Energy Equity: Bringing Solar Power to Low-Income Communities
How solar array projects enable low-income groups to save money and help the environment.
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Are You Biased Against Nuclear Power? Yup, Say Scientists
Nuclear power has a worse reputation than it deserves.
Read more...Gail Tverberg: The True Feasibility of Moving Away from Fossil Fuels
Why our societies will remain dependent on fossil fuels much longer than we’d like.
Read more...U.S. ‘’Oil Weapon’’ Could Change Geopolitics Forever
Oil production as a source of political advantage will no doubt keep official US climate change denialism alive and well.
Read more...Who’s Behind Trump’s Claim the Green New Deal Will Cost $100 Trillion?
President Trump’s claim that the Green New Deal would cost $100 trillion can be traced back to the Manhattan Institute, a think tank backed by fossil fuel investor Paul Singer and companies like ExxonMobil.
Read more...Fracking 2.0 Was a Financial Disaster, Will Fracking 3.0 Be Different?
The latest installment in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on fracking. The industry continues to promote new and improved saviors – this time, it’s Microsoft – to rescue it from an inconvenient truth: no one’s making any money, despite the high environmental costs incurred.
Read more...Power Failure and Blackout: An Update on the Situation in Venezuela
It seems to be taking the United States rather a long time to topple the Maduro government.
Read more...Have We Already Passed World Peak Oil and World Peak Coal?
Gail Tverberg extends her peak oil analysis to coal and finds a similar pattern.
Read more...The Permian Is A Double-Edged Sword For Oil Majors
There are still questions about the profitability of the Chevron’s assets in West Texas.
Read more...Will The U.S. Actively Pursue Regime Change In Iran?
The US is still awfully eager to Do Something in Iran.
Read more...Climate Policy: On Buying Insurance, and Ignoring Cost-Benefit Analysis
Rethinking the analysis of climate change risk.
Read more...Are Investors Finally Waking up to North America’s Fracked Gas Crisis?
The latest in Justin Mikulka’s excellent coverage on the fracking beat for DeSmog Blog.
Read more...A Serious Green New Deal Would Take Up One-Third of the Economy—Are We Ready for That?
Looking at some of the ramifications of a Green New Deal.
Read more...How the Peak Oil Story Could Be “Close,” But Not Quite Right
An in-depth look at the “peak oil” thesis and how well its predictions are playing out.
Read more...Venezuela Coup Attempt Part of US Plan to Remake Latin America
Unfortunately, US support of the attempted coup in Venezuela is just one part of planned interventions south of the border.
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