Why does GOP want to defund IRS?
Ask their owners
IRS announced increased federal funding under #IRA
With the help of AI a new push will enable them to go after 1600 millionaires who owe at least $250K & 75 large businesses who owe US $100s of millions
https://twitter.com/WGNMorningNews/status/1700813363914424576

#Electrifying your# home is about to get a lot cheaper
#Rebates from the #IRA could help low- and middle-income households save thousands on #heatpumps, #weatherstripping, and other efficiency improvements. https://grist.org/buildings/electrifying-your-home-is-about-to-get-a-lot-cheaper/

Una operación en busca de un alijo de armas ligado a una escisión del #IRA acaba en jari en #Irlanda del Norte: hay tres detenidos y 16 policías acaban heridos

#policía #terrorismo #noticias
https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0908/1404219-explosive-seizure-derry/

Are we witnessing the rise of economic nationalism?

ZOE director Jakob Hafele was interviewed on this topic by DW.

🗨 “We are seeing a shift in how economic policy is being done. It’s really good that governments are supporting green industries much more,” he told them.

He called on governments to tie subsidies to the achievement of performance goals, so only the most productive, green and social firms survive.

▶️ Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ39JdKSEdc&list=PLT6yxVwBEbi0AKJXT8tseRoYHctKpD1Fj&index=1

#IRA #IndustrialPolicy #NetZero #NZIA

Good thing Biden's #IRA got passed! #GOTV for national security!

"production costs for a new battery plant in China are expected to come down from $60 million/GWh currently to $50 million/GWh by 2030, with huge impacts on the prices of battery packs. China already has a roughly 30% cost advantage over Europe and the U.S., with an average battery pack priced at $127 per kWh. In comparison, production costs in Europe are set to stay around $100-120 million/GWh..."

New #NBER working paper out by Yale's Costas Arkolakis and my #Columbia colleague Conor Walsh. The results are stark:

Even though ~70% of Inflation Reduction Act (#IRA) is inframarginal, learning-by-doing effects are *huge*: $100b in spending generate ~$970b of additional GDP "due to cheaper power prices both in the US and
around the world."

Lots of winners. Lots of distributional implications, too, of course. Fossils will fight 'til the very end.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w31615
#climate #economics

Wondering how it is that economic activity keeps beating experts' expectations?

According to @ClimatePower’s new report, 272 clean energy projects have been launched across the country, totaling $278 billion in new investments- one year after passage of the Inflation Reduction Act #IRA.

#TrackingHardship
https://www.chn.org/voices/human-needs-watch-aug-25-2023

Stop by @citizensclimate ’s table at the #minnesota state fair tomorrow and learn how you can take action for a livable planet. We’re in the Eco Experience building.
#EnROADS #IRA #ClimateChange #climateaction #ClimateJustice

Interested in learning more about what assistance you can get from Biden's Inflation Reduction Act climate legislation to help you decarbonize so that you're no longer warming our globe? Webinar on September 7th.

#IRA #ElectrifyEverything #GlobalWarming #ClimateProgress #ClimateSolutions #decarbonize #HeatPumps #Insulate

#NikkiHaley missed the part of the #IRA that sets requirements for the domestic manufacture of #batteries.

Because of Democrat's #IRA

Like digitization for the past few decades, #decarbonization is a “megatrend” for the global financial markets, Rama Variankaval, the head of JPMorgan’s Center for Carbon Transition, told CNBC.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/22/jpmorgan-exec-why-and-how-decarbonization-became-a-megatrend.html

New regulations on steel, cement, and refineries can help us to bridge the gap between what the carrots provided by the #IRA the experts on the Clean Air Task Force podcast.

They also highlight how the impacts of the legislation won't be really dramatic until 2026 - 27 so we've got to defend it from the grifters on the left that want to get the Democrats out of power for a little while still.

Basically yet more evidence that our planet's fate depends on 2024 elections.
https://youtu.be/F4-btsxwRAQ

Biden's Inflation Reduction Act #IRA looks like it is going to reduce the USA's carbon emissions by 4%/year which is GREAT progress, but we've got to more.

Individuals, especially all the rich Americans, can help us to get to where we need to be though by choosing to #decarbonize now.

Would you be here if you didn’t have good #internet access? High-speed internet is no longer a luxury but an “absolute necessity.” Pres #Biden has pledged that every household in the nation would have access by 2030 using cables made in the U.S.

“These investments will help all Americans,” he said. “We’re not going to leave anyone behind.”

#Democrats make things better with #IRA.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-internet-broadband-bead-0b95fabd7f6833ce420c80d474a145a5

REMINDER: 📻 Tune in today at 10 AM to hear Amy Turner, director of Cities Climate Law Initiative, speak about the #InflationReductionAct, America's biggest climate investment to date: https://the1a.org/ #climateaction #1yearanniversary #IRA

Has anyone seen a list of all the green and #infrastructure projects being funded by the Biden and Dem's #IRA bill?
It would be very helpful to have a database that breaks down projects by regions or even Congressional districts.
#climate #USpol

"Cultural heritage is strangely invisible in U.S. attention to climate change.

I say strangely because every community holds history and heritage. Every community has ties to places and stories that shape our senses of who we are. Heritage is part of human behavior. It’s part of the social sciences that help us understand society and how we live in the world. But somehow, climate change has come to be defined as atmospheric models, ecosystems and economic impacts — and parks that conserve heritage at the national scale as nature alone. We’ve developed a blind spot for the climate connections of deep human connections.

...

Climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed in August [2022] direct $500 million to the National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management for conservation and an additional $500 million to the National Park Service for staffing. The new law does not specify that any of this funding be used for cultural heritage. It is essential for our climate future that it is.

...

The IRA is a chance to write a new story for how the U.S. responds to climate change. We have much to gain from recognizing cultural heritage as an essential character in that story. We should ensure that programs and capacity to manage and engage heritage well are built anew to carry it forward."

Sharing this on the one-year anniversary of the signing of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act-

#ClimateHeritage
#ClimateChange
#IRA

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3689312-conserving-cultural-heritage-is-vital-for-climate-adaptation/

Green hydrogen investors to skeptics: la-la-la-la-la...

#greenhydrogen #hydrogen #energy #fuel #cleanenergy #greenenergy #renewableenergy #decarbonization #usa #investing #investors #finance #esg #cleanpower #greeneconomy #ira #taxcredits

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/08/10/whos-afraid-of-the-big-green-hydrogen-not-galp/

Another advantage of the 15min city: first an outing to watch MI7 with the kids and their cousin, followed by a quick stop at @yahoofinance on the walk home, for a segment on the 1-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act and the global clean-energy race: https://finance.yahoo.com/video/inflation-reduction-act-outlook-bidens-212330957.html

Best part: coming home after to Games of Life and chess.

#climate #IRA #MIssionImpossible #urbanism #NYC

Another advantage of the 15min city: first an outing to watch MI7 with the kids and their cousin, followed by a quick stop at @yahoofinance on the walk home, for a segment on the 1-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act and the global clean-energy race: https://finance.yahoo.com/video/inflation-reduction-act-outlook-bidens-212330957.html

Best part: coming home after to Games of Life and chess.

#climate #IRA #MIssionImpossible #urbanism #NYC