Oh, Toyota, when will you ever learn! Toyota is an odd company for those of us who cover the electric vehicle (EV) industry. For one thing, we don’t have much to write about. Toyota has had a best-selling hybrid for the past two decades that has somewhat evolved over time. … [continued]
Scott Pruitt, the deeply mistrusted head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, confirmed in a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment that his plans to launch a “red team, blue team” exercise on the subject on climate change could reach fruition as early as next month.
The new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, has announced that the EPA may launch a “public climate debate” as soon as January. In other words, rather than dealing with the issue in any real way, the idea is that some monkeys can get together on TV and yell past one another — and that can substitute for an actual discussion of the civilization-wrecking issues now facing the world.
As part of the measures following from US President Donald Trump’s executive order issued back in March calling for the easing of “regulatory burdens” on the energy industry, the US Environmental Protection Agency will be reviewing the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, amongst others, it was announced last Wednesday.
Scott Pruitt told an audience at the Kentucky Farm Bureau on Monday that he is in favor of ending all tax credits for wind and solar power as soon as possible.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to “withdraw” the Obama-era Clean Power Plan is intended as a sign to coal miners that “the war on coal is over” but experts are confident the repeal will not bring coal back, and States are continuing to move forward with their own climate change initiatives.
Later this week, Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA, will sign an order dismantling the Clean Power Plan and consigning Americans to more polluted skies.
EPA chief Scott Pruitt continues to dismantle the work of his own agency.
It’s not the perfect plan, but the Clean Power Plan developed by the Obama administration is the strongest U.S. effort yet to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fuel power plants to address climate change. So, of course, the climate science-denying, fossil-fuel marionettes of the Trump regime are eager to get rid of it.
A new analysis shows that Hurricane Harvey was a once in 25,000 year event. But that doesn’t mean it will be another 25,000 years before another storm just like it occurs.
