Looming Gas Shortage: “Imports Can’t Make Up For This”
Hurricane Harvey has shut down the Colonial pipeline indefinitely; east coast consumers soon to see gasoline shortages that imports can’t fix.
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Flood Protection: The US Should Go Dutch to Avoid Building Another Houston
Houston and US more generally should embrace a Dutch model of flood protection rather than focusing flood control efforts on post hoc clean-up.
Read more...How to Help the Neediest Harvey Victims, Wherever You Live
Please chip in to support an on-the-ground effort to help Hurricane Harvey victims.
Read more...G20 Climate Commitments and China’s One Belt One Road
A critical look at some wishful thinking about climate change and China’s One Belt One Road initiative.
Read more...New Jersey Food Waste Law Will Help Feed Hungry, And Mitigate Climate Change
NJ law aims to reduce food waste and help feed hungry. State climate change policies are key response in the absence of federal action.
Read more...Cobalt Production as the Hidden Choke Point on Mass Conversion to Electric Vehicles
Going from the internal combustion engine to electric vehicles is likely to hit a cobalt road block.
Read more...Juliana v. United States and the Principle of Intergenerational Equity in Climate Change Law
The best shot at large-scale climate action under the Trump administration might lie with a lawsuit set to go to trial early next year.
Read more...Telling the Climate Truth
What must be done to alleviate the coming climate change catastrophe.
Read more...Plastic Free July: What YOU Can Do to Reduce Plastics Waste
With a world drowning in plastics, there are steps you can take to reduce your consumption of single-use plastics.
Read more...Rising from the Ashes, a Buffalo Suburb Ends its Dependence on Coal
Environmental, labour, and community efforts meshed in working-class Tonawanda to create plan for future after its coal-fired plant closed.
Read more...Government’s Brexit Repeal Bill ‘Power Grab’ Threatens UK Environment Regulations
Brexit will require massive, rushed conforming changes to UK environmental law. Transparency will suffer, with dodgy backroom deals likely.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Finding the Greater Fool — The Elite Logic Behind “Going Over the Climate Cliff”
How the Secena Effect explains climate change apathy among the elite.
Read more...West Coast on an Acidification Trip; Fishing Industry in Peril
Ocean acidification produced by global warming is bleaching coral reefs and threatening ocean life, yet gets little media coverage.
Read more...Trump’s America Last
Why Trump’s rejection of the Paris Accord is a prescription for American non-competitiveness.
Read more...Supreme Court Lexmark Patent Decision A Win for State Right to Repair Legislation
Interprets patent exhaustion doctrine to prevent patent holders from imposing use and sale restrictions; implicitly endorses repair.
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