How extreme weather will affect the insurance and energy sectors
Energy systems are being pushed to the brink by wind storms and heatwaves, compounded by gas shortages and price rises caused by the war in Ukraine.
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Plastic Pollution Is a Crime Against People and the Planet
Plastic particles and chemicals pollute all of our bodies. But people living on the fencelines of the fossil fuel, plastic, and waste industries face even more life-threatening pollution.
No, AI Won’t Outsmart Our Climate Calamity
Artificial intelligence devours vast energy while clouding the human wisdom that might save us.
The race to end fossil fuel production
Given all this Green rhetoric and crude (oil) action, it’s hard to find examples around the world where people are actually doing something to end fossil fuel production.
Climate activists in New England can finally celebrate ‘the end of coal’
When we fight, we really do win. And what we win is the ultimate bulwark against climate grief and despair. We find each other.
UK professor condemns own university over collaboration with oil giant
A senior professor has accused his own university of betraying its values by working with ExxonMobil on a project that has been condemned as greenwash.
Canceled Canadian CCS Project Deemed ‘Not Economically Feasible’
Critics say the considerable amount of financial resources already dedicated to CCS have effectively been wasted, particularly when the means to cheaply decarbonize the grid – such as solar panels or wind turbines – are already available.
Wind and solar are ‘fastest-growing electricity sources in history’
Wind and solar are growing faster than any other sources of electricity in history, according to new analysis from thinktank Ember.
Fracking Quakes Have Surged Near Fort St. John
Experts tracking a tremorous trend in northeastern B.C. notched another data point on April 13. In the early morning hours that day, a fracking-caused earthquake tripped the British Columbia Energy Regulator’s drilling shutdown switch.
How a Neighborhood Co-op Started by Teens Helped Communities Around the U.S. Adopt Solar Power
The nonprofit Solar United Neighbors (SUN) is one group working to help communities move away from fossil fuels toward solar power.
You are Formally Invited to a Livable Future (Empty chairs will be noted.)
While Mayor Bowser, like so many officials, declines her constituency’s invitation to become a part of building a livable future, the growing movement behind this vision will fight on, with or without her.
Does US Climate Policy Have a Herring Problem?
It is nearly impossible to conceive of any significant environmental regulation over the past four decades that has not involved the application of the “Chevron deference.” It’s one reason conservatives and others, e.g., the fossil fuel industry, are now rooting for the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to strike down the deference—in the name of the separation of powers set out by the US Constitution.