Guinea Pig Nation: How the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reducing government regulations for ‘advanced’...
“Under the direction of Congress, the NRC is developing new regulations to facilitate licensing of experimental reactors."
South Australia first to be 100% solar-powered, as solar becomes cheapest form of energy
On Oct. 11, all of its electricity was generated by solar power, the first time this feat was achieved by any major jurisdiction in the world.
Big polluters must be ‘held liable’ for destruction of climate, campaigners say at COP...
“For decades, big polluters have gone to any lengths to block, weaken, and delay policy. That time is over.”
Despite what the logging industry says, cutting down trees isn’t stopping catastrophic wildfires
Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires, but science doesn’t support that.
Injustice forever? Toxic PFAS chemicals have ‘made a mockery of our environmental regulations’
With a lack of regulations addressing toxic “forever chemicals,” students and professors at a Vermont college have taken their research skills into communities to spur action.
Bernie Proposes Nationwide Ban on Fracking
Bernie Sanders focuses on the environmental issue of fracking this week while campaigning in New York and Pennsylvania.
Exxon and other US oil companies lag in responding to ‘existential threat’ of energy...
"...there is a long way to go before they can be viewed as aligned with the Paris Agreement and the risk of stranded assets is still very real.”
The end of oil? Pandemic adds to fossil fuel glut, but COVID-19 relief money...
“The pandemic has taken essentially every weakness that already existed in the oil industry and then made each of them much, much worse..."
Two main energy and environment committees in the House hold climate change hearings
"Protecting our environment, taking climate change seriously, and putting the public interest first are not optional on this Committee, and that's what Democrats are going to do every day for the next two years."
United Airlines first passenger plane to make journey on 100 percent plant-based jet fuel
The "unprecedented flight" is a first in aviation history.