Happy Earth Day 2019
Today is Earth Day, the theme: Protect Our Species. Much has changed since the first Earth Day: April 22, 1970. Individual action alone won’t save the planet, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing one can do.
Read more...Today is Earth Day, the theme: Protect Our Species. Much has changed since the first Earth Day: April 22, 1970. Individual action alone won’t save the planet, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing one can do.
Read more...NYC last week passed a modest Green New Deal. This initiative falls far, far short of where climate change policy needs to go, but is certainly an improvement on the fossil fuel-friendly agenda of the Trump administration (and its predecessors).
Read more...US federal district judge Brian Morris dealt a serious setback to the Trump administration’s agenda of resuming coal mining on federal lands.
Read more...In this Real News Network interview, Bill Black examines the VW emissions scandal and discusses how corruption has become endemic in corporate Germany, and why the SEC and DoJ are targeting VW.
Read more...The latest in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on fracking follies.
Read more...Looking at some of the non-CO2 costs of increasing renewable energy production and distribution.
Read more...Monetary policy favors carbon-intensive industries. Time to stop doing that.
Read more...How solar array projects enable low-income groups to save money and help the environment.
Read more...Plastic water bottles foul European waters. Why? This is a problem that can and should be fixed. Less plastic in European rivers means less plastic in the world’s oceans.
Read more...Insects are the waste management contractors of ecosystems.
Read more...Nuclear power has a worse reputation than it deserves.
Read more...Why our societies will remain dependent on fossil fuels much longer than we’d like.
Read more...Climate scientist Robert Koop argues for national investment in universities analogous to that of long-standing cooperative extension programs but applied to scientific climate risk management.
Read more...The policy options to solve or ameliorate flooding on the Missouri River are not obvious (at least to me).
Read more...Review of the Midwest flooding, history of the New Deal and flood control, and the Green New Deal and flood control.
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