It’s Complicated: Biden, Right To Repair, Deere, Tesla, Apple, & You
President Biden’s latest executive order seeks to level the playing field between tech companies, manufacturers, and consumers. Will it play in Peoria?
Executive Order
Biden Orders End To Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Promotes Equity For Underserved Communities
President Biden this week issued an executive order mandating the government to reduce or eliminate all subsidies for fossil fuels and make climate justice a central focus of his adminisatration.
Paris Climate Accords Withdrawal Bought And Paid For By Koch Brothers
In the past 9 years, the US Congress had become a place where representatives are afraid to talk about climate change. How did that happen? Money, and lots of it, thanks to Citizens United.
Venture Capitalist Sends Message To Elon Musk: Dump Trump
Doug Derwin is a venture capitalist who has a message for Elon Musk — Dump Trump. He is spending his own money to convince Musk to stop supporting Donald Trump.
President Trump Puts US On “Inadequate” Path Towards Its Paris Agreement
The recent Executive Order signed by US President Donald Trump to roll back many of the country’s climate and energy regulations has set the country on a path to miss its Paris Agreement commitment for 2025 by a large margin, forcing the Climate Action Tracker to move the US from “medium” to an “inadequate” CAT rating.
Successful F-22 Flight on 50% Camelina Biofuel as Military Obeys Executive Order to Reduce GHGs
A proposed US military test that we covered two years ago, of a completely novel biofuel made from Camelina by SustainableOils, is a success.
Yesterday at Edwards Air Force Base, an F-22 just flew on a jet fuel blend containing 50% renewable biofuel derived from Camelina, a weed that grows easily on marginal land without water or nitrogen, is affected neither by drought nor cold, and has 80% lower carbon emissions than conventional fuel.
Recovery Act + Greenhouse-Gas Executive Order to Solar Power Alcatraz, Other National Parks
Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay is ending its $700,000-per-year diesel habit. It will replace the fossil fuel with a clean, fifty-year supply of free solar fuel this Spring. Two belching diesel generators that have till now provided the electricity to keep the lights on will be put out … [continued]
How The US Could Get Climate Safety At Copenhagen Even Without 67 Votes
Could President Obama do an end run round the very high bar of persuading 67 Senators (only 60 of whom are Democrats) to ratify a Copenhagen agreement? The Constitutional requirement to “make Treaties” only with the “Advice and Consent” only when “two thirds of the Senators present concur, ” is a … [continued]
Obama's Executive Order Enforces Smart Energy
President Obama has just signed an Executive Order that compels the largest consumer of energy in the US economy to invest in energy efficiency improvements to get to huge reductions in energy use by 2020. Every Federal agency must measure, manage, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to meet specific targets … [continued]
