Solar Import Tariff: Pain Without Benefit
On the not-well-thought-out solar tariff.
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Gaius Publius: Democrats Laying Their Own Bonfire
The Democrats are increasingly cocky as potential voters become more and more angry over their pro-Establishment policies.
Read more...Oil and Gas Company Sues Environmental Activist for Libel over Facebook Comments
War on dissent: oil and gas company plays legal hardball, suing environmental activist for libel for his Facebook comments.
Read more...Climate Change Mitigation Pays Off $6 for Every $1 Invested…As Funds Targeted for Cuts
Why more isn’t being done on the climate change mitigation front.
Read more...Puerto Rico: Post-Hurricane Maria Relief Effort Omnishambles Rolls On
Puerto Rico’s recovery: Grid materiel, the exodus and cheap labor, the relief loan, and oddly trivial disaster capitalism.
Read more...Court Orders Nonprofit Law Firm to Pay $52,000 to Oil and Gas Company for Defending Local Fracking Waste Ban
Courts tend to uphold federal and state laws that preempt cities and municipalities from enacting local bans on practices such as fracking.
Read more...Why Urban Farming Is Key in the Fight Against Hunger and Climate Change
How urban farming can help alleviate food stress and buffer climate pressures.
Read more...Trump’s Gift to the Climate Movement
How Trump’s climate change denialism helps activists.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Momentous Change in US Natural Gas, with Global Impact
Even China is Buying U.S. LNG
Read more...Mexico’s Standing Rock? Sempra, TransCanada Face Indigenous Pipeline Resistance South of Border
Mexico is now facing its own Standing Rock-like moment as the Yaqui Tribe challenges Sempra Energy’s Agua Prieta pipeline between Arizona and the Mexican state of Senora.
Read more...Fracking Boom Further Spurs Plastics Crisis
The usual suspects behind climate change are fuelling the plastics crisis and investing to create more waste rather than clean up the mess.
Read more...One-Third of Puerto Rico Won’t Have Christmas Tree Lights Because They Still Don’t Have Power
Lack of power in Puerto Rico, with ripple effects on the water supply, air pollution, and hospitals
Read more...Gaius Publius: New Study Evaluates Climate Models — Best Ones Also Show the Most Global Warming
A new study of the performance models shows more convincingly than ever that we are cooking our collective goose.
Read more...Judge Sides with Big Oil in Maine Pipeline Case
Judge allows oil company challenge to city ordinance to proceed, to allow pipeline company in theory to transport Canadian tar sands oil.
Read more...The EPA Tries to Turn a Blind Eye to Carbon Emissions. The Courts Can Stop It.
Senator Whitehouse explains why the courts can challenge some of the breaks the EPA has given to global warming perps.
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