Rural Solar Opponents About To Face Tsunami Of PV
Rural solar advocates are punching back against the opposition with a new alliance between conservation, agriculture, and environmental organizations.
Union of Concerned Scientists
It’s Getting Easier For US Car Owners To Go Electric
Since the beginning of 2022, electric vehicle sales in the United States have been downright electrifying. Last year, US drivers bought more than 800,000 new electric vehicles (EVs), 65 percent more than in 2021, even as overall car sales declined. Those 807,956 EVs accounted for 5.8 percent of all new … [continued]
We Reviewed More Than 150 Papers on Water Management. Here’s What We Learned.
In my previous life as a graduate student, I worked with hydroeconomic modeling. I recently had the opportunity to jump back into that type of research with colleagues from the University of California Davis and Merced. If hydroeconomic modeling sounds like jargon, that’s because it is. In a nutshell, hydroeconomic … [continued]
EVs Can Support Power Grid Reliability & Reduce Costs. Here’s How.
I’m not going to beat around the bush: the past few years have not been great for the U.S. power grid, particularly when it comes to grid reliability. There have been high-profile rotating power outages caused by a heatwave in California (August 2020), a winter storm in Texas (February 2021), and another winter storm in Tennessee and … [continued]
How Will EPA’s Proposed Power Plant Carbon Rule Impact Public Health?
We are at the height of Danger Season, the time of year when extreme weather events driven by climate change are most prevalent across North America. The power sector is the second highest source of climate pollution in the U.S. Thus, it is crucial that we address carbon emissions from … [continued]
Batteries Now Can Replace Old Power Plants
Most of the oldest fossil fuel power plants in the United States are located near or in cities, making it more urgent — and more difficult — to shut them down. Now, with the changes in arcane rules announced just last week by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), it … [continued]
Oppenheimer Remains Largely Faithful To History, But Some Critical Pieces Are Missing
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is the biggest pop culture event about nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War. The film, inspired by the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, is a frenetic and action-packed portrait not just of a man but … [continued]
Ask A Scientist: Scientists & Arms Control From Oppenheimer To Today
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, director of Dunkirk, Interstellar and The Dark Knight trilogy, the film was inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
USA Needs To Protect Its Farmworkers From “Danger Season”
Farmworkers face many hazards while performing the labor that props up the $1.264 trillion US food and farm economy, yet a new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found that federal agencies focused on agriculture and health invested an average of only $16.2 million dollars per year in … [continued]
It’s Danger Season & Workers Need Heat Safety Protections Now — UPS Knows It
What would be the largest single-employer strike in US history may soon be avoided if UPS and the Teamsters union reach an agreement on adding life-saving cooling equipment in more than 90,000 fleet vehicles. UPS is the largest employer here in Louisville, Kentucky, so a strike would have serious implications … [continued]
