Thousands of flat, federally owned acres filled with creosote bush provide a migratory pathway for desert bighorn sheep. All of that could soon change, with Hidden Valley sold off and opened for development under a bill set to be reintroduced to Congress this year. Growth around Las Vegas has long relied on one thing: public lands. The …
More than 190 countries have reached a landmark deal for protecting the biodiversity of the world’s oceans, agreeing for the first time on a common framework for establishing new protected areas in international waters. The treaty, whose text was finalized Saturday night by diplomats at the U.N. headquarters after […]
United States Postal Service said it would spend nearly $10 billion to create one of the largest electric truck fleets in the nation. This is a good example of government as CUSTOMER who purchases add volume and infrastructure — which then brings down costs … making EVs more cost-effective.
Roughly 190 countries approved a sweeping UN agreement to protect 30% of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030 and to take other measures to arrest biodiversity loss. The agreement comes as biodiversity is declining worldwide at rates never seen before in human history.
Our CEO Ester Baiget: “Let’s stop subsidizing the past.” In 2020, fossil energy received 70% of global energy subsidies. 20% went to renewable energy. Fossils are our history, but cannot be our future. Learn more…
France just legislated that every parking lot for 80 cars or more must be covered by solar panels. That’s 11GW of new solar (same as 10 new nuclear reactors) powering millions of home – zero…
Liberals calling for changes to NEPA? Be it outright repeal or, as here, reforms to 1) give clean energy equal regulatory footing; 2) add limits to judicial review; 3) designate “energy security corridors” and 4) collect data on environmental reviews.
[Editor] Proving once again that American leadership can really accelerate efforts and sacrifices made by other countries.
from RMI: In country after country, sector after sector, fossil fuel demand has peaked and now faces a future of decline. This report develops a new framework, The Peak, Plateau, and Decline, to chart the shape of change.
Posted on August 5, 2022 at 4:35 PM Peter Joseph Dana’s presentation last night said it all, but here’s a compilation of articles and taking points (quotes) from a wide variety of sources, including…
Collectively we three authors of this article must have spent more than 80 years thinking about climate change. Why has it taken us so long to speak out about the obvious dangers of the concept of net zero? In our defence, the premise of net zero is deceptively simple – and we admit that it deceived us.
The draft proposal says a carbon tax is “the most impactful and transparent way to achieve meaningful progress on the dual goals of reducing greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions while simultaneously ensuring continued economic growth.” It also proposes a dividend!
