Climate Change Alert: Life Is About To Get Much Worse
Updated climate models indicate that temperatures and storms will be getting much worse in the next 10-20 years.
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Reducing Carbon Emissions Won’t Halt Economic Growth
The big obstacle to reducing carbon emissions isn’t economic costs, but inertia and the impact on powerfully placed special interests.
Read more...Radioactive Waste Still Leaking Five Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
The Fukushima site is still leaking radioactive water and the cleanup and remediation will take decades.
Read more...Flint’s Water Crisis: A Chronicle of Disenfranchisement, Denial, and Buck-Passing
A must-see documentary on Flint’s water crisis.
Read more...A Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline is Next to a Nuclear Power Plant. What Could Go Wrong?
Someone needs to remind the overseers of old nuclear power plants that tail risks are greater than they think.
Read more...Delhi’s Wasteful “Smart City” for Its Elites: Bloomberg’s Parasitical Model for the Future?
Be warned: “Smart city” is the new code word for pampered, resource-hogging enclaves for the elite.
Read more...The Danger Of Low Oil Prices For The Global Economy
Lambert here: I freely admit that I think of the energy markets at the super-micro level of the price for home heating oil, and along with the rest of the state of Maine, I’m convinced that the market is rigged. Much beyond that I can’t go, since I don’t drive, so I’d be very interested […]
Read more...United States On Path to Becoming Major Exporter of Natural Gas Despite Climate Impacts
By developing export terminals and permitting more pipelines to enable fracked gas exports, the U.S is poised to play a larger role in the global gas market, despite the federal government’s pledge to combat climate change.
Read more...Utilities Getting Regulatory Support for Screwing Solar Customers
Utilities, with regulatory backing, are working hard to turn homeowner investments in solar into economic white elephants.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Age of Stagnation or Something Worse?
In The Age of Stagnation, author Satyajit Das has shifted from his usual wry detachment to a sense of foreboding.
Read more...France To Build 621 Miles Of Solar Roads
Solar roads sound too “gee whiz” to work. But it would be terrific if they did.
Read more...How Many Flints? America’s Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis
Flint is just the tip of the iceberg of lead poisoning in America.
Read more...The Greenhouse 100
A ranking of the top greenhouse gas producers in the US.
Read more...Flint: Let Them Drink Pollution?
Why the crisis in Flint, Michigan is about race and class, and the American nightmare of metastasizing inequality of wealth and power.
Read more...Flooded Cities
Major cities are often located in low-lying areas that are flood-prone. Worse, after being flooded out, people and businesses tend to return even when relocating is the better choice.
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