Air quality regulations are designed to help keep the public safe. Many of these regulations have been in effect for years. Here are a few that are working to reduce the amount of pollution that is released by industry. (more…)
Here’s an article called “No, Trump, Ice Isn’t Growing at Poles, and Yes, We Are Boiling the Earth,” written to refute Trump’s statement that the polar ice caps are in good shape and that climate scientists are wrong. (more…)
Question: The Koch brothers spent $20 million to pass the tax reform scam. What’s their ROI, i.e., the annual percent return they’re getting on that $20 million investment?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: As Bernie Sanders says, “The rich are using their wealth to pass legislation to make themselves even richer at the expense of working people. That’s not how democracy is supposed to work.”
Runoff from Icecap
I thought I’d reprint a comment that just came in from David Poppe in Alaska; it’s always good to get the viewpoint of the “man in the street.” He writes: (more…)
Don’t you love a good paradox? Here’s an article in Energy Today that raises an interesting question: How is it possible that the Trump administration dismisses climate change as a hoax, and the U.S. military, which Trump directs as its Commander in Chief, regards it as the single greatest long-term threat to national security? (more…)
With the recent and ongoing effects of global warming, billions of people all around the globe choose to switch from harmful and toxin-infused products as a protest. They aim to prevent and gradually lessen both the cause and effect of the said phenomena. And as one of the many results, many are switching and interested to turn their bathrooms eco-friendly. Conserving water and avoiding harmful products for your bath space won’t just benefit the environment anyway, but it will also eventually help you save money. (more…)
Here’s an astute and very fair note in response to my recent post The Solar Industry Takes a Hit, But It’s Not Alone from commenter “Wayne”: As a painter in Southern California for almost 40 years, I have witnessed an overwhelming invasion by illegal aliens in all segments of the trades that have clearly resulted in job losses and a stagnation of wages and nobody in some office can convince me otherwise. Nobody seemed to care about those jobs being lost except those affected, families and all. (more…)
While driving your car to work is more or less the norm for a lot of people out there, this method has some major flaws that people are deliberately ignoring. First of all, it is probably the most expensive way to commute out there since the price of the fuel you have to pay for a day-to-day commute to work surpasses the price of any public transportation ticket out there. (more…)
As I mentioned in a post the other day, a presidential administration whose mantra is “jobs!” should not take actions whose main consequence is putting people out of work, At the time, I was referring to the tariff on solar modules and cells that, according to industry data, will mean the end of 23,000 jobs installing and integrating solar energy. (more…)
If you had to defend yourself against an attack of swarming bees, would you use a hand gun?
Of course not. (more…)
