Plastics Watch: Recycling, Raccoons, and Rubbish
Even a massive recycling campaign won’t make a dent in the plastics problem, as long as the industry ramps up production; some thoughts on raccoons, and rubbish.
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The One Metric That Matters For Electric Cars
Looking at the hurdles electric cars have to surmount.
Read more...Ilargi: Energy vs Waste
Why the problem of human energy consumption is intractable.
Read more...Carbon Taxes and Carbon Pricing Are Not Solutions to the Climate Crisis
A short-form debunking of a popular but unsound idea for addressing carbon emissions.
Read more...Flip Flop: UK Halts Fracking in England, Effective Immediately, Over Earthquake Fears
UK halts all fracking in England with immediate effect. On its face, a big win, but will the Tories make the moratorium permanent?
Read more...‘Is This About the Oil Industry?’ House Oversight Hearing Explores Big Oil’s Role in Weakening Clean Car Standards
Oil industry lobbies to weaken emissions standards, deploying “public interest groups” that are mere mouthpieces for fossil fuel companies.
Read more...The Oil Mystery Undermining An Aramco IPO
Why might investors be skittish about Aramco’s oil reserve claims?
Read more...California Blackout: Turning the Lights Off
So first came the blackout….
Read more...Why Taking Responsibility for Our Carbon Emissions Means Promoting the Right to Repair
Back to the future means not just considering the ability to repair but more actively purchases of new goods just for the thrill of acquisition.
Read more...Climate Change: New York AG Takes Exxon to Trial This Week; Massachusetts Poised to Follow
New York begins climate change trial against Exxon Monday; meanwhile, Massachusetts is readying its own action.
Read more...Will the Public End up Paying to Clean up the Fracking Boom?
Justin Mikulka continues his excellent coverage of fracking for DeSmogBlog.
Read more...Unsustainable California: No Easy Remedy for PG&E Blackouts, Fire Risks
California prototypically lead the US. It’s PG&E infrastructure failure and lack of good remedies to escalating wildfire risks are the latest example.
Read more...Will the Fracking Revolution Peak Before Ever Making Money?
Latest installment in Justin Mikulka’s excellent DeSmogBlog series on fracking follies.
Read more...Trump’s Latest Trade War Move Sends Oil Tanking
Oil markets see Trump’s continuing China trade threats as a downer.
Read more...From 2014: R. Hunter Biden Should Declare Who Really Owns His New Ukrainian Employer, Burisma Holdings
ive years later, Richard Smiths’s 2014 deep dive into Ukraine’s Burisma Holdings, then and now of Hunter Biden fame, provides detail you won’t find anywhere else.
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