The city council for Washington, DC has voted unanimously in favor of a renewable energy standard that will see 100% of the city’s electricity come from renewables by 2032. The Senate, meanwhile, has voted to recommend the appointment of Koch stooge Bernard McNamee to FERC.
People who should know better in Australia, Canada, and the US are spreading the lie that renewable energy is to blame for high electricity prices. Is there a connection behind this web of deceit?
Well funded fear-mongering PR machines are taking advantages of the vulnerabilities of the press and other media and Tesla and Elon Musk are at the intersection of their attacks.
Is Elon Musk serious? Is it a good idea? Is announcing it on Twitter legal? Who wins and loses? How will individuals invest in Tesla after this? What could stop it? What’s next?
ExxonMobil has parted company with ALEC, the Koch Brothers’ front organization that pushes reactionary legislation at the state level. Apparently the breakup had to do with a dispute about greenhouse gas emissions.
I’ve read many wonderful pieces of work from POLITICO. The outfit has a great crew of political reporters who sometimes break huge stories. The op-eds and in-depth political analyses can be superb. From time to time, POLITICO has been the top source I’ve relied on for US political coverage … and funny cartoons.
High atop Mauna Loa on the island of Hawai’i, there is an observatory scientists use to study the cosmos. At 14,000 feet above sea level, it has a clearer view of the heavens than most places on Earth. (It is a neighbor of Kilauea, the volcano that erupted this week after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the island.) The observatory is also an ideal place to monitor the Earth’s atmosphere in a place with no local pollution from large cities. One of the instruments installed there measures the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air.
The National Association of Manufacturers and the Competitive Enterprise Institute sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year accusing the five plaintiffs of lying to investors by not disclosing the very effects of climate change complained of to municipal bond buyers
More than 80% of white evangelicals support the anti-science policies of Donald Trump. Why? Millions of dollars of Koch Brothers money is one possible answer.
Activists in Maryland have persuaded the Baltimore city council to pass a measure banning any new crude oil exporting facilities within the city. How long will that victory survive an assault by the oil industry?
