In the first ruling of its kind nationwide, a Montana state court decided Monday in favor of young people who alleged the state violated their right to a “clean and healthful environment” by promoting the use of fossil fuels. The court determined that a provision in the Montana Environmental Policy Act has harmed the state’s environment and the young plaintiffs, and is, accordingly, unconstitutional.
If you’ve been listening to the world’s major energy companies over the past few years, you probably think the clean energy transition is well on its way. But with fossil fuel use and emissions still rising, it is not moving nearly fast enough to address the climate crisis. In June, Shell became the latest of the big oil companies to curb plans …
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A similar energy transition is already well underway in Europe and elsewhere. But the United States is catching up, and globally, change is happening at a pace that is surprising even the experts who track it closely. Wind and solar power are breaking records, and renewables are now expected to overtake coal by 2025 as the world’s largest source of electricity.
In response to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s proposal to plant a trillion trees, Maxine Joselow of The Washington Post wrote an article that included our analysis from the En-ROADS simulator.
The next time someone objects that investing in the transition will cost a lot of money, you can share this and other “hard economic” numbers — the heat imposes REAL costs not to mention the damage done to property, health and general well-being
from The Guardian It often seems that people are searching harder for evidence we’re defeated than that we can win by Rebecca Solnit Wed 26 Jul 2023 Stanford engineering professor and renewable energy expert Mark…
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The United States faces a conundrum in its course to adopt renewable energy. While the outlook for cleaner energy sources is positive, the country’s power infrastructure requires essential upgrades to make the transition worth the effort, time and money.
The study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications suggests that continued warming will push the AMOC over its “tipping point” … The shift would be as abrupt and irreversible and lead to dramatic changes in weather on either side of the Atlantic.
“This is a really worrying result,” said Peter Ditlevsen, a climate physicist at the University of Copenhagen and lead author of the new study. “This is really showing we need a hard foot on the brake” of greenhouse gas emissions.
Editor’s Note: This is a good explanation of why the Debt Ceiling bill only contained modest permitting reform and the changing politics of Republican support for permitting reform.
The lawsuit she filed in November goes after a who’s who of the fossil fuel industry — Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, BP and others. Ms. Sims argues that since 1965, those companies have produced 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while at the same time colluding to deceive the public about the disastrous consequences of their actions.
