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.
Category: Renewables – Business
From Guest Blogger Emily Jones: The Paradox of China: Most-polluting Nation on Earth Is Biggest Producer of Clean Energy
One of the images that many of us are accustomed to seeing of life in China is that of people wearing masks as they walk down the street.
Something’s Not Clicking in West Virginia
If your house is on fire, do you a) call 911, b) get everyone out safely, or c) find a flammable liquid and douse the fire liberally near the base of the flames? If you chose c), you have what it …
Portugal Selling Off Renewable Energy, As It’s Generating More Than It Can Consume
It seems that each week we get word that another country or major city has kicked the habit…the fossil fuel habit, that is.
From Guest Blogger Bára Sýkorová: Bank Debt and Fortune 500 Companies–How the Future of Renewable Energy Is Being Shaped
The way that renewables are being integrated into personal and community life does not solely depend on the backing from people or governments.
Advocates of Environment Stewardship Face Tenacious Opponents with Powerful Jaws and Sharp Teeth
I don’t want to sound self-absorbed, but I couldn’t help thinking of myself when I came across the video below. It reminds me of the work I do all day long, advancing the causes of my clients’ cleantech business interests, …
Tagged with: Environment Stewardship
Coal Plant Retirement
Environmentalists do a great deal of hand-wringing about the terrors of the Trump administration, but we tend to forget how powerful our legal system is when it comes down to actually rolling back regulations that have been lawfully put in …
Tagged with: coal kills 13000 annually while causing disease in hundreds of thousands of others, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, environmentalist, greedy planet-ruining pigs, protect the health and safety of all Americans, Scott Pruitt and his EPA are trying their damnedest to put a spear through the CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) Standards, terrors of the Trump administration, Trump loves coal
Trump’s Assault on the Environment Won’t Last
I spoke earlier today with a colleague whose renewable energy program in China just got derailed by Trump’s tariffs/nascent trade war; for that reason, he was understandably quite upset with the president. Uncharacteristically, I tried to mollify him about the …
From Guest Blogger Delicia Warren: What Businesses Can Do to Be More Environmentally Friendly
We all have a part to play in order to save our planet. Our unsustainable practices have changed the face of the earth, and continuing these unsustainable and wasteful ways of living and conducting business must stop. All businesses need …
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Coal Now Cheaper Than Ever
According to the American Energy Society, “Much like production of oil, gas and all renewables, new innovations have improved coal mining productivity in the US by 26% in the last five years, reaching 6.8 tons per miner hour in 2017, up from 5.4 tons …
