Amid Pushback, the USGS Decides to Restore Its Pesticide Database
Scientists say the resource is crucial for understanding what agricultural chemicals are doing to human health and the environment.
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How Revillaging and Natural Building Are Increasing Climate Resilience
Some grass roots initiatives by architects and community members to increase climate resilience by improving building and local planning.
Read more...The Growing Environmental Footprint Of Generative AI
AI runs on power-hungry equipment that uses millions of gallons of fresh water. Policymakers are weighing the costs.
Read more...Carmakers’ EV Enthusiasm Fizzles Out as Consumers Pull Back
Automakers are warning EV sales are falling short of the level needed to meet climate change containment goals. What to do?
Read more...New Study Questions LNG as a “Bridge Fuel” in Decarbonization
Biden taps the brakes on LNG expansion. A sop to environmentalists or a sign of things to come?
Read more...Net-Zero Targets Face Reality Check
Net-zero is staring to look like a big zero. Not at all good news to those who would like this planet to be hospitable in 100 years.
Read more...EU Farmers’ Protests, Food Security, and the Green New Deal Big Lie by Omission About Livelihoods
How the EU farmers’ protests illustrate the obstacles to climate change containment policies. And Green hopium has made matters worse.
Read more...Cancer in the Corn Belt Sparks Actions to Fight Farm Fertilizer Nitrate Contamination
Long-standing concerns about fertilizer runoff leading to toxic nitrates in water supplies look to be getting more traction.
Read more...‘Rooftop Solar Is the Future, but It’s Also a Scam’
The solar panel business illustrate how corporations will always find the least acceptable solution to any problem, as they have with AI
Read more...Further Discussion of Boeing’s Slow Motion Liquidation: Rational Given Probable Airline Industry Shrinkage?
More on Boeing as a symbol of industrial decline, here due to broader environmental and coming energy cost pressures.
Read more...Electric Vehicles Use Half the Energy of Gas-Powered Vehicles
An analysis of electric vehicles’ explains why they are much more efficient. But this take seems to omit some key variables.
Read more...AI Boom Could Slow U.S. Clean Grid Ambitions
AI is projected to consume lots of power. And no one seems to care much that that’s going to increase climate change damage.
Read more...Our Coming Insecure Energy Future: The Network Conundrum
A key issue for the vaunted energy transition seems not to have gotten the attention it warrants. Reader input appreciated!
Read more...Will Climate Engineering Really Save Us? Do Me a Favour
Tech-utopian hero worship, here in the form of geo-engineering hopium, is one of the social scourges of our time.
Read more...The Law Firm Helping Big Oil Weaponize the First Amendment
Gibson Dunn is “playing both sides” of free speech, using it to defend Big Oil and silence the industry’s critics.
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