Two-week UN climate change summit kicks off in Poland, to flesh out details of the 2015 Paris Accord. Politicians have dithered about what action to take, in part diverted by the disinformation spread by fossil fuel companies.
Read more...House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee conducts hearing on waste in the fashion industry – particularly, ‘fast fashion’.
Read more...Schools waste $5 million a day in uneaten food. Here’s how Oakland is reinventing the cafeteria.
Read more...A brief recap of the newly-released Federal report on climate change.
Read more...BECCS has big problems with its inputs and its outputs. Perhaps other solution to global warming should be prioritized.
Read more...Earth to economists: you are a big part of the climate change problem.
Read more...Yet more official climate change denialism…
Read more...A quick kneecapping of some deliberate misconstruction on the global warming front.
Read more...The fracking industry has a wastewater disposal problem and finds itself in a pick your poison situation, with no good alternatives. Americans will continue to bear the environmental costs of the nationwide fracking experiment.
Read more...Trump’s “progress” in gutting environmental protections.
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Last week, there were three (major) California wildfires in the news: The Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise in Northern California, and the Hill and Woolsey fires in Southern California, which are still burning, not entirely contained. Here is a map: And here is a shot of the […]
Read more...A round-up of mid-term results pertaining to climate change.
Read more...A rare bit of positive news on the global warming front: oil demand topped out in developed economies and emerging economies are increasingly fighting both internal combustion engines and single use plastics.
Read more...US Copyright Office issues a rule that allows a right to repair for smartphones, home appliances, home systems, and motorized land vehicles – including tractors. The rule is imperfect and the Empire will certainly strike back as Congress explores further necessary measures.
Read more...This important post discusses the link between climate change and increased plastics production via the creation of a Plastics Belt in the former Rust Belt, using natural gas derived from fracking.
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