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US renewables developers are taking a fresh look at Canada’s roster of wind and solar projects in the wake of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which stripped the American sector of key clean energy investment tax credits set up under the Biden administration.

Trump attack on US clean energy progress boosting Canada as a ‘preferred investment destination’

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s stripping of landmark Biden-era investment tax credits from American renewables players has sparked conversations about shifting capital north to Canadian projects, sa...

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I don't know, but I'll take the insights of actual CLIMATE scientist Michael Wehner (who has published extensively on extreme event attribution) over the highly misleading claims of POLITICAL scientist Roger Pielke Jr. of the conservative think tank AEI (via Rupert Murdoch's WSJ editorial page):

"The American Enterprise Institute’s Roger Pielke Jr. has suggested that Congress could establish a board modeled on the National Transportation Safety Board to investigate mistakes made during natural disasters to prevent their recurrence. But as he underlines, there’s no indication that extreme precipitation in “flash flood alley” or the U.S. overall has been increasing." (from https://www.wsj.com/opinion/texas-flood-guadalupe-river-climate-change-national-weather-service-d2a9319d?st=ca6reZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink)
Michael Wehner@michaelfwehner.bsky.social · last yr.

The flooding of the Guadalupe River in Texas was undoubtedly made worse because of climate change. I would estimate that there was 7-20% more rainfall than w/o the human interference in the climate. But w/o detailed attribution studies on the storm and associated runoff, we can't know for certain.

🚨 MEASLES OUTBREAK IN U.S.: WORST YEAR SINCE DISEASE WAS ERADICATED A disease once eliminated in the U.S. is now roaring back. And we just hit a chilling milestone. 1/