The Navajo Generating Station, a coal-burning power plant, has closed its doors for good. It was run for 45 years in Arizona and was the largest coal plant in the West. Its closure will most likely affect the entire region. USA Today reports that the mine that supplied the plant with coal has also closed — it closed back in August.
Google Maps will soon monitor and display urban air pollution levels thanks to tech startup Aclima’s environmental sensory system.
United Airlines will be testing a fuel blend containing waste-based biofuels in passenger flights this Summer.
2015 could be a “watershed year” for the US power sector according to a new white paper published by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, with records viable in annual renewable build, coal retirements, and gas burn. More importantly, Bloomberg suggest that “electricity-related emissions could fall to their lowest levels since 1994.” … [continued]
Central California, already painfully stressed by the worst drought in 50 years (which the US Drought Monitor designates as “extreme or exceptional drought,” the most serious category on the agency’s five-level scale), has another problem with its water supply. Aquifers that supply drinking and irrigation water have recently had to … [continued]
Originally published on Ecopreneurist. Do you know what the climate impacts of your everyday actions are? Aside from calculating the carbon footprint of each activity, and adding them together and keeping tabs on them all, which is not only time-consuming, but doesn’t take into consideration how your behaviors compare with … [continued]
As electric and plug-in vehicles increase in demand due to customers wanting cleaner vehicles (for environmental concerns such as climate change, as well as pure economic reasons), it’s obvious these vehicles will increase fuel efficiency records. The Ford C-Max Energi is one such vehicle doing so today. Ford recently announced … [continued]
