With each successive cabinet nomination, it becomes increasingly clear how much damage the incoming administration is going to inflict on government departments on which 330 million people depend to add various forms of value to their lives–justice, environmental safety, health, …
Category: Renewables – Politics
What Happens When We Appoint the Worst Possible People to the Most Powerful Positions on Earth? We’ll Find Out Soon
Tagged with: Powerful Positions
Criticize Trump At Your Peril
From this article: Last week the CEO of Boeing had the gall to come out and criticize Trump’s stance on China in his recent rhetoric, in the meekest possible terms, noting that Boeing sold more aircraft to China than …
The Incoming Secretary of State in the U.S.
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 …
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.”
