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Opinion:

¶ “Sixteen Trends That Will Buoy U.S. Wind Power Into The 2020s” • Wind power is on track to generate 10% of US electricity by 2020. After that, the impact of the production tax credit will begin to tail off. How will the market respond? These trends will outlive the PTC and keep creating demand for new turbines. [North American Windpower]

Wind power at a farm

¶ “Congress vs. Trump: Are the President’s Anti-Science Budget Priorities Headed for Another Defeat?” • The president is expected to release his full fiscal year 2018 budget this week, without any surprises. It will likely track the earlier “skinny budget” pretty closely, which means it’s going nowhere in Congress. [Union of Concerned Scientists]

¶ “India-China climate hope” • India’s and China’s pledged actions to curb their greenhouse gas emissions are likely to overcompensate by 2030 the impacts of US President…