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...A high-level discussion of some of the operational issues posed by a Green New Deal.
Read more...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...The Green New Deal proposal has exposed widening rifts within the Democratic Party as presidential candidates begin fleshing out their 2020 platforms.
Read more...Kudos to India for banning plastics waste imports, to focus on solving its own waste management problem. Meanwhile, fossil fuel interests ramp up plans to produce more plastics.
Read more...The debate over the Green New Deal reinforces why government policy should focus on real resource constraints.
Read more...A discussion of carbon taxes, cap and trade, and why neither is adequate by itself to change behavior.
Read more...Not surprisingly, climate change, if not checked, will have catastrophic economic effects.
Read more...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...New report by Center for International Environmental Law warns: “Plastic is a Global Health Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight.”
Read more...Comprehensive overview of eight state-level initiatives promoted by oil and gas industry lobbyists to criminalize pipeline protests.
Read more...Why agribusiness isn’t well positioned to address hunger.
Read more...A review of the massive new study on insect population decline and its drivers.
Read more...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...The dark and contested art of pricing carbon emissions.
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