The “war on coal” was not so much a confrontation as it was the result of the inexorable economic pressure placed on energy markets. Strange though it may sound, the demise of coal has very little to do with environmental and …
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The main reason that I haven’t written a book in the last few years is that I’ve come to understand that the issues thwarting environmental sustainability have relatively little to do with the technological and economic aspects of things like …
From today’s Los Angeles Times: President Trump is expected to head to West Virginia coal country today to drum up support for a draft replacement for the federal Clean Power Plan.
Senator Markey’s point is a good one: clean energy is a revolution (or an evolution) away from the antiquated ways of old. Like all such societal changes made for the better over the 10,000 years of human civilization, we learned, …
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.
