Petroleum companies in Texas are asking for $12 billion in federal funds to support the construction of a 60-mile coastal concrete wall that, among its other functions, will protect the region’s largest petrochemical facilities from rising sea levels and destructive storm waves. (more…)
A reader who is battling prostate cancer writes:
Here is an article on primate diets, showing that our human ancestors were nearly all vegetarians. (more…)
Well, it could have been done at the time TR said this; now that’s not so clear. Yet as recently as a few years ago, it seems that the move to overturn Citizens United and get money out of politics was gaining ground, since such a change is endorsed by virtually the entirety of the political spectrum, from the anti-fascists to the tea party. (more…)
The Natural Resources Defense Council is a United States-based, non-profit international environmental advocacy group. (more…)
When I ran into a colleague from the National Renewable Energy Lab at Intersolar (huge solar convention) a few years ago, he told me that one of his top priorities was the development of perovskite as a substrate for high efficiency solar panels. Here’s a short blurb on the subject from the American Energy Society: (more…)
Part of the beauty of life is the vast range of choices we have about our basic lifestyle. Very few people in the developed world ever think seriously of adopting some life purpose other than working and raising kids, but that’s not due to a dearth of options. (more…)
There are Americans who think that our country’s on the right track, and that our president is making us great again. (more…)
It’s useful to look at the planetary transition from fossil fuels to renewables in three phases: (more…)
Here’s a news article about Ford’s financial woes, how the trade tariffs have cost them $1 billion this this year and forced them to lay of 24,000 employees. It makes one wonder: How many of them voted for Trump, and how many support him now? (more…)
Andrew Wheeler during his confirmation hearing
Earlier this week, a three-person team from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), including its president, its director of Center for Science and Democracy, and its director of their Clean Vehicles Program were, after waiting for over four months, finally granted a meeting with Andrew Wheeler, the acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (more…)
