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Forbes | SatKartar Khalsa, Senior Initiative Director, Climate Imperative Foundation: A battery pack price of $100 per kilowatt-hour is considered the crucial point at which EVs become price competitive with gas-powered cars, a shift that is key to mainstream EV adoption. Many expect to reach this inflection point in the next several years – we think it will happen as soon as this year.

S&P Capital IQ Commodity Insights | Instead of public campaigns centered on a cultural war, coal advocacy now focuses on utilities lobbying state authorities to slow the clean energy transition, said Bruce Nilles, executive director of Climate Imperative and an early leader within the Sierra Club’s highly influential Beyond Coal campaign. Several utilities have delayed plans to close coal-fired power plants in recent months.

E&E News | While the winner of the November election may not determine the ultimate fate of coal — which is in steep decline in the U.S. — the next president could influence how long it sticks around as a source of power in a climate-constrained world.

E&E News | While the winner of the November election may not determine the ultimate fate of coal — which is in steep decline in the U.S. — the next president could influence how long it sticks around as a source of power in a climate-constrained world.

Gas Outlook | Experts said the power plant rules are one of the Biden administration’s crowning achievements on climate policy.

Politico | “This does mark an important inflection point,” said Mary Anne Hitt, who was head of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign spent years stopping new coal plants from being built and forcing others to close.