How Much Will It Cost to Address Climate Change? Pennies Compared to the Alternative
Not surprisingly, climate change, if not checked, will have catastrophic economic effects.
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The Inevitable Death of Natural Gas as a ‘Bridge Fuel’
Renewables have become the low-cost fuel source for new power generation much faster than most anticipated, killing arguments to use natural gas as a bridge fuel away from coal-fired power generation. This is great news for the climate.
Read more...Plastic & Health: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
New report by Center for International Environmental Law warns: “Plastic is a Global Health Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight.”
Read more...Bills Criminalizing Pipeline Protest Arise in Statehouses Nationwide
Comprehensive overview of eight state-level initiatives promoted by oil and gas industry lobbyists to criminalize pipeline protests.
Read more...Agribusiness Is the Problem, Not the Solution
Why agribusiness isn’t well positioned to address hunger.
Read more...New Review of Dozens of Studies of Insect Population Decline, the Causes, and Things You Can Do
A review of the massive new study on insect population decline and its drivers.
Read more...How Energy Efficiency Delivers Green Dividends in Red and Blue States
Promoting and rewarding energy efficiency is popular even in conservative states, and is an important way to get the green ball rolling and have some near-term impact.
Read more...Climate Damages: Uncertain but Ominous, or $51 per Ton of Carbon?
The dark and contested art of pricing carbon emissions.
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...AOC and Ed Markey Introduce Green New Deal Resolution (and Let’s Remember It’s a DEAL)
The “climate” and “justice” sides of the Green New Deal.
Read more...Our Plastics, Our Selves
Account of the research expedition undertaken by the vessel The Sea Dragon to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Ubiquitous plastic is affecting marine life, and humans, in ways scientists are only beginning to to understand.
Read more...Why Suburbs Must Be the Next Frontier for Cities Policy
The challenge of suburbs for social and environmental policy.
Read more...Why Not Start Saving the Biosphere by Outlawing Private Jets?
A forcing device for how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in one industry
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.
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