Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:25:18 +0000
After decades of foot-dragging by petrochemical stakeholders, solutions to the ocean plastic pollution crisis are beginning to emerge.
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:38:02 +0000
The text of the following statement was released by the Government of the United States of America and European Union. The eleventh United States–European Union (EU) Energy Council (“Council”) met [on Friday] in Washington, chaired by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy David M. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:59:05 +0000
Fossil fuels continue to dominate our lives even though they are causing harm to our communities. Isn’t it time to stop using them?
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:05:04 +0000
A shocking new theory suggests that Big Oil could be criminally prosecuted for a number of climate crimes in state courts.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 22:59:51 +0000
For several years I’ve been iterating The Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work. The work of organizations like Mark Z. Jacobson’s Stanford team around energy and Carbon Drawdown’s around everything are excellent in different ways, but also indigestible to most people. The short list really is that. It’s … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:44:35 +0000
For the same energy inputs you could travel 3 times as far for a 5th the CO2 emissions and well under half the cost in an electric truck.
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 03:35:52 +0000
Over the last four winters, winter storms Uri (February 2021), Elliott (December 2022), and most recently, Heather (January 2024) interrupted weekly U.S. natural gas production by more than 15 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), according to daily estimates from S&P Global Commodity Insights. These declines were the largest interruptions … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:47:46 +0000
It’s an election year, so, well, everything must be viewed skeptically. So it was that recently an ad popped up purporting to stand up for free speech, which, according to the ad, knows no political colors. Hm. Cool. Seems innocuous. What could possibly go wrong, right? I checked out their … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:16:32 +0000
The United States produced more crude oil than any nation at any time, according to our International Energy Statistics, for the past six years in a row. Crude oil production in the United States, including condensate, averaged 12.9 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2023, breaking the previous U.S. and global … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 22:15:05 +0000
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finally released its climate emission disclosure rules. Investors have been worried about … [continued]
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