{"id":1567267,"date":"2022-07-23T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1567267"},"modified":"2022-07-23T06:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T10:49:38","slug":"energy-secretary-touts-green-transition-amid-skyrocketing-energy-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/energy-secretary-touts-green-transition-amid-skyrocketing-energy-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Secretary Touts &#8220;Green Transition&#8221; Amid Skyrocketing Energy Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fenergy-secretary-touts-green-transition-amid-skyrocketing-energy-prices%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1567267&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm urged the international community Thursday to help expedite the transition to \u201cclean energy\u201d amid soaring energy prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we are witnessing the beginning of one of the most significant events in human history: the clean energy transition. It is long overdue, and it can\u2019t progress fast enough,\u201d said Granholm in a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sebmi2QGbV4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> posted to the official U.S. Department of Energy YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>Granholm used the video to invite the international community to participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/gceaf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Clean Energy Action Forum<\/a> (GCEAF) being held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in September. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/13\/explosion-energy-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:\u00a0It\u2019s Not Just Gas \u2014 New Data Shows A Massive Explosion In Energy Prices Across The Board)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom September 21st through the 23rd, I\u2019m bringing together the people who are transforming our energy system,\u201d said Granholm. We\u2019ll be gathering here to \u2026 turn our clean energy ambition into action and accelerate our efforts to make clean energy more secure, more affordable, and more accessible.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The GCEAF\u2019s participants include green energy leaders, entrepreneurs and energy and science ministers from over 30 countries, according to Granholm.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day forum will include \u201chigh-level plenary, topical roundtables with energy and science ministers from 31 countries, CEOs and experts, side events, technology demonstrations, and other activities,\u201d the GCEAF reported on its website.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Consumer Price Index <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a>, released by the\u00a0Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/13\/explosion-energy-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">showed<\/a>\u00a0that U.S. energy costs are at the highest in 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. energy inflation rate rose 41.5% in June 2021 and 7.5% from May 2022 to June 2022, according to BLS. Americans saw a 13.7% rise in electricity rates, but Gasoline prices have seen the largest increase over the last year, rising 59%, BLS reported.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/13\/joe-biden-inflation-cpi-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defended<\/a> high energy prices by blaming it on several issues, including Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, energy companies using the crisis to profit from high gas station prices, and the CPI numbers being \u201cout-of-date.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm urged the international community Thursday to help expedite the transition to \u201cclean energy\u201d amid soaring energy prices.\u201cRight now, we are witnessing the beginning of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1575225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}