Surprise? EPA Cuts Enforcement on Polluters
Here’s news, if you can call it that, to the effect that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has greatly reduced its efforts to enforce regulations that affect corporate polluters. (more…)
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Puerto Rico and Renewable Energy
All hurricanes that make landfall in the U.S. and the Caribbean have one thing in common: they are energized and thus made more destructive by our changing climate, i.e., warmer air and water, as they cross the Atlantic. Yet the nature and extent of the wreckage that each one causes is unique. (more…)
A Bit Off-Topic, But Let’s Examine Trump’s Credibility
Aeroponics advocate and environmental activist Rafael Quezada writes:Donald Trump has been accused of sexual assault or harassment by 21 women. Here are their names: (more…)
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From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: Old Home Heating Problems–A Five-Step Guide to Energy Efficiency
Today, a good number of people around the world are aware of the benefits of conserving the environment. Companies, organizations as well as individual homeowners are taking the necessary steps to ensure that they adopt green practices. However, your old home will present a number of challenges when it comes to heating and lighting. If you are to achieve energy efficiency, there are several steps you may need to take. This will help you to protect the environment while at the same save you money in terms of energy bills. (more…)
Is Rex Tillerson Actually a Decent Human Being?
You know it’s a wild time when improbable events happen simultaneously, since the probability of any two events’ happening together is the arithmetic product of the events’ respective probabilities. (more…)
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A Contributed Post: Looking to Lower Your Operating Costs? This Article on Business Efficiency Can Help
When it comes to running a business, there are fewer line items larger than the simple cost of running your office. Or, as your budget would have you believe, the complicated cost. (more…)
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Study Shows Bad News for Arctic Sea Ice
What are the similarities between life on Earth today vs. 1500 years ago? Thankfully, not too many. The 6th Century CE saw the invention of backgammon and the first use of toilet paper, but outside of that, things we’re pretty barbaric.
Geologically, however, there is a huge parallel. From this report: (more…)
From Guest Blogger Brooke Chaplan: Four Ways Americans Can Pay Heed to Global Warming and Take Action
Whether you like to call it global warming or climate change, there is little doubt that the Earth is getting hotter. Fortunately, there are steps that you can take to minimize your impact on the changing climate. While these changes may be minor ones, they may have a major impact on how much energy you use and how much carbon you put into the atmosphere. (more…)
Fuel Efficiency Rating for EVs Make No Sense, But That Doesn’t Stop Us from Assigning Them
In this edition of Green Auto Digest, my colleague Jon LeSage (pictured) gets at an issue that struck me when I first got interested in electric transportation: the EPA’s mile-per-gallon ratings. We seem married to assigning MPG equivalents to EVs, even though these figures are clearly meaningless. (more…)
Trump’s Aggressive War on the Environment
Although this is funny, the environmental policies of the current Administration are far more malicious than suggested here. In fact, by subsidizing fossil fuels, removing tax credits for solar and wind, opening up federal lands to oil and gas exploration, eviscerating the EPA, green-lighting pipelines for tar sands, and thumbing its nose at every other country on Earth by withdrawing from the Paris Accord, the Trump administration isn’t passively ignoring the issue; it’s actively pouring gasoline onto the fire.
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