{"id":2353672,"date":"2024-10-11T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clean-energy-must-overcome-climate-change-deniers-granholm-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T11:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:08:45","slug":"clean-energy-must-overcome-climate-change-deniers-granholm-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clean-energy-must-overcome-climate-change-deniers-granholm-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean energy must overcome \u2018climate change deniers\u2019: Granholm &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fclean-energy-must-overcome-climate-change-deniers-granholm-washington-examiner%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=2353672&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--><p>U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm recently\u200d emphasized the Biden \u200cadministration&#8217;s commitment to clean energy during a \u200ddiscussion \u2064at the Grace Hopper Conference in Philadelphia, the \u2064largest\u2063 tech\u2064 gathering for women and non-binary individuals. Granholm \u2063highlighted a shift towards federal support for clean energy, stating that the U.S. previously lacked a cohesive industrial strategy, which she believes is critical\u2062 to overcoming challenges in the sector. <\/p>\n<p>A major roadblock, according to Granholm, is the\u2063 presence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-looks-totally-lost-and-confused-after-finishing-up-speech-in-delaware-video\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Looks Totally Lost and Confused After Finishing Up Speech in Delaware (VIDEO)\">climate change deniers<\/a>, whom\u200b she sees as a \u2062significant hindrance to progress. While technical and permitting challenges are \u2064issues, she stressed \u2063the importance of addressing these attitudes to \u2063make headway. \u200dHowever, she did note improvements\u2064 in \u200dPennsylvania under the administration of Governor\u200d Josh Shapiro, \u200bwho has\u200d successfully reduced permitting backlogs in \u200dthe state.<\/p>\n<p>Granholm also pointed \u200cout the immense economic potential \u2063in the clean energy sector, labeling \u200dit a $23 trillion opportunity, particularly through initiatives like the \u200bBipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, which \u200caim to enhance the U.S.&#8217;s leadership in climate-related \u200dtechnologies. The \u200bDepartment \u2063of Energy is actively supporting projects related to critical \u200cminerals, such as lithium\u2063 in Pennsylvania, \u200chighlighting \u200bthe evolving landscape of the energy industry and the\u200c investment\u2064 opportunities it presents.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Clean energy must overcome &lsquo;climate change deniers&rsquo;: Granholm<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1813208\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>(The Center Square) &mdash; U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm praised the Biden administration&rsquo;s action on energy and climate in Philadelphia on Thursday, emphasizing a new era of federal efforts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;We haven&rsquo;t had an industrial strategy in the United States to this point,&rdquo; Granholm said. &ldquo;Other countries have, and they put their thumb on the scale &mdash; understandably. We finally have our thumb on the scale.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a 12-minute fireside chat at the Grace Hopper Conference, which bills itself as the world&rsquo;s largest tech gathering for women and non-binary people, she worried that the major hurdles for clean energy are not permitting delays and technological limits, but climate change deniers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One of the biggest hurdles we&rsquo;re facing now is people who will deny that climate change is happening,&rdquo; Granholm said. &ldquo;To pretend it doesn&rsquo;t exist or cause people to choose not to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-debate-future-infrastructure-bills\/\" title=\"Lawmakers debate future infrastructure bills\">address climate change<\/a> because they think it&rsquo;s false is really doing such a huge disservice to this generation &hellip; we&rsquo;ll get permitting reform through, we&rsquo;ll surmount the technological challenges &hellip; I have huge faith in science that we will get through there. But can we address the difficult stuff between the ears?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Though she didn&rsquo;t speak of Pennsylvania specifically, the commonwealth has long struggled with permitting problems across all parts of its economy. Gov. Josh Shapiro has bragged of his administration&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/pennsylvania\/article_35fd4cd0-3e35-11ef-b273-a3d92aa29ffe.html\">reducing the permitting backlog<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;in the Department of Environmental Protection by 60%, though&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/pennsylvania\/article_9fb66c9a-f8fa-11ee-9f1f-03bad63341ec.html\">the opportunity to make the process better remains<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-sullivan-calls-out-democrat-hypocrisy-over-natural-gas\/\" title=\"Sen. Sullivan calls out Democrat hypocrisy over natural gas\">natural gas industry<\/a> has long complained of permitting delays&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/pennsylvania\/article_85b57884-2265-11ee-b0ef-6ff1ed664ce5.html\">restraining its growth<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and state legislators have warned that Pennsylvania has an&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/pennsylvania\/article_7c45e1b8-d72c-11ee-8db7-3bd112877c1f.html\">international reputation<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;for delay.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wake-up-with-the-washington-examiner-trumps-lawyer-problem-and-harris-scrambling-to-hold-latino-vote-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Wake up with the Washington Examiner: Trump\u2019s lawyer problem and Harris scrambling to hold Latino vote - Washington Examiner\">story doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t change for clean energy in the state, either. The queue for new energy generation in the PJM grid means producers can sometimes&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/pennsylvania\/article_113489d6-6590-11ef-8d08-eb2113a3323d.html\">wait years for approval<\/a><\/strong>, even as&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/pjm-interconnection-queue-solar-battery-gas-columbia-report\/715620\/\">the vast majority<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;of those projects are for solar or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/summer-in-paradise-california-energy-officials-warn-of-possible-blackouts-for-up-to-4-million-people\/\" title=\"Summer in Paradise: California Energy Officials Warn of Possible Blackouts for Up to 4 Million People\">energy storage projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Granholm praised efforts to build a clean energy economy and urged diversification driven by efforts like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Tech industry leaders: This is a $23 trillion opportunity to build and research, develop the products that are going to address climate change,&rdquo; Granholm said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a huge opportunity for America to lead in particular technologies that, heretofore, might have been in other countries because of their industrial strategy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Energy has been prominent in supporting projects to rebuild America&rsquo;s critical mineral industry.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/pennsylvania\/article_f82ba7f8-49d3-11ef-af35-7f82d45eb259.html\">Lithium<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;in Pennsylvania has drawn a lot of attention, as have a bevy of other minerals. Some estimate that critical minerals could be&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/pennsylvania\/article_f0a98eac-45ee-11ef-928c-332fe6bb1968.html\">a $40 billion sector<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;just from pulling them out of coal ash sites. Others, however, have been&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/pennsylvania\/article_f4af06e6-5e6f-11ef-a337-9b0b0b35217f.html\">wary of federal subsidies<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;for projects.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The other countries, they are adopting strategies for industrial policy; this is such a huge market, there&rsquo;s plenty of room for everybody, we want to make sure in the United States that we&rsquo;re not losing out,&rdquo; Granholm said. &ldquo;Since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act two years ago, over 900 factories have announced they&rsquo;re coming or expanding in the United States to build this clean energy future &hellip; we had begun de-industrialization &mdash; now we are reindustrializing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That reindustrialization, however, has been mixed. The federal government has sent millions to a&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/new-tech-hub-investments-aim-to-unleash-diverse-regional-tech-clusters\/\">dozen tech hubs<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;to encourage &ldquo;high-potential clusters in 10 key technology areas,&rdquo; places like Akron, Ohio and Reno, Nevada.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But investments for emerging industries like clean energy and semiconductors have&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rmi.org\/its-the-iras-first-birthday-here-are-five-areas-where-progress-is-piling-up\/\">trended toward the Sun Belt<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;or greenfield cities like Columbus, Ohio. Rust Belt cities have been less attractive compared to tech hubs like San Francisco, Phoenix, or Austin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1813208\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1813208\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean energy faces challenges from climate change skeptics: Granholm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2353673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Joe-Biden.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34900,13784,16195],"class_list":["post-2353672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-clean-energy","tag-climate-change","tag-granholm"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Joe-Biden.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353672","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=2353672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2353673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}