Most readers will not feel the direct effects of the Trump administration’s rollback of the EPA regulations that had formerly kept toxic chemicals like mercury and arsenic out of our drinking water.
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Will Today’s Rollback of Regulations on Coal Plants Affect You?
Tagged with: 336 remaining coal-fired power plants, birth defects cases of childhood cancer, power plants to billow poisons into our waterways and the air we breathe, Trump administration's rollback of the EPA regulations that had formerly kept toxic chemicals like mercury and arsenic out of our drinking water
Ford’s EV Messaging Leaves Something To Be Desired
This isn’t an auspicious start to Ford’s campaign to become a leading player in electric transportation. They ask: Who says EVs aren’t fun to drive? Uh, no one? The EV adoption curve may be limited by range anxiety or the …
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The Perplexing Nature of U.S. Government Spending
According to my dashboard here at 2GreenEnergy, approximately 40% of people reading these words live outside U.S. borders, and these folks may not understand how it’s possible that the most powerful country on Earth could be so bizarre in its …
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Wind Turbines
Here’s a good investment of six minutes of your time; it’s a video on how wind turbines are made. What I didn’t understand until just now is the technology and workmanship that goes into creating the foundation such that the …
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The Market for Idiocy
In response to my piece on Michele Bachmann and Trump’s moral clarity, a reader notes, “Michele Bachmann is an idiot!” I would put it differently: she realizes that there is a market for idiocy, and she’s filling that unmet need. …
Indeed, Trump Has “Moral Clarity”
Apparently, some people are incensed about what 2012 presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann said here. I actually don’t argue that Trump has “moral clarity.” It’s perfectly clear where he stands on issues that have enormous moral impact: abandoning allies, destroying the …
Really? Trump Wants To Defund Libraries, Public Television? Couldn’t Be.
This is news? As if Trump has something to gain by fostering a population of literate people capable of free thinking?
Sea-Level Rise Now Projected To Be More Intense Than Previously Imagined
Those with a solid background in science, one far deeper than my own, may be able to wade through a new study published by the journal Nature Communications, in which scientists affiliated with the organization Climate Central and Princeton University explain how …
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Onward Christian Values
It’s the 502nd anniversary of the act of defiance for which Martin Luther is known today: nailing a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church, marking the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation and its …
Planting Trees Cost-Effectively
Each year, about 15 million acres of forest is turned into wood products, a total of more than 300 million since the 1990s. That’s about twice the area of Texas. The current cost of replanting this enormous area is about …
