"So we have a choice to make. We can remain one of the world's leading importers of foreign oil, or we can make the investments that would allow us to become the world's leading exporter of renewable energy. We can let climate change continue to go unchecked, or we can help stop it. We can let the jobs of tomorrow be created abroad, or we can create those jobs right here in America and lay the foundation for lasting prosperity."
-PRESIDENT OBAMA, MARCH 19, 2009
Energy is the primary commodity for the global economy just as sugar was for the 18th century. A modern global economy is absolutely dependent on energy. Indeed cheap energy can mean relatively cheap "everything else" as the price of manufacturing and shipping is made cheaper as a consequence. Federally funded research and development on energy technologies in the United States is generally funneled through the Department of Energy.
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Within seconds of the hand hitting the Bible, "climate" disappeared from the White House website as @TeamTrump seized control from the Obama Administration. In its place, a truthiness-laden paean to fossil fuels that simply ignores the accelerating...
by A Siegel
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on Fri Jan 20, 2017 at 11:40 AM PST
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If you were watching the White House website at the moment of the inauguration, the changes were swift, and in some cases, brutal. Within minutes of Trump’s ascension, the contents of the page on climate change were replaced with these highly...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Jan 20, 2017 at 10:48 AM PST
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On President Obama’s final day in office, here’s something I’m incredibly thankful for -- our air and water are a lot cleaner and safer than they were eight years ago, and we still have a ...
by Mary Anne Hitt
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Phipps Center for Sustainable Landscapes - greenest building in the world?
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Dutch net zero retrofitting on an industrial approach
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hat tip to Gil Friend
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by gmoke
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While Donald Trump spreads the myth that the decline of coal is due to a “war” launched by the Obama administration, the rest of the world continues to react to both increased concern over air quality and global warming, as well as the increasing...
by Mark Sumner
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on Tue Jan 17, 2017 at 12:34 PM PST
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Coming soon: Tobacco, unhealthy school lunches, added pollutants, and so much more! The Republican Congress is moving fast to undo as much of President Obama’s legacy as possible, and it’s not just Obamacare, not just the Consumer Financial Protection...
by Laura Clawson
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on Tue Jan 17, 2017 at 09:39 AM PST
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The Right doesn’t care how you feel now any more than they cared when they burned a trillion dollars in useless wars, betrayed every promise they made to their own voters, and told half the people in their own country to die and reduce the surplus...
by Next Conservatism
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A legislator in North Dakota
Wants to make sure you make your quota
Of killing or injuring those who protest
Without your risking any arrest.
For to hit the gas instead of the brake
Is a mistake any driver...
by Runyonr
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on Sun Jan 15, 2017 at 10:56 AM PST
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Today the Obama Administration in its closing days published final rules to amend and strengthen Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration requirements for ‘on-shore’ hazardous liquid pipelines in the United States.
The red lines in the...
by LakeSuperior
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on Fri Jan 13, 2017 at 05:08 PM PST
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Republican lawmakers in Wyoming are continuing their work trying to kill the people who live in Wyoming. Inside Climate News is reporting on a new measure introduced this week that would prohibit utilities from using electricity that comes from wind or...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Jan 13, 2017 at 11:16 AM PST
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Dutch national railway company NS has announced that along with the electric company Eneco, they have been able to begin running all of their trains, since the turn of the new year, using wind-generated energy. Spokesman Ton Boon spoke with The...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Jan 13, 2017 at 08:33 AM PST
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Like all Americans, I count on the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure that my family’s water is safe to drink and our air is safe to breathe. That’s why I’m horrified that Donald Trump has nominated sworn enemy of the EPA, Oklahoma...
by Mary Anne Hitt
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Three words sum up Rex Tillerson’s performance yesterday in his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State:
Unprepared Unqualified Unacceptable
Tell your Senators: #RejectRex
Since he was ...
by dturnbull
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on Fri Jan 13, 2017 at 08:00 AM PST
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Pipeline Note #1: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Army Corps of Engineers Seek Dismissal of Energy Transfer Partners Litigation on Dakota Access Pipeline
Today, the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Tribe (through their counsel, EarthJustice) and the Army...
by LakeSuperior
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on Mon Jan 09, 2017 at 07:33 PM PST
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As we await the reign of President Dumpster Fire, let's take a moment to savor our current president, who has been making the rounds writing for a series of scientific journals .
[W]riting Monday ...
by Hunter
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on Tue Jan 10, 2017 at 04:20 PM PST
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Just to demonstrate how far from its moorings the GOP has gone: in addition to its abandonment of seeking a balanced budget, in addition to its abandonment of treating Russia as an adversary, in addition to its absolute repudiation of even the pretense...
by Next Conservatism
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on Mon Jan 09, 2017 at 12:03 PM PST
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Obama Administration Army Corps ReAdopts Nationwide General Permit 12 Addressing Crude Oil Pipelines On Friday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued new, 5 year versions of its general permits (NWPs) addressing dredge/fill and water-related activities regulated under the Clean Water Act and the Rivers and Harbors Act:
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by LakeSuperior
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on Sat Jan 07, 2017 at 05:39 PM PST
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Look at the electoral map of the 2016 Presidential campaign and you’ll see the center of the USA and the South went for Donald J Trump. Overlay that with a map of USA solar, in the South and Southwest, and wind resources, through the Plains States and...
by gmoke
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on Sat Jan 07, 2017 at 12:05 PM PST
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Watching waves feels good and is very meditative. Waves predictably and continually arrive from out there in a way that physics can clearly describe, but each one is unique and ...
by OceanDiver
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on Thu Jan 19, 2017 at 07:00 AM PST
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If you know a lot about farming, energy, and technology, I have an important question for you:
The year is 2117, one hundred years in the future. A high school class is on a field trip, visiting a typical American farm, to see where their pizza...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 12:19 AM PST
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