Tightening Nickel Supply Threatens Electric Vehicle Boom
Nickel supplies are a new electronic vehice maker worry.
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Low on Water, California Farmers Turn to Solar Farming
Some California farmers are shifting their “crops” to reduce water use. But is it too little, too late?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy
The fatal combination of the national security state’s mentality and oil industry lobbying threatens to destroy the planet’s climate.
Read more...Why We Need Publicly Owned Energy for a Green New Deal
Moving to zero carbon output requires a decentralized, publicly-owned energy system.
Read more...Why Consumers Aren’t Buying Electric Cars
Press and affluenza enthusiasm for electric vehicles is ahead of mass consumer appetite.
Read more...Climate Equity: What Is It?
Why the AOC-Kamala Harris climate equity scheme fails as climate and economic policy.
Read more...Carbon Dividends: A Plan for Earth’s Survival that Can Survive U.S. Politics?
Yves here. Carbon dividends are a way to create support for setting a price for carbon. None other than those starry-eyed granola heads at Financial Times called for setting a price for carbon in 2007. Pigovian taxes (ones meant to discourage activity, like transactions taxes) should typically not be seen as revenue generators, since you […]
Read more...Carmakers and California Agree on Emissions Rules
Carmakers agree to comply “voluntarily” with California’s tightened emissions standards – thus thwarting Trump plans to rollback proposed nationwide rules.
Read more...New Study Predicts Millions of Americans May Become Exposed to “Off the Charts” Heat
Climate scientist Michael Mann discusses the increasing frequency and severity of heat waves, as we’ve seen in India, the US, and now Europe.
Read more...The World’s Biggest Lawsuit: Juliana v. United States
“This case gives me hope that we will not continue to cooperate in our own destruction, and future generations will be able to rely on us to uphold the spirit of the law and purpose behind government” –Attorney
Read more...Rising Emissions Are Robbing Us of Nutrients
Yet another reason to combat carbon emissions: More of them = less healthy food.
Read more...‘This Is the Beginning’: New Study Warns Climate Crisis May Have Been Pivotal in Rise of Drug-Resistant Superbug
How rising temperatures helped create superbug C. auris and may turn other fungi lethal.
Read more...Keeping the Oil in the Soil
The goal of any serious climate policy is to keep oil and other fossil fuels in the ground. The central question is how.
Read more...As Flood Risks Rise Across the US, It’s Time to Recognize the Limits of Levees
How levees become counterproductive as flood severity increases.
Read more...Waste Watch: Why Do We Discard So Many Edible Fish We Pull From the Sea?
New House of Lords report laments failure to slow discarding edible fish back into the sea; Australia also tosses much of its catch.
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