Utilities Getting Regulatory Support for Screwing Solar Customers
Utilities, with regulatory backing, are working hard to turn homeowner investments in solar into economic white elephants.
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Satyajit Das: Age of Stagnation or Something Worse?
In The Age of Stagnation, author Satyajit Das has shifted from his usual wry detachment to a sense of foreboding.
Read more...France To Build 621 Miles Of Solar Roads
Solar roads sound too “gee whiz” to work. But it would be terrific if they did.
Read more...How Many Flints? America’s Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis
Flint is just the tip of the iceberg of lead poisoning in America.
Read more...The Greenhouse 100
A ranking of the top greenhouse gas producers in the US.
Read more...Flint: Let Them Drink Pollution?
Why the crisis in Flint, Michigan is about race and class, and the American nightmare of metastasizing inequality of wealth and power.
Read more...Flooded Cities
Major cities are often located in low-lying areas that are flood-prone. Worse, after being flooded out, people and businesses tend to return even when relocating is the better choice.
Read more...TTIP and Climate Change: Low Economic Benefits, Real Climate Risks
The TTIP could jeopardize the ability of the European Union and the United States to put in place the proper regulations to meet climate targets.
Read more...Gaius Publius: It Wasn’t Just Exxon — They All Knew
Exxon was not the only oil major that knew decades ago about global warming and chose to launch an agnotology campaign.
Read more...10 Foods That May Disappear Thanks to Climate Change
If you think climate change will help food production, think again. Many of the foods under threat are dietary staples.
Read more...Will China Be the Enforcer of the Paris Climate Agreement?
Yves here. While China has made impressive strides in technologies that reduce carbon emissions, I have trouble squaring that with their plans to build more coal-fired electricity generating plants. By Gaius Publius, a professional writer living on the West Coast of the United States and frequent contributor to DownWithTyranny, digby, Truthout, and Naked Capitalism. Follow […]
Read more...Report: Eagle Ford Shale Has Peaked, Lifting of Oil Export Ban Could Drain Field More Quickly
Geological fundamentals clearly show that high decline rates, limited sweet spots, and finite numbers of drilling locations will limit long term contributions to production.
Read more...Ilargi: CON21
To halt the demise of the planet, you can’t rely on the same people who cause it.
Read more...Gauis Publius: Making the US a Petro-State – White House Keeps Alive GOP Hopes for Lifting the Oil Export Ban
Why lifting the oil export ban is “appeasement” of Big Oil and needs to be stopped.
Read more...Connecting American Foreign Policy to Economic Policy
Can American foreign policy be made to work better for US citizens (outside the arms industry) and the rest of the world?
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