Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 02:22:38 +0000
Tri State Generating & Transmission serves over 1 million customers in the American West. It announced this week it is closing several coal-fired plants early and building 8 new renewable energy projects in order to transition to 50% renewables by 2024.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:25:15 +0000
Electricity from renewables is expected to be the largest source of new electrical supply in 2020. But fossil fuels continue to dominate total US energy usage
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 03:25:20 +0000
In his annual letter to business leaders, the head of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm, says sustainability and climate change will now be part of all investment decisions. Is this a watershed moment in the campaign to rid the world of the scourge of fossil fuels?
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:31:17 +0000
A Delta flight bound for Shanghai had to make an emergency fuel dump earlier today. That fuel rained down upon Los Angeles near a school playground. Around 40 people were injured, the AJC reports
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:27:03 +0000
The “Stop the Money Pipeline” Mobilization aims to end the financing of fossil fuels and deforestation.
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:00:24 +0000
The biggest, hottest, most enticing CleanTechnica stories last week were led by Sony unveiling an electric car, the impossible-to-comprehend scale of this month’s Australian wildfires, and a solar energy storage device from the 1980s that has come back to life. You may have noticed something unusual by now — there wasn’t a single Tesla story in the top 3! That’s the first time in a long time, and ironic considering that Tesla stock [TSLA] went bonkers last week (and is still going bonkers)
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 03:32:39 +0000
Lexus was basically claiming that the fuel or power for the vehicle was free
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 21:15:15 +0000
In a New York Times opinion piece, Bill McKibben urges readers to stop doing business with banks that fund climate destruction like JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 03:49:39 +0000
Tesla concepts of mobility outgrew legacy brands from the day the first Tesla rolled onto the market. The new company did not fit into any existing auto-manufacturer slot. Tesla jumped away from the crowd conceptually, and landed on its feet
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 01:41:22 +0000
Pleasantly called natural gas and sold to many as a better solution, a good transition fuel, natural gas has been dominating new US electricity capacity alongside renewable energy. Yet, hydraulic fracking absolutely takes the “natural” out of it. Originally, natural gas was successfully sold as a cleaner transition fuel. Who knew there were not even laws on the books to address the hidden pollutants, and that there would be much information lacking about the truth of the acid stimulation, hydraulic fracturing, and other new extraction technologies