Here’s an article in Scientific American that lays out the basis on which one of Trump’s recent executive orders will result in more water pollution by undermining the 42-year-old Clean Water Act. The mechanism at work here is restricting the …
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Yes, the Earth’s Climate Never Stops Changing, But….
“Well, the Earth’s climate is always changing.” True.
Putting the Problems of the Third World Into Perspective
Here’s a video that hit me hard. I hope you’ll take a few minutes and let it sink in. It’s interesting that it’s sponsored by “WaterIsLife.com,” as it’s a reminder that third world’s problems include the sad and inexcusable fact …
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Gutting Vehicle Emissions Standards…..ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I’m hesitant to write posts that are completely predictable in their content. Does anyone want to read that the sun rose in the east this morning? OK, since you’re still here, the Trump administration’s EPA, run by career EPA opponent …
Energy Investment Non-Starters
Most of the clean energy “investment opportunities” I turn down are marred by huge technology risk, requirement for additional development capital, lack of “skin in the game” on the part of developers, an exec team clearly comprised of yahoos, or …
The New American Federal Government: Trying Desperately To Rid the World of Biodiversity
Living in America right now is like reading a bad dystopian novel, one in which it’s impossible to get engaged because no one could possibly suspend his disbelief that things could go so wrong. Here’s a great example. Our Congress …
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Trump’s Assault on the Environment is Just a Small Sliver of the Whole
Those of us who see the world primarily through an environmental lens tend to focus our anguish on things like the gutting of the EPA, the construction of new pipelines, the overturn of the Clean Power Plan, the Clean Air …
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Extreme Weather Events You Never Thought You’d See
As the Earth continues to warm and the permafrost melts in Northern Russia, a great number of things are happening: some invisible, like the releasing of enormous amounts of the highly potent greenhouse methane that has been sequestered for thousands …
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Setting Stratospheric Records in Wind Power
The main reason to be “Bullish on Renewable Energy“ (as the saying goes) is that to a large degree, its expansion is independent of politics. According to Reuters, for a brief period last Sunday, the U.S. powered a full 50% of its …
Market Forces Driving the Adoption of Renewables
Here’s another installment of my colleague Jon LeSage’s Green Auto Digest, which I happily republish–even when his viewpoints diverge from my own. Here, Jon makes the point that market forces are driving the energy industry increasingly in the direction of …
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