If you want bold action on climate change, vote for candidates who advocate for reducing the amount of fossil fuels extracted, not just those who want to curb emissions. That’s the advice of two New York Times op-ed writers, including presidential candidate Jay Inslee.
It’s chilling seeing a young man riding an electric scooter on a main street with only flip-flops and a pair of shorts. You can’t help wonder how long. … You know what I mean — how long until the first fatality. And then it happened. I got home and heard about a 24-year-young man who passed away after falling off one.
And now make way for laws and politicians.
The EPA has announced it will freeze vehicle fuel economy standards and rescind the waiver that allows California to set its own transportation emissions standards. Car makers are jubilant, even if they won’t admit it publicly.
Climate advocates James Hansen and Bill McKibben are still committed to effective policies that will address global warming. One is pessimistic while one is cautiously optimistic.
This press release comes to us from the good folks at CDP. I really believe that businesses have the power (and responsibility) to drive change towards a more sustainable planet, and it’s great to hear that California Governor Jerry Brown has made a call to some major corporations asking them … [continued]
Yale Environment 360 and Environment America are working to expand the amount of renewable energy in America and support the Paris climate accords at the local level.
As Kirsten Grind’s reporting on Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) in the Wall Street Journal expanded, the mortgage banking lobby’s anti-PACE talking points were embraced.
Rooftop solar power prices have been dropping. Home energy storage prices have been dropping. New and increasingly compelling electric vehicles keep coming to market. These are cleantech topics that come up daily as these industries keep growing and growing. However, there are transformative elements of the cleantech world that stem from more nuanced business innovations and policies. One of those is Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing.
California governor Jerry Brown has signed an executive order that sets a goal of 5 million zero emissions cars on the state’s roads by 2030. The state will invest $2.5 billion to greatly expand the number of charging and hydrogen refueling stations available to California residents.
Every year, the California Energy Commission releases its Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) report, which gives details about the mix of energy experienced by all utilities within the state during the preceding 12 months. The report for this year, released in November, shows that all three of the state’s investor-owned utilities — Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric — are projected to derive 50% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020. That is a full decade ahead of schedule. PG&E reports it used 32.9% renewable energy in the past year. The figure for SoCal Edison was 28.2%. San Diego Gas & Electric led the pack with 43.2% renewable energy.
