Tag: clean energy
Indonesian ban on clearing new swaths of forest to be made...
A temporary moratorium that prohibits the issuance of new permits to clear primary and peat forests is set to be made permanent...
Fake news about energy, clean and dirty
I used to listen to Freakonomics, an interesting podcast, until it called nuclear energy clean and nonpolluting. I haven’t listened to any...
Illinois introduces Clean Energy Jobs Act – could make the state...
“We need the benefits of clean energy to reach all 102 counties in Illinois as we put Illinois on a path to 100% clean energy by 2050.”
Budweiser’s commitment to go green is this year’s Super Bowl message
"Those who wait for the best commercials all year expect Budweiser to show up big, and we felt there was no better way to show up this year than to talk about our commitment to Renewable Electricity."
Ireland to become world’s first country to divest from fossil fuels
"While we are a small nation, we have a huge impact on the most vulnerable citizens in the world."
Millions of unwitting Americans paying $1 billion more for dirty coal...
"Customers are being ripped off while cleaner and cheaper sources of energy are being crowded out because utilities are forcing customers to subsidize coal plants."
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 30
Vietnam demands compensation from Monsanto for victims of Agent Orange, California on brink of mandating 100 percent clean energy by 2045, Sanders vs. Amazon intensifies, and more.
UK goes 55 hours without coal power, breaking record
In January, the UK government announced plans to phase out coal generation by 2025.
Scotland’s record-breaking wind output enough to power 5 Million homes
"It's great to see renewables continuing to power Scotland, adding to the year on year evidence that greater investment in both renewables and storage is the way forward."
100 cities across the world run off renewable energy new data...
"Cities are key to a low-carbon future ... And pioneers across the world are already demonstrating that the transition is possible."
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Chevron responsible for spilling nearly 800,000 gallons of oil and water into California canyon
The seepage began in May and has been intermittently leaking until last Tuesday.
The taint on Trump
What has our country become? A country that accepts rapists as their leaders?
Here’s Elizabeth Warren’s plan to close the wage gap for women of color
"It’s time to build an America that recognizes the role that women of color play in their families and in the economy."
Americans are dying because they can’t afford their insulin
“My son and Jesy, they were murdered. They were killed by big Pharma. The cause of death should actually be on their death certificates, corporate greed.”
10 ways Andrew Wheeler has decimated EPA protections in just one year
Trump’s EPA administrator should change the name of his agency to “Every Polluter’s Ally.”