by Madeleine Sheehan Perkins, Business Insider A coalition of US economic, education, and local government leaders announced on Monday they will continue to abide by the Paris agreement regardless of America’s withdrawal, forming the We Are Still In movement. The coalition represents 120 million Americans and $6.2 trillion of the US economy. In total, the group includes 125 […]
By Jane Mayer, The New Yorker If there was any lingering doubt that a tiny clique of fossil-fuel barons has captured America’s energy and environmental policies, it was dispelled last week, when the Trump Administration withdrew from the Paris climate accord. Surveys showed that a majority of Americans in literally every state wanted to remain […]
by Carl Pope, Huffington Post Donald Trump has done what Al Gore, Jim Hansen, climate scientists, the Sierra Club and the rest of the environmental movement could never do – make climate disruption breaking cable TV news. Trump’s histrionic, largely symbolic and recklessly self-destructive decision to abandon the Paris Climate Agreement means, among other things, […]
by Sammy Roth, Desert Sun As President Donald Trump dithers on the fate of the Paris climate deal, California and other western states are banding together to reduce carbon emissions and save hundreds of millions of dollars — and now a Canadian province will join them. British Columbia’s main electric utility said Tuesday it will join the Energy Imbalance […]
by Zahra Hirji, Georgina Gustin, and Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News Research and development in clean cars and renewable energy would be slashed more than 70 percent, NASA climate programs would be cut, and EPA would lose 31 percent. President Donald Trump‘s budget plan for fiscal year 2018 systematically takes a knife to climate research and programs […]
by Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News The rule limits venting and flaring gas, a move the Obama administration estimated would prevent 180,000 tons of methane from leaking into the atmosphere every year. The Senate on Wednesday rejected a bid to overturn an Obama-era rule that limits climate-warming methane leaks from oil and gas operations on […]
by the Editorial Board, New York Times Until recently, China and India have been cast as obstacles, at the very least reluctant conscripts, in the battle against climate change. That reputation looks very much out-of-date now that both countries have greatly accelerated their investments in cost-effective renewable energy sources — and reduced their reliance on […]
The below article by Jim Morris and Sasha Khokha of the California Report, KQED speaks to the environmental justice issues that the Central Valley is facing - and how much Community Choice Energy could benefit the people there. The Center for Climate Protection is working with partners in the Central Valley to try to forward […]
by Tim Buckley, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis The Indian energy market transformation is accelerating under Energy Minister Piyush Goyal’s leadership. The most recent and most persuasive evidence is the collapsing cost of solar electricity—a collapse that has gone beyond anyone’s expectations, and the results are in: solar has won. The global energy […]
by Danielle Ola, PV Tech Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe signed 11 bills earlier this week that promote solar and other renewable energy resources such as pumped hydro. The bills include proposals for establishing a community solar pilot project, include energy storage in the mission of the state solar development authority and increase the size of clean […]
