Category Archives: Environment

How Energy-Efficiency Upgrades Can Improve Your Health

An energy upgrade to your house will often produce other bennies!

The Mining Industry Is Replicating the Oil Sector Crisis

The push for green new energy faces a big hurdle via sharply rising prices of key inputs, due to years of underinvestment in mining.

Climate Deniers and the Language of Climate Obstruction

From narratives about fossil fuels as a solution to climate advocates as out of touch with reality, here’s how the fossil fuel industry and its allies are weaponizing words to delay climate action.

How to Stay Cool in Hot Weather

With heat waves becoming more prevalent due to climate change, planning ahead can help provide relief during the next hot spell.

Waste Watch: Colorado and New York Pass Right to Repair Measures

Two states, New York and Colorado, recently passed right to repair measures, covering digital electronics equipment and power wheelchairs.

As U.S. LNG Expands in Europe, a Hidden Threat Grows

Researchers and experts are warning about the danger of naturally occurring radiation in LNG to workers and communities in the US and Europe

The US War in Europe Isn’t Hot Enough – Dropping the Climate Bomb on Russia

Thane Gustafson in Klimat, Russia in the Age of Climate Change, says a lot about Russian energy and metals despite not consulting any experts

“One Reason Republican Lies About the Climate Crisis Work”

Republicans use the fact that tackling climate change will impose costs as a reason not to go there, while Dems largely finesse the issue.

NY Spurns Recycling Fairy, and Instead Considers New Extended Producer Responsibility Requirements

NY is poised to say no to plastics? Alas, no, but the state is mulling extended producer responsibility measures, to place the onus for waste management on plastics pushers rather than on consumers.

At Least 11 Dead in Wake of Michigan Tornado, Canada Derecho

As if tornadoes weren’t bad enough, you now need to add the derecho to your summer weather risks.

Book Review: An Urgent Plea to Save the World’s Megaforests

In “Ever Green,” two conservationists present a surprisingly hopeful look at the five five remaining megaforests.

Hydropower’s Future Is Clouded by Droughts, Floods and Climate Change – It’s Also Essential to the US Electric Grid

Why the hydropower magic bullet may come up short.

Seventeen States Sue EPA for Allowing California to Set Tougher Vehicle Emissions Standards

Seventeen Republican AGs sued to overturn EPA waiver allowing California to set tougher vehicale emissions standards.

Plastic Watch: Nanoplastics and Coffee Cups

Yet another reason to dispense with disposable coffee cups: nanoplastics, which are ingested when the coffee is drunk. The health implications of their ubiquity is unknown and has not yet been well-studied.