Huffman Leads Newly Launched Accelerating Clean Energy (ACE) Task Force

Press release from the Office of Congressman Huffman:

Jared Huffman, public domain photo

[On March 23], Congressional Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) announced the launch of a new task force, the Accelerating Clean Energy (ACE) Task Force, which will be led by CPC Vice Chair Jared Huffman (CA-02). Under Huffman’s leadership, the task force will develop a blueprint for expeditiously achieving the benefits of the 117th Congress’ historic investments in clean energy.

The task force’s charge is to clearly understand the challenges of implementation of clean energy projects, to work with the Biden administration and external partners, and to develop recommendations for administrative and legislative reforms to permitting that will assist in more rapidly bringing new renewable energy projects online, upgrading and modernizing the electrical grid to enable the United States to meet President Biden’s goal of reducing carbon emissions 80 percent by 2030. The ACE Task Force will include Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee and CPC Chair Emeritus Representative Raúl Grijalva (AZ-07), and CPC members Representatives Mike Levin (CA-49), Joe Neguse (CO-02), Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), and Paul Tonko (NY-20), as well as Chair Jayapal.

“Driven by the urgency of the climate crisis, CPC members stepped up last Congress to shape and pass transformative legislation that sets the United States on the path to decarbonization.  With the ACE Task Force, the CPC is showing our commitment to ensuring that these reforms and investments are implemented with the same sense of urgency to meet our climate goals and deliver the broad benefits of a clean energy economy while upholding environmental justice as a core value,” said Rep. Huffman. “We will examine the real factors that have held up clean energy projects, acknowledge recent executive actions and last year’s $1 billion investment in clean energy permit streamlining, and recommend additional strategies to expedite clean energy project completion.  We can meet our clean energy goals without sacrificing bedrock environmental laws, throwing disadvantaged communities under the bus, or passing Trojan Horse legislation to help the fossil fuel industry.”

“I’m thrilled to announce our formation of the first-ever CPC task force dedicated to answering the urgent question of how we can speed up our transition to renewable energy without abandoning our climate goals,” said Rep. Jayapal. “Progressives have always been clear: we were not opposed to permitting reform itself, but rather to policies that are counterproductive to a clean energy future. This task force has been charged with developing a clear picture of where permitting reforms are needed, and of what administrative and legislative action can and must be done to accomplish those reforms. Our future on a livable planet depends on the speed with which we can meet this moment to implement the Inflation Reduction Act, disburse the funding allocated for clean energy, and modernize permitting law, all the while ensuring that we are not giving with one hand and taking away with the other when it comes to addressing the urgent crisis of climate justice.”

Task Force Background 

The IIJA and IRA had record investments for clean and renewable energy deployment, preparing for greater climate resilience, as well as creating jobs and protecting environmental justice communities. To ensure that our nation can maximize the full benefits of these important wins, this task force seeks to work with the Biden administration to ensure a rapid and efficient roll out of new projects and programs and will ensure federal action to build greater efficiencies for clean energy and transmission. The task force will work on policies that advance energy, water, and transmission permitting, allowing for new rapid infrastructure buildout while protecting communities and environmental justice populations.

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Zipline
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Zipline
1 year ago

Huffman and his co-conspirators in congress will achieve exactly….nothing. Batteries come from the earth….you want to electrify the world and move away from liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons you will have to expand mining exponentially and not just in someone else’s backyard. NIMBYISM will have to end. Massive mining operations will have to start in our backyards to provide the metals and other raw materials that it takes to produce lithium batteries and solar cells and wind turbines. All of these things have relatively short lifespans and need to be replaced on a regular basis. Politicians promises of reducing or eliminating hydrocarbons for energy production are nothing more than feel good dreams. The reality is painful and slow. First step is for idiots like Huffman and his ilk to educate themselves before passing a bunch of moronic laws that are nothing but counter productive….

sohumjoe
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sohumjoe
1 year ago
Reply to  Zipline

What about coming up with solutions for recycling all those materials that are used for batteries, solar cells, and wind turbines. I salute their effort. At least they are trying instead of typing out criticisms on the internet

THC
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THC
1 year ago
Reply to  sohumjoe

To be clear they’re not coming up with anything, all they’re doing is putting a committee together to cut red tape that they created to streamline the process for other people to figuring it out.

Farce
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Farce
1 year ago
Reply to  THC

Oh boy- more committees discussing more possible proposals to be studied and discussed at the next meeting! “I’m helping” says that kid on the Simpsons…

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1 year ago
Reply to  sohumjoe

Hydrogen has more centralizable and manageable possibilities but can’t create the regional corporate political power that manufacturing batteries does. So it does not get the political cache. Typing out criticism is the only way us peasants have to influence the way corporate and social lobbyists do. So yes, when finding oneself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. But stepping a foot over and start digging a new dangerous hole is not progress. So just don’t.

Zipline
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Zipline
1 year ago
Reply to  sohumjoe

Recycling lithium batteries is very expensive and time consuming. There is a lot more than lithium in a car battery. Cooling systems, connecting and distribution systems, control systems and a number of other metals all have to be carefully separated and processed usually by people wearing protective gear. And guess what, recycling takes considerable amount of…..energy. Of course, we could let our children do the recycling….take the burden of all those foreign kids…..oh and don’t forget the real price of your IPhone….all those foreigners who have leapt to their deaths to escape the horrible working conditions…..it’s O.K. as long has I have my phone….

THC
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THC
1 year ago

Nothing like appointing a bunch of bureaucrats that know nothing about the subject and topic that they’re going to tell other people how to do right, lol…
If California was serious about renewable energy they would be focusing more on biomass, geothermal and hydro. Just about every country in the world that has achieved more than 30% of their power being made from Alternative Energy uses primarily biomass and geothermal. Neither system requires the use of batteries and simply uses biomass or the heat generated from geothermal to produce Steam and spin generators just like a traditional power facility.

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1 year ago
Reply to  THC

Follow the money. The current money is with batteries. And making them and shipping them. And Progressive politicians are just as fond of that money as the most venal Republican politician from Minnesota with his speaking fees at a seminar in Hawaiian in March funded by the self styled Green battery manufacturer so there we are. In a Hawaii resort making problems for the next generation to solve while the politicians posture in press releases.

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Uri
1 year ago
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Agreed and yet we have hydro dams coming down and biomass plants shuttered in an area that has tons of renewable water and biomass. I don’t see how Jared justifies his adamant support of removing the Klameth Dams and why he doesn’t help get our biomass generators back on line.
There are turbines that allow fish to swim through them and doing responsible biomass would also help reduce the wildfire issue.

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Steve Koch
1 year ago
Reply to  Uri

Definitely agree on clearing wood selectively to reduce fire hazard and burning that wood for energy and heat.

Joe'sGarage
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Joe'sGarage
1 year ago

This “Task Force” will accomplish one thing, to insure the bag money makes it into the right pockets. It’s not ACE, it’s GSMDN (green scam money distribution network). Wow, I only had to reload 4 times to get Cloudflare to bestow the green arrow.

Kym Kemp
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1 year ago
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Try clicking the I am human button first.

Joe'sGarage
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Joe'sGarage
1 year ago
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I did

Kym Kemp
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1 year ago
Reply to  Joe'sGarage

Most folks have said that works. Let me know if there continues to be problems.

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1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

It just took me 4 times, as well…

On my “second” comment on the new covid article…

Just an FYI…

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1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Most of the time the first comment works if done fairly fast. Which means short comment. After that many times it never works well or sometimes at all. Repeated attempts are needed. Usually I erase cookies and repeat. It puts a cookie on somewhere that limits it’s checks.

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HotCoffee
1 year ago
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It’s a pain in the butt, but I copy my posts then delete it, reload the page, paste my post back in, and then it’s accepted.
However, then WordPress rearranges the spacing and sentence breaks in the post.
Then I have anything from a minute to ten minutes to make any corrects.
Ain’t tech wonderful.

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Tiredofthisweathertoo
1 year ago
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Lots of problems all the time. Human button most of the time doesn’t make difference.Try it please. It seems selective on comments being posted. Thanks

Jeffersonian
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1 year ago

Jared Huffman, McGuire and Gavin Newsom, along with the Calif. super majority of liberals, are an absolute disaster in progress .

Zipline
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Zipline
1 year ago
Reply to  Jeffersonian

You want to change the world….change yourself. It’s not a political problem. Get rid of your car, lose the phone, grow all your own food, live where you work. I’m not going to do it and neither are you. We’re going to drive off the cliff at full speed but I will understand exactly who’s to blame when we hit the rocks at the bottom….we are….remember, everything humans touch turns to shit. Blame yourself.

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1 year ago
Reply to  Jeffersonian

Sort of. If they actually could make what they demand happen, it would be a disaster. But usually they just paralyzed the system and people work around it to do what they want. It creates a burden and expense.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago

In the headspace I live in, you get something working before you destroy what already works.
PG&E has an 18 mo. waiting list to hook up new homes.
People are still waiting to get their electricity back from the storms. Our grid is open to EMP attacks and solar flares. So, let’s get rid of gas.

We still haven’t cleaned up the Superfund sites, but we want to tear up the Serria Nevada mountains for minerals.

Yes, we need alternatives, But better ones, not worse ones.

Farce
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Farce
1 year ago

Blah Blah Blah….what they want is more children slaves mining lithium and cobalt out of African mines so rich people can be “progressive” and drive electric cars. The arrogance is disgusting….

Zipline
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Zipline
1 year ago
Reply to  Farce

You are spot on.

Al L Ivesmatr
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Al L Ivesmatr
1 year ago
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Yes. Black African children at that. I guess the Huffmans of the world would consider them eggs just like all the birds about to be shredded off our coast by windmills. The progressives live by the mantra, gotta break a few million eggs to make their never to be achieved utopian omelette. Check out the picture of Huffman in this article. He either just dropped acid or huffed a bunch of gold paint from his recycled hemp paper bag.