A growing chorus agrees the expansion of the natural gas industry, which feeds plastics and petrochemical plants like Shell’s, is moving the U.S. in the wrong direction to prevent catastrophic impacts from climate change.
Read more...How PG&E came to dominate California’s electricity market, plus discussion of options to fix the fiery mess it has created.
Read more...Venice illustrates how climate change will force a sort of triage upon us, and it won’t be just about our cultural heritage.
Read more...Why most economists considerably underestimate the cost of climate change.
Read more...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.
Read more...The rail industry has been able to hide behind the skirts of Big Oil in climate denialism.
Read more...The Neo-Assyrian empire illustrates how fortunes rise and fall with climate.
Read more...Looking at the hurdles electric cars have to surmount.
Read more...Why the problem of human energy consumption is intractable.
Read more...A short-form debunking of a popular but unsound idea for addressing carbon emissions.
Read more...Monsanto wins $7.7 billion Brazil lawsuit – thus preventing farmers from saving seeds for replanting if the seeds are harvested from Monsanto’s patented Roundup Ready soybeans,.
Read more...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...PG&E cut power to millions throughout California this month as fires blaze across the state. The move has prompted many to call to municipalize the company. Democracy Collaborative researcher Johanna Bozuwa explains.
Read more...Oil industry lobbies to weaken emissions standards, deploying “public interest groups” that are mere mouthpieces for fossil fuel companies.
Read more...Increased fire risk is creating new behaviors in California. May be coming to your area soon….
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