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We made it to the end of another week!
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We hope you all have a fun and safe Halloween weekend. 🎃👻
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And don’t forget to turn your clocks back this Sunday as daylight saving time comes to an end.
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There are just four days left until the midterm elections and we will be keeping tabs on several energy and climate-related ballot measures.
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Keep reading to see which measures we’re watching.
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Jane Flegal, who served as Senior Director for Industrial Emissions in the Biden administration’s Office of Domestic Climate Policy, said passing permitting reform is so critical for decarbonization because of what Democrats weren’t able to do after passing the Inflation Reduction Act.
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“We wrote a bill that was informed by a bunch of technocratic modeling of what it would take to decarbonize our energy system, and what we found was that a bunch of these permitting barriers – and particularly the inability to build interregional transmission – meant that, you know, 80% of the emission reductions the models anticipated did not come to pass
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,” she told Daily on Energy earlier in the week.
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“One of the lessons of the IRA is that we were way too slow to implement, and people and industries did not feel benefits on the ground quickly enough,” she added.
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“If Democrats want to do something on clean energy in 2029, especially in a world of fiscal constraints, we have to get this done before then.
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Here are the energy- and climate-related ballot measures and elections that we’ll be following Tuesday:
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We will be keeping an eye out for the measures that will outright ban data center development in a community, rather than just impose new rules or regulations.
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For instance, voters in the city of Alhambra, California, will decide whether to ban data centers in their town.
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Alhambra would be the second city in California with an outright ban, following Monterey Park.
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Five Ohio localities will vote on bans.
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Overall, Ohio has 21 measures related to data centers, the most of any state.
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Colorado voters will also be deciding whether to place a right to purchase and sell natural gas stoves in the state constitution.
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It would be the first state to define such a right.
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The Democrat-led state has been working to reduce its emissions and transition away from fossil fuels.
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The conservative nonprofit, Advance Colorado that brought the initiative, argues that Coloradans have the right to choose which form of energy works best.
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On the West Coast, California voters will be deciding whether to overhaul and roll back decades-old environmental rules to make it easier to build highways, housing, and clean energy projects.
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The measure is known as Proposition 45, and it would make changes to the California Environmental Quality Act, which was signed into law by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1970.
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The law requires state agencies to consider and publicize the environmental impacts of projects before issuing approvals.
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It also allows the general public to sue and challenge state permits if they believe an agency failed to study or disclose the environmental effects of projects sufficiently.
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The measure would remove legal and regulatory roadblocks associated with the law by shortening the review process for certain essential projects.
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The changes would include setting strict deadlines for environmental reviews, shortening public comment periods, and narrowing court challenges.
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And down south, we’ll have our eyes on the Texas Railroad Commission election.
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Controversial conservative Bo French is vying for a seat on the oil and gas regulatory board, which oversees all planning for oil and gas production in Texas, as well as pipeline safety and natural gas rates.
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French has drawn nationwide interest over controversial policies he has pushed throughout his campaign, including vowing to end DEI practices in the commission and fight against the “existential threat” that Islam poses to Texas residents’ way of life.
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He will be facing off against Democrat Jon Rosenthal next Tuesday.
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OIL MAJORS RAKE IN PROFITS ON HIGH DIESEL PRICES:
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Chevron and Exxon Mobil reported significant earnings for the third quarter of this year, as the companies took advantage of high diesel prices and ran their refineries at full capacity.
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Chevron said its net income hit $9.9 billion during the third quarter, a nearly 200% increase from the same period in 2025.
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The company saw its diesel and jet fuel yields rise by around 10%, as it had its facilities run at 98% capacity during the quarter.
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Exxon also saw its earnings more than double to $15.4 billion during the same period.
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For the first time in years, its refining division outperformed its oil and gas production.
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The company’s Gulf Coast refineries ran at 100% utilization during the third quarter, and it recorded its second-highest diesel production on record.
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Quick reminder: The earnings reports come just two months after President Donald Trump lambasted both Chevron and Exxon for raking in “too much” profit during the second quarter of the year.
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