Coincidentally, two of today’s most powerful entities, Donald Trump, the leader of the free world, and ExxonMobil, the planet’s largest oil company, have something extremely important in common: they’re both desperately trying to make the legal processes (that are steadily …
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Dubious Defense Strategy Pervades 2018 Criminal Procedings: The Investigation Against Me Must Stop
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Clean Transportation Vs. States’ Rights–It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
The federal government is doing everything in its power to dismantle the environmental progress the U.S. has made in the last half century, but it’s facing stiff opposition from the more progressive states.
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Coal Gives Way To Solar
….And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares.” This familiar quote is from the Book of Isiah, and meaning, of course, that the Lord is commanding us to convert something that used to be a weapon into a tool of …
Climate Gentrification: Why Environmentalism and Social Justice Are Two Sides…..
Many people wonder why some rich people can have such remarkably callous disregard for the well-being of the planet, given that everyone, rich and poor, will suffer from the effects of climate change, air pollution, ocean acidification, loss of biodiveristy, …
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Concept in Energy Storage
A fellow in Sudan wrote to ask me about energy storage by compressing a large spring, pointing out, quite correctly, that the force associated with compressing a spring is a function of the distance over which the force is applied, …
Shuttering Coal Plants Has Immediate Benefits to Children’s Health
This short video from Yale Climate Connections provides the results of a study done on children’s health, based on tests performed on two groups of subjects: those born two years before the closing of a coal-fired power plant in China, and …
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Embarrassment
I hope the 95% of the world’s population living outside the U.S. understands how deeply ashamed of our country most of us Americans are. Before this nauseating trend, we had to embarrass ourselves by traveling around Europe with our gauche …
It’s Come To This
I had a sad realization when I woke up this morning, summed up in the following little story: About 40 years ago, I played poker with a friend’s relatives, who were relatively poor and uneducated but laudably honest, hard-working, good-willed …
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Coal Plant Retirements
Below is a diagram that lays out the location and size of each of the 33 coal-fired power plants in the U.S. that will be decommissioned in the next four years.
A Few Are Getting Rich By Ruining Our Planet, But What’s the Attraction?
Here, Dan Rather makes the point I’ve been trying to communicate since environmentalism started to dominate my life about 10 years ago. What exactly is the attraction of enriching oneself by ruining the quality of life for everyone living on …
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