As reported by Green Tech Media: President Trump issued an executive order today to dismantle the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan — a policy designed to curb carbon emissions from new and existing power plants by accelerating the adoption …
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The green movement is not new; it started in the 19th century right after the industrial revolution and its related environmental degradation. It was a time when growth and innovation went hand in hand with chemical waste and pollution. The …
The stock market has responded quite well to Trump’s removal of environmental regulations. But it appears that the initial glee may be replaced with grave concern, and many economists warn of a serious correction. What’s the issue?
Question: Here are the first two slides from an investor deck seeking investment capital for a diesel fuel additive that claims to create better fuel mileage and fewer emissions. While I don’t doubt the claims, I offer these slides and …
Perhaps the single saddest aspect of the Trump Administration’s war on the environment is that, though it’s premised on growing the economy, it comes at enormous hard costs in terms of human health alone.
It’s no surprise that Trump’s presidency is in the process of reversing the progress that the U.S. has made over the last half century vis-a-vis environmental protection and climate change mitigation; after all, that was one of his campaign promises, …
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According to this article in Scientific American called What Rural Alaska Can Teach the World about Renewable Energy, “Remote communities have integrated renewables into their diesel-based power grids with more success than anywhere else.”
I wish there were a way to spin this article in Forbes as exciting “new news,” but it’s been totally obvious now for several years: the plummeting costs of solar and wind energy is in the process of making everything …
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Here’s an article that outlines the reasons behind the rapid decline in the generation of electricity from coal-fired power plants. As predicted, it’s the basic economics, i.e., the costs associated with running coal plants in competition against natural gas and …
Even with all the ignorance and indifference to human suffering that are the hallmarks of the current administration here in the U.S., economics appears to be winning the day, ushering in massive amounts of wind energy at the expense of …
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