A commenter notes: Rex Tillerson (Trump’s nominee to head the State Department–pictured here with bromance partner Vladimir Putin) may have many admirable qualities, but it would be difficult to find a candidate more likely to cause fear and alarm among …
Category: Renewables – Politics
Aggressive Writing Styles May Affect Readership Levels
A commenter points out that I may get more readers if I soften my tone. He has a point here, but I am incapable of writing in any other way. If I watered this down to politically correct, unoffensive drivel, …
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U.S. Politics Has Gotten Corrupt: How Controversial Is That?
In response to my post on Donald Trump’s cabinet nominations, in which I asserted that ripping apart our government with the appointment of hateful, unqualified yes-man bozos is a criminal act, frequent commenter MarcoPolo notes: “It’s a great shame when …
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Tagged with: Donald Trump's cabinet nominations
EPA Opponent May Head Agency
One of the many things I admire about my colleague Jon LeSage of Green Auto Digest is his even-tempered, objective reporting style. The current edition is a good example, in which he notes that the incoming administrator of the Environmental …
Diverting the U.S. from Its Current Collision Course with Disasater
I hope you’ll check out this video. IMO, Bernie’s right here.
Tagged with: migration to renewable energy
Gauging the Implications of Trump’s Victory
I received a note this morning from a dear friend wondering if I shared the same sense of shock at the election of Donald Trump as she and her husband felt. She went on to say that she believes that …
Tagged with: costs of renewables, efficiency solutions, electric transportation, Garrison Keillor, gutting of CAFE standards in transportation, horrified by the implications of the Trump administration, incoming Secretary of Labor Andrew Puzder, lifting of restrictions on pollution from fossil fuel plants, opening up of federal lands to oil and gas exploration, regressive policies will have a limited effect, the dismantling of the EPA, the revocation of the Clean Power Plan, US pulling out of the Paris Accord
Will Environmentalists Find the Actions of the Trump Administration To Be “Interesting?”
My colleague Jon LeSage writes in his Green Auto Digest: “There’s one thing I can guarantee you about 2017: industry conferences and events are going to be very interesting. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s abrupt decision on November 30 to …
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What You Need To Be Reading from the Harvard Business Review
Here’s a hopeful article in the Harvard Business Review called “The Fortune 500 Can’t Go Along with a Rollback on Climate Policy.” As much as I try to stay away from cynicism, I have to say, “Good luck with that.”
Communities Going Off the Grid In Record Number
The election of Donald Trump as U.S. President has generated considerable hand-wringing among environmentalists, and it seems to become more intense with each passing nomination of a right-wing extremist to a cabinet position, and each tweet from the president-elect himself …
Another Interesting But Immaterial Fact About the U.S. Election
Here’s one more vexing, albeit inconsequential fact about the U.S. presidential election earlier this month, offered in this article called The 2016 Election Pitted Booming Cities Against Stagnant Rural Areas. It’s a tally of the counties won by each candidate, …
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Tagged with: degraded state of American democracy
