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The delay appears to be an acknowledgment that the court decision is a significant setback for what President Trump has called his policy of “energy dominance” — an effort to rapidly expand oil and gas drilling across the country.
read moreThe peer pressure to clean up the electric grid is gripping the country.
read moreIn the 1980s, NASA scientist James Hansen brought climate change to the attention of Congress, and shortly thereafter the public. Humans, he testified in 1988, were responsible for rising global temperatures.
read moreThe year-old firm has trained laid-off coal workers to become software coders.
read moreThe Brayton Point coal-fired generating station was one of the dirtiest polluters in New England for decades.
read moreIn an arid, lunar-like landscape in the sunny highlands of northern Argentina, South America’s largest solar farm is rising, powered by funding and technology from China.
read moreSpats between members of Congress are seldom worth much attention, but an amusing one that happened between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Garland “Andy” Barr (R-Ky.) tells us a lot about how Democrats and Republicans think about the past, present and future of the American economy-
read moreMillions of Americans lack access to solar energy because they cannot afford the steep upfront costs.
read moreOver the last three weeks, the Houston, TX area has been besieged by chemical fires—the latest resulting in the death of one person and the hospitalization of two others.
read moreThe gas industry and its allies in Congress hope to push LNG exports to the island’s electricity grid, ravaged from climate change-fueled natural disaster.
read moreWe are squandering millions of acres of our children’s inheritance and using it to destroy the planet.
read moreThink of California as a kind of green Robin Hood. For six years now, it has been taking money from polluters and spending it to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
read more“We think humans are the best designers, but this is not really true,” a researcher said.
read moreThe money could make the country more resilient — if it doesn’t just end up causing more conflict and corruption.
read moreWhen the EPA and the Department of Interior announced plans to scrap Obama-era regulations to curb methane leaks last year, they were transparent about their rationale — they wanted to help the oil and gas industry.
read moreDecarbonizing buildings: it’s tedious, but oh so necessary.
read moreHigh-speed trains already compete with planes in many parts of the world. They also have far lower carbon emissions.
read moreFour climate activists attempted to shut down the Enbridge Line 3 and Line 4 pipelines, which carry oil from Canada’s tar sands region into the U.S., on Monday.
read moreAshkin won half the 2018 prize in physics for his role in developing technology that makes very small beings “levitate” using only light. He did that work at Bell Labs in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s.
read more“Oil and gas has already devastated our state’s air quality, water quality and flow, and public health. It’s clear the Trump administration will stop at nothing to sacrifice public interest for private profits.”
read moreBut a study recently published in Nature Sustainability highlights the fact that communities of color are also disproportionately missing out on the benefits of rooftop solar power.
read more“It’s clear that Enbridge is doing everything they can to have a very highly skilled force of security and law enforcement at their fingertips to do what they can to stop any resistance to Line 3.”
read moreNearly a quarter-century after winning millions from PG&E, the ‘Erin Brockovich’ town continues its fight for clean water.
read moreThere are a variety of ways to go green in the home, such as recycling, using less water, opting for plastic alternatives, and cutting down on energy use.
read moreThe sun doesn’t always shine! The wind doesn’t always blow! There’s never enough renewable energy when you need it most! Only fossil fuels can make the grid reliable! We hear this sort of blather from fossil fuel apologists all the time.
read moreThe burgeoning love affair between Americans and renewable energy is turning into a love triangle with natural gas.
read moreWe interrupt the mainstream media narrative about fake infrastructure (Trump’s border wall) with news about real infrastructure.
read moreOne of the ongoing arguments that the forces opposed to dealing with climate change make is that transitioning the grid to renewables will be economically devastating.
read moreThe curious death of Initiative 1631 and what it says about the future of addressing climate change.
read moreIncreasing ship traffic, sonar and seismic air gun blasts now planned for offshore drilling may be disrupting migration, reproduction and even the chatter of the seas’ creatures.
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