US, Japan Reject G-7 Ocean Plastics Charter
Japan and the United States decline to endorse G-7 Ocean Plastics Charter– a voluntary effort inadequate to the scale of the problem but better than outright neglect.
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Why It Matters If Fracking Companies Are Overestimating Their ‘Proved’ Oil and Gas Reserves
Comprehensive analysis of why it matters that fracking companies are overestimating their ‘proved’ oil and gas reserves– as allowed under an SEC rule change.
Read more...A 1,000-Year Flood in Maryland Shows the Big Problem With So Much Asphalt
Why Ellicott City’s flood didn’t have to be the disaster it was.
Read more...Trump Regulators and California on Collision Course on Rolling Back Fuel Efficiency Standards
Trump regulators and California are on a collision course over efforts to roll back the previous administration’s fuel efficiency standards, due to come into effect in 2021.
Read more...Republican Mayors Push Climate Action Without Saying ‘Climate Change’
Some Republican officials are more active on the climate front than party rhetoric would have you believe.
Read more...The Carbon Bubble and the Pricing of Bank Loans
Neglecting the possibility that fossil fuel reserves can become ‘stranded’ could result in a ‘carbon bubble’ as fossil fuel firms become overvalued.
Read more...Bitcoin Energy Use Growing Much Faster than Previously Thought
Bitcoin energy use alarmists are being proven right.
Read more...Colorado River: The Water War That Will Decide the Fate of 1 in 8 Americans
Water wars loom on the horizon, arising from overuse for generations of the Colorado River, which carved the Grand Canyon and serves as the main water source for much of the American West.
Read more...How Wall Street Enabled the Fracking ‘Revolution’ That’s Losing Shale Oil Companies Billions
Fracking harms the environment and shale oil companies fail to turn a profit but that doesn’t stop Wall Street from lending them huge sums of money, driven by lust for fees.
Read more...Reader Inquiry: How’s Your Climate?
Seeking reader observations on the impact of climate change in their environs.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Our Communities Are Scaled and Built for a Climate That No Longer Exists
Why combatting climate change will require the use of force.
Read more...Trump’s Carbon Capture Tax Break: Mechanical and Biological Paths
Looking at the potential benefit of tax subsidies for carbon capture.
Read more...Global Warming’s Impact on Ocean Currents to Amplify Sea Level Rise
Real News Network interview with Levke Caesar, discussing how Atlantic ocean currents have weakened due to global warming and are closer to catastrophic collapse than any time in the last 1,600 years.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Fracking Has Brought the World to the Brink of Disaster
Fracking is one reason why our bad climate change picture is getting even worse.
Read more...World May Hit 2 Degrees of Warming in 10-15 Years Thanks to Fracking, Says Cornell Scientist
A sobering take on the impact of fracking on climate change.
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