Low on water, California farme...
If California is to meet its goal of running on 100-percent clean electricity by 2045, fields that once grew hay are going to have to start producing electrons.
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The golden-cheeked warbler, an endangered songbird native to Central Texas, always seems to be flitting around controversy.
read moreSo Long and Thanks for all the...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has once again washed its hands of its responsibility to protect the health and safety of our waterways.
read moreAn Absence of Energy Leadershi...
These are interesting times for electricity regulators and legislators in the 13 US states, from the Mid-Atlantic through the Ohio Valley to Illinois, that share authority with PJM and FERC. PJM has been in direct conflict with state activity and autonomy in regulating environmental effects from energy power production.
read moreActivists Call on Retiring FER...
For the past 30 years FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, has voted in favor of 398 out of 400 applications for mostly fracked gas interstate pipelines and related projects.
read moreBerkeley bans: straws, plastic...
Environmentalists have cheered “valve turners” who illegally cut off oil and gas flows through pipelines. Now their political allies are turning off valves on gas pipelines that connect to buildings in their own towns.
read moreFewer Inspections for Aging Nu...
A new report by staff members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees the safety of the nation’s 59 aging nuclear power plants, recommends that the commissioners significantly weaken or reduce safety inspections of the plants.
read more‘We Can’t Sit on the Sid...
“Regardless of how we feel about the term ‘climate change,’ the one thing I hope we all agree on is that each of us individually, as companies, impact the environment,” he said. “And it is our responsibility to do everything we can to make sure that we can be respectful in terms of that impact.”
read moreNational Grid to NYC customers...
On Monday, the leading distributor of natural gas in the Northeast, National Grid, sent an urgent-sounding email to many of its New York customers —
read moreMaine Hits Clean Energy Grand ...
As a baseball fan, I’m looking forward to watching the best players in the world compete for bragging rights in the 90th Major League Baseball All-Star game tonight. As a Maine resident for the past 11 years, I’m even more thrilled to see Maine regain its all-star status as a clean energy leader.
read moreVirtual Pipelines: A Dangerous...
For several years a mysterious fleet of tractor trailers loaded with natural gas cylinders has been crisscrossing U.S. roads, and in the dark early morning hours on Sunday, March 3, one drove off a highway near Cobleskill, New York, careened down an embankment, and flipped over.
read moreThe Latest Signs We Are Cookin...
A European Union satellite has confirmed that June was the hottest month on earth since scientific record-keeping began around 1850.
read moreU.N. Chief Warns Paris Climate...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates—U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres took his global message urging immediate climate action to officials gathered in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, where production of hydrocarbons remains a key driver of the economy.
read moreToday’s Fossil Fuel Infr...
To stay within the Paris climate goals, coal and other fossil fuel-fired power plants would have to shut down early or be retrofitted for carbon capture.
read moreThere’s a new EPA air sheriff ...
Out with one EPA official with close ties to big polluters, in with Anne Idsal, a little-known, politically connected Texan with a shaky grasp on climate science.
read moreGeneral Electric’s multi-billi...
A new report says the industrial giant misread the tea leaves on clean energy — and should serve as a warning to businesses worldwide.
read moreEPA’s air pollution chie...
EPA air pollution chief Bill Wehrum is leaving the Environmental Protection Agency after House Democrats began an investigation into his ties to his old law firm.
read moreAs Coal Fades in the U.S., Nat...
America’s coal-burning power plants are shutting down at a rapid pace, forcing electric utilities to face the next big climate question: Embrace natural gas, or shift aggressively to renewable energy?
read moreWhat the ‘Fossil Fuel Ec...
“Unless we change course now and treat the crisis for what it is, we will continue to see more disasters like today.”
read more100 times more pollution than ...
The numbers are stunning: Methane pollution from ammonia fertilizer plants is 100 times higher than what the industry reports, and substantially above what the Environmental Protection Agency estimates for all industrial processes in the United States.
read moreLargest Tennesee Solar Landfil...
C2 Energy Capital recently announced the completion of the largest Tennessee solar power landfill project.
read moreNew York Passes Ambitious Clim...
The state legislation drew widespread praise for its goals, but also concerns that it fell short on support for disadvantaged communities.
read moreTrudeau Approval of Tar Sands ...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday is reportedly expected to approve a $5.5 billion expansion of the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline, a move environmentalists warned would make an “absolute mockery” of the House of Commons’ vote to declare a climate emergency just hours earlier.
read moreSolar, Wind, & Batteries ...
The continuing decline in costs for wind, solar, and battery storage technology will drive a global power grid half-powered by renewables by 2050, according to new projections published this week by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
read moreE.P.A. Finalizes Its Plan to R...
Loading coal at the Spring Creek Mine in southern Montana. The mine’s owner, Cloud Peak Energy, declared bankruptcy in May.
read moreRenewables are winning the eco...
By 2030, wind and solar will “undercut existing coal and gas almost everywhere.”
read moreInnovative window solar charge...
Recently launched on Kickstarter, the Window Solar Charger was conceived from the idea that everyone should be able to generate their own clean energy.
read moreVirginia ban on uranium mining...
The largest-known U.S. uranium deposit will remain firmly under ground after the Supreme Court on Monday upheld Virginia’s ban on mining the radioactive metal, rebuffing a challenge backed by President Donald Trump’s administration to the 1982 moratorium.
read moreDecentralized Microgridding Ca...
“The new approach could even pave the way for 100 percent self-sufficiency in power, heat, and water.”
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