California’s North Coast Wine Industry: How “Sustainable” Is It?
How California’s wine industry contributes to the drought and spends big bucks to tell consumers otherwise.
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Gaius Publius: California Drought, the “Bigger Water Crisis” & the Consumer Economy
The California drought is exacerbating severe, structural problems with water use in the West.
Read more...Michael Hoexter: Climate Defeatism is as Much a Threat to Human Survival as Climate Denial – Part 1
Human beings face the choice whether to preserve parts of our present civilization or create elements of a new one or alternatively, head towards self-extinction.
Read more...Dirty Energy vs. Clean Power, The Past Battles the Future at Seneca Lake
How Seneca Lake in upstate New York became a key battleground in the fight over fracking.
Read more...Military Spending Could Give Big Boost to Renewable Energy
The military has a keen interest in reducing its dependence on conventional fuel sources for transportation and the spending heft to speed development.
Read more...Bill Black: A Harvard Don is Enraged that Pope Francis is “Opposed to the World Economic Order”
An economics professor rails against Pope Francis for daring to point out that we don’t live in the best of all possible worlds.
Read more...Naomi Oreskes: The Hoax of Climate Change Denial
How climate change denialists have opened up a new front in their attacks on climate science.
Read more...Michael Hoexter: The Climate (and Climate Justice!) Movement Cannot Remain a Genteel Environmentalist Movement
Hoexter examines the disconnect between the preferred methods of climate activists versus the magnitude and urgency of the issues they are trying to address. His analysis echoes an important 2012 post by Richard Kline, Progressively Losing.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Only Solution to Climate Change — Outlaw Fossil Fuel Production
Limiting greenhouse gas production requires more radical measures to reduce fossil fuel use, and that means on production as well.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Constant Cost of Carbon — Another California Oil Spill
The climate/political nexus behind the latest California oil spill.
Read more...Ron Wyden Calls NAFTA Insufficient Now; In 1993, He Called It a “Vote For Less Pollution”
One of the common rhetorical tropes supporters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership have used to sell it is to declaim all prior trade agreements as inferior, relative to this bright, shiny and new deal. Ron Wyden, the Democrat in Congress most responsible for moving TPP through, gave a particularly juicy example of this yesterday.
Read more...How Much Longer Can The Oil Age Last?
I suspect readers will draw suitably concerned environmental conclusions from this forecast, that the oil era has at least another 30 years to run.
Read more...Resilience is The New Black
Why sustainability has failed and “resilience” is replacing it.
Read more...The Gazprom Case: Good Timing or Bad Timing?
Just a week after having sent a Statement of Objections (SO) in the frame of the antitrust case against Google, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager sent yesterday an SO in the frame of the case against Gazprom. The decision to send a charge sheet against the Russian gas company came after almost three years of investigations, which have also seen EU antitrust officials raiding Gazprom offices in central and eastern European countries.
Read more...California Urban Water Use Restricted While Regulators Give Oil Industry Two More Years To Operate Injection Wells In Protected Groundwater Aquifers
The Department of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources has improperly permitted as many as 2,500 injection wells in groundwater aquifers.
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