Quelle Surprise! Pollution Pays!
A study of DuPont’s failure to clean up emissions of a toxic chemical shows pollution is economical rational. Too bad the remedies are lame.
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The Wine Country Fires: Is Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) a Rogue Utility?
PG&E, tree-trimming, and profit.
Read more...The High Price of Cheap Cannabis
Big ag is moving into cannabis farming, which means less sustainable practices. Can “little pot” find a way to survive?
Read more...Tax Breaks Make $50 Oil Profitable in the U.S.
A short overview of the importance of tax breaks to oil company profits.
Read more...Sneaky Trump Scheme Guarantees Profits of Coal and Nuclear Power Plant Owners
Trump’s latest giveaway: a massive subsidy to coal and nuclear plant operators via unnecessary and costly electricity backup requirements.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Capitalism, Infinite Growth, Climate Change & Manufactured Hopelessness
Looking at the disastrously high cost of the fetishization of growth.
Read more...The Situation in Puerto Rico: Power, Water, and PROMESA
Puerto Rico’s austerity under PROMESA begets power failure begets water contamination and disease
Read more...The Climate Change Land Rush: When Will People Start Leaving Coastal Cities?
Most of the world’s biggest cities are coastal cities. What happens when people start realizing they are threatened?
Read more...Fast Fashion: Magical Shift in Consumption Patterns Will Save the Planet?
Forbes thinks that emerging markets consumers might save the planet from fast fashion folly. Ahem. I’m not so sure.
Read more...California Rewrites the GOP’s Climate Playbook
Some California Republican legislators are breaking ranks and beginning to embrace modest pro-regulatory positions on climate change.
Read more...What Hurricane Harvey Says About Risk, Climate, and Resilience
Only someone profoundly pessimistic would bet against the ability of American ingenuity to repower our economy.
Read more...Looming Gas Shortage: “Imports Can’t Make Up For This”
Hurricane Harvey has shut down the Colonial pipeline indefinitely; east coast consumers soon to see gasoline shortages that imports can’t fix.
Read more...Flood Protection: The US Should Go Dutch to Avoid Building Another Houston
Houston and US more generally should embrace a Dutch model of flood protection rather than focusing flood control efforts on post hoc clean-up.
Read more...G20 Climate Commitments and China’s One Belt One Road
A critical look at some wishful thinking about climate change and China’s One Belt One Road initiative.
Read more...After Neoliberalism, What Next?
The neoliberal order has failed and is creating more and more political and social upheaval. Some elements of a new system may be in sight.
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