experts: Biden's tough China stance damaging When speaking about competition with China, President Joe Biden can sound as if he's taken the mic at a pep rally. "They think they're gonna win. Well I got news for them, they will not win this race. We can't let them," Mr. Biden said during his remarks Tuesday at the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan.  The "race" is the competition to produce green energy technologies. Global superpo...

Lawmakers express deep doubts about Afghanistan’s future after US withdrawal Jamie McIntyre © Provided by Washington Examiner DOD header 2020 TWO FUTURES: Whether Afghanistan can survive and prosper without the presence of thousands of American and international troops and contractors hinges on two unknowns — the ability of the 300,000-strong U.S.-trained and equipped government forces to forestall a Taliban takeover and the willingness of the Taliban to give up their brutal tactics in return for peace and a role in the future government. “We must not assume the inevi...

Ben Cahill Energy Security and Climate Change Program The Biden administration, mindful that its climate policies could hasten the already steep decline of the coal industry, aims to revitalize coal-dependent communities. President Biden’s climate-focused executive order signed on January 27 established an interagency working group to support vulnerable communities. The group’s first report highlights 25 energy communities that are potentially at risk and identifies $38 billion in available federal funding to invest in infrastructure, broadband, small businesses, and local financial insti...