States & Cities Are Driving Climate & Clean Energy Progress
Part of NRDC’s Series Reviewing 2020 Climate & Clean Energy Developments
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Electric Vehicles: The Dirty Nickel Problem
Electric vehicles are only a small part of the world vehicle market, but this is expected to change. While there are several competing battery chemistries which are likely to be used in this emerging market, many of them contain significant amounts of nickel.
6 Graphics Explain The Climate Feedback Loop Fueling US Fires
Fires blazing across the Western United States have claimed dozens of lives, destroyed countless properties, displaced hundreds of thousands of residents, and worsened air quality at a time when the coronavirus pandemic threatens respiratory health.
Fossil Fuel Drilling Is Making Texans Sick (Video)
In Texas, methane leaking from fracking sites is not only heating the planet. It’s also making people ill. Locals have reported headaches, nosebleeds, and respiratory problems, and they are calling on fossil fuel companies to clean up their act.
150 Years Ago, Scientists Understood The Climate Better Than The EPA Head Does Today
The current head of the US Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt does not believe or understand long-known principles of climate science and basic physics. Recently he claimed on CNBC that carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to global warming:
G7 Urgency On Climate Buoys Paris Hopes
Energy ministers from the Group of Seven industrial nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States) have all agreed today on the world’s critical need to corral quickly worsening climate change. The G7 energy leaders have met for two days in Hamburg, Germany, the second … [continued]
Why The INDC Climate Pledges Are Better Than They Look: Part 1
It’s Day 1 after the soft March 31 deadline the United Nations set in Lima for developed nations to submit official plans (INDCs) for their individual efforts to combat climate change. Remember what’s new about these numbers: they represent the world’s first bottom-up estimates, determined by the emitting countries themselves … [continued]
Farming Now Worse For Climate Than Deforestation, Land Use Change
Thanks to protracted temblors in the US (and some other English-speaking nations) over the role of fossil fuels in generating climate change, many of us sometimes forget that agriculture, deforestation, and land use change (AFOLU, for short) also emit a large proportion of greenhouse gases. Those with a rough idea … [continued]
European Wind Farms Only Have Minimal Impact On European Climate
A new study has found that the development of wind farms in Europe only has “an extremely limited impact” on the continental climate, a situation that is expected to remain the same until 2020. The research was led by two French laboratories — the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de … [continued]
Counting The Social Cost Of Carbon
Originally published by The Climate Reality Project It’s just common sense. Each year, here in the U.S., we generate a certain amount of carbon pollution. And each year, climate change driven by carbon pollution impacts our lives in all kinds of waysfrom flooded homes to higher insurance rates, each of which … [continued]
