Is it now already too late to adequately respond to or prevent extreme anthropogenic climate change? That possibility was noted by the noted public figure Neil deGrasse Tyson in a recent interview with Fareed Zakaria.
CNN recently posted a summary of its favorite luxury SUVs, and the Tesla Model X unsurprisingly took top honors. It is fantastic to see the car win that ranks higher in safety, lower in emissions, lower in cost per mile to drive, highest in airborne pollution filtration (what’s up, HEPA filtration!), and … [continued]
According to data gathered from GM OnStar, Chevy Volts have collectively traveled over one billion miles. Over half were driven on electricity.
This article was originally published on Streetsblog Capitol Hill: Last Friday, CNN’s Anderson Cooper ran a segment about high-speed rail as part of his “Keeping Them Honest” series. Reporter Drew Griffin did an “exposé” of a Vermont rail project that spent .00006 percent of the federal stimulus money on needed track improvements … [continued]
Coal provides jobs. The jobs are dirty, they produce a product that’s harmful to the planet, hazardous to the health and welfare of the workers and their neighbors, but… hey, they’re jobs.
Besides, some of those jobs involve improving our mountains. They blow the tops off them, and haul away the coal, leaving flat tops, suitable for landing pads, parking lots, Nascar racing, or Appalachian soccer matches.
Farming in many regions of the US is likely to be among the worst casualties of climate change over the next decades. So it is an obvious, ethical, sensible and responsible move that John Deere supports climate and energy legislation to reduce our use of climate-changing fossil fuels, through its … [continued]
