Tag: clean energy

If Trump wins in November, will his climate and energy team wipe out any U.S. progress on the ever-worsening global climate crisis?

“This 21st Century U.S. government’s achievements are virtually non-existent while its failures are monumental. That’s why I believe that historians of the future will conclude that it is the worst in American history.”

Some of the sunniest states in the U.S. are not taking initiative and are not creating policies in an effort to better the environment.

We must welcome energy we can live with and reject power that presents a deadly threat in so many ways.

Commitments like Oregon’s are essential to the global effort to contain and reduce carbon dioxide emissions to levels that can protect the Earth for future generations.

“Pakistan’s solar insolation is one of the highest in the world, and foreign investors are taking note.”

A 300-megawatt solar and hydropower plant, found in the Atacama Desert in Chile, will use solar power to move seawater up a tunnel to the top of a mountain for water storage and will release the water back down to generate power.

One of the biggest stories of 2015 was the sharp decline of oil prices, which fell this year to levels not seen in more than a decade.

Renewable energy and alternative vehicles get cheaper the more of them we make and use. Oil and coal get more expensive the more of them we burn. So we can be confident that clean energy wins the affordability race.

“What the scientists tell us is that we have a relatively short window of opportunity to bring about the fundamental changes that we need in our global energy system to transform our energy system."