Here’s an article called “Drop in city’s emissions chalked up to coal plant closures.” How totally unexpected. It’s along the lines of “Birth control reduces unwanted pregnancies.”
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Drop in City’s Emissions Chalked Up to Coal Plant Closures. Wow!
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The End of the “War on Coal”
Commenting on the wholesale environmental deregulation that the Trump administration has so successfully hurried along, an op-ed contributor to the Wall Street Journal notes, “Apparently, coal can be marketable, if regulators let it be.” Wow, that’s astute.
Bid Farewell To the Energy Star Program and Its Magnificent Contribution to Energy Efficiency and Conservation
It appears that the Trump administration will not let up on its war against the environment until the very last attempt to protect our natural ecosystems is repealed. On the chopping block this week is Energy Star program, established in …
The Pollution That Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Stay in Vegas
Here are two stories whose ultimate point is that pollution doesn’t stay in the place from which it was generated; it tends to spread itself around the globe. We start with the plight of Northern China, where the intensely thick …
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The Way of the World: More Solar, Less Coal
Here are a couple of stories that illustrate one simple truth about the migration to renewables: it’s happening. In the UK, more electricity energy was generated over the last six months by solar than by coal. At the same time, …
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Should We Ban Fracking?
Here’s a wonderful, well-balanced discussion on an extremely important subject: placing a ban on fracking. As the author correctly states, natural gas is often used to offset coal, which, as he explains, represents double the greenhouse gas emissions per BTU …
The World Since Newton, and What It Means To Us, Today and Tomorrow
It’s the birthday of Isaac Newton, perhaps the best-known person in the history of science. Though there was other genius to his credit, Newton’s celebrity derived mainly from his insight into universal gravitation and thus the Laws of Motion that …
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Can't Plants Sequester Our CO2 Emissions? — "Take a Cool Guess"
Contrary to popular belief, plants represent a net zero in terms of capturing CO2. While they’re alive, they convert carbon dioxide to sugar, but after they die, those more complex, higher-energy molecules break down and that carbon is re-released into …
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Uninformed Critics (Often Pro-Nuke People) Attack Renewable Energy with Loud, Though Specious Arguments
I’m often called upon to defend renewable energy against its critics. Here are my words of rebuttal to Alex Cannara, a nuclear advocate who for some reason feels compelled to denigrate renewables at every opportunity. My remarks are in italics …
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The Coal Industry Offers Jobs
A reader notes: The L.A. Times had an editorial today about the obvious need to abandon coal as an energy source, and yet what to do about the coal miners and others whose jobs directly exist because of that industry…..It gets …
