6 Economic Experts Reveal the Truth About the Inflation Reduction Act
Is the Inflation Reduction Act good for your wallet? A climate bill in disguise? Landmark action or nothingburger?
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The Economic Case for ‘Blue Hydrogen’ Is Getting Worse. Cue the Lobbyists.
DeSmog has mapped the fossil fuel interests lobbying for gas-derived hydrogen and threatening to derail the momentum of green hydrogen.
Read more...Will Europe Go Down to Defeat Before Ukraine?
Europe has succeeded in hurting itself to hurt Russia, to the degree that a full bore economic and financial crisis seems inevitable.
Read more...If You Thought This Summer’s Heat Waves Were Bad, a New Study Has Some Disturbing News About Dangerous Heat
The big heat is set to become more pervasive. A look at projections on where and how bad how soon.
Read more...The Reveal from Drought’s Receding Waters: Not Just the Bodies in Lake Mead
Water and oil don’t mix.
Read more...How Climate Change Spurs Megadroughts
Why megadroughts are becoming part of the new normal.
Read more...Thanks to Manchin, IRA’s Methane Fee on Big Oil Is Riddled With Massive Holes
The IRA methane emissions penalty “was weakened so that it applies to basically no one,” said one climate campaigner.
Read more...Most Bleak Federal Report Yet on High-Tide/Sunny-Day Tide Floods
Tide floods on otherwise normal high tide days are yet another global warming warning sign.
Read more...A Next-Level Water Crisis: Colorado River Basin Faces Tier 2 Restrictions
More on the intensifying Colorado River water crisis.
Read more...Influential Oil Company Scenarios for Combating Climate Change Don’t Actually Meet the Paris Agreement Goals, Our New Analysis Shows
How Big Oil plays data games with the Paris Agreement climate targets, already seen by many as too permissive.
Read more...Climate Bill Passes: It Could Short-Circuit EV Tax Credits, Making Qualifying for Them Nearly Impossible
Did Joe Manchin sneak an EV poison pill of sorts into the just-passed climate legislation?
Read more...The Fervent Debate Over the Best Way to Confront Global Warming
Supporters of cutting carbon emissions to tackle global warming have long struggled against advocates of climate-change adaptation strategies
Read more...An Unjustified Fear of Nuclear Energy Is Holding the Industry Back
Why consumers might have to reconcile themselves to much disliked nuclear energy as less bad than other options.
Read more...Dodgy Demand Data? The Oil Price Collapse Conspiracy
John here. Environmental concerns and tighter regulations reduced investment in refineries. Tight refining capacity then drove the high crack spreads, but they have recently. This long-term strategy to reduce the use of fossil fuels by raising prices is achieving its goal, but at the predictable cost of people using less fuel. Gas stations, largely independent […]
Read more...The Supreme Court’s Own Goal on Climate Change
Why the Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency looks more like hacker than jurisprudence.
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