Whether or not the natural gas wants more attention about its horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) drilling practices, it’s receiving plenty, this time from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
WASHINGTON — More than 60 conservation and environmental groups are calling on top Biden officials to suspend permits and approvals by the previous Trump administration for the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline, contending it poses a grave threat to clean water, local communities, the environment, and the climate. If the administration … [continued]
GE sticks a fork in the US coal industry with new 13-megawatt version of its Haliade-X offshore wind turbine.
As of September 1, Exxon in no longer in the Top 10 of the S&P 500 and its weight in the index has slipped from 5% to just 1%. Oh, how the mighty have fallen!
As if 2018 isn’t beginning badly enough for the US coal industry, over the weekend word dropped that Lloyd’s of London is dropping out of the coal market. Other leading firms have already staked out their position in the low carbon economy, but losing the support of the world’s oldest … [continued]
The Texas-based Welch Foundation is behind new perovskite solar cell research that will keep pushing the cost of solar power down, down, down.
An abundant supply of cheap shale gas from fracking is driving a boom in plastics production worldwide, threatening the environment with more than 34 billion tons of plastic waste.
In two concurrent trends, US wind energy is rising while cheap natural gas continues to kill off hundreds of jobs in the coal power generating sector.
Trump talks up coal but his own Energy Department has already laid the groundwork for microgrids and renewable energy to power Puerto Rico and the US.
Big business nails down most of the attention for buying huge megawatts of renewable energy, but practically anyone who gets an electricity bill can order up renewables on a more modest scale. In effect, the consumer choice option lets people substitute 100% wind and/or solar power for their utility company’s normal grid mix.
