BC Government Attacks Vancouver’s Attempt To Limit Emissions
The largest cause of the city’s emissions is natural gas and so the BC Government attacks Vancouver’s attempt to limit emissions.
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Public Lands Are Responsible For Billions In Consumer Spending, & Trump Wants To Sell Them…
Today, Congress is discussing the impact of the outdoor recreation industry. The meeting comes at a time when the environment faces growing threats both from climate change and the Trump Administration. President Trump has moved to open national parks to drilling, and this week he ordered the Interior Department to review monument designations with the idea of opening protected lands to farming, ranching or fossil fuel exploration.
Why Large Animals Can’t Handle A Little Rain
Today, climate change is fueling heavy precipitation around the globe. Species have started to shift locations or find other ways to adapt. Is the past prologue?
Sea-Level Rise Will Send Millions Of Refugees To Inland Cities
When rising waters from superstorms like Katrina or Sandy inundate heavily populated coastal communities, vast numbers of people will abandon their destroyed homes and flee for safety and shelter elsewhere.
Where will they go — and how will their destination cities cope with them?
Trump Wants To Cut Renewables Out Of The Energy Market
President Trump made much noise during the election about putting coal miners back to work. Most analysts agree that won’t happen — coal is being undercut by wind, solar and natural gas in the energy market.
But what if the federal government changes that market, tinkering with incentives to redirect the future of the grid?
Building A Coal Plant In Kansas In 2017 Could Be More Trouble Than It’s Worth
Then, last month, coal got a break in Kansas, where the state Supreme Court ruled against Earthjustice and the Sierra Club, granting a permit to the Sunflower Electric Power Corporation to build an expansion to its coal-fired power plant in Holcomb. The expansion would be the first coal-fired plant built in the state since the original Holcomb plant came online in 1983, according to the Sierra Club.
Can Coal Make A Comeback? No. No It Can’t. — Columbia Center On Global Energy…
A new report published by Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy has concluded that no amount of regulatory rollbacks and policy decisions made by Donald Trump’s administration will be able to succeed in bringing back coal jobs.
Harvard University “Pausing” Investments For Some Fossil Fuels
After several years of growing pressure from students, faculty, alumni, and outside proponents of fossil fuel divestment, Harvard University is set to pause investments in some fossil fuels.
The University Of San Francisco’s New Focus On The Energy Transition
The electric power sector is undergoing a rapid transformation to a system that is far more complex – more distributed resources, added storage, customers who are also producers, markets with different regulations and incentives, and constant technological and policy innovation.
5 Solar Celebrities Who Practice What They Preach
A growing number of celebs care deeply about the future of our planet, and the very best of them not only practice what they preach by incorporating solar energy into their own lives, they also use their place in the spotlight to advocate for climate solutions.
