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The United States is diverging from global trends on wind power,
said Dave Jones, a director at climate think tank Ember Major economies are embracing wind as a source of cheap, clean electricity. The United States risks being left behind in the clean industrial revolution,
Geothermal is heating up, and the Trump administration is going to empower the industry over the next four years to achieve its potential."
Bryant Jones, Geothermal Rising's executive director It's reliable, it's efficient, and frankly their ties to the more conventional forms of energy production, I think, is probably not lost on some people."
Alex Kania, managing director at Marathon Capital They can fuel it with anything they want, and they may have coal as a backup,
We're going to build electric generating facilities. I'm going to get the approval under emergency declaration. I can get the approvals done myself without having to go through years of waiting,
Trump said in a virtual address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland You don't have to hook into the grid, which is old and could be taken out,
This could be the decade of geothermal,
He’s well-informed of its risks and opportunities, and continues to be a strong advocate for what it could be,
The embrace of advanced geothermal under this new administration, I’d say is not a giant surprise,
said Alex Kania, a managing director at Marathon Capital We anticipate that political appointees will work to implement Trump’s agenda through secretarial orders and specific agency actions, whether regulatory rollbacks, new lease sales, drilling permits, pipeline approvals, etc. That’s where the fight will prove most intensive,
If they start doing things that are egregious and use the executive order as a rationale, we would be prepared to sue,
Once you have that badge of approval from the National Security Council, you can flash it to every federal judge that tries to stand in the way, because courts consistently defer to national security claims,
said Tyson Slocum of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen It’s hard to challenge an executive order in general,
said Brett Hartl of the Center for Biological Diversity The law doesn’t define what an emergency is, and so far no court has been willing to overturn a finding that there is an emergency,
said University of California, Berkeley Law School professor Dan Farber It could expedite energy projects but also harm water standards, endangered species protections, fill in the blank,
said Emory University School of Law professor Mark Nevitt
