Blog Profile / Climate Progress
| URL : | http://climateprogress.org/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Issues & Causes / Climate Change | |
| Posts on Regator: | 2177 | |
| Posts / Week: | 18.9 | |
| Archived Since: | April 4, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Climate Science Deniers Aren’t The Only Ones Using The Tobacco Industry Playbook
A stunning expose by 100Reporters and Environmental Health News underscores how far some companies will go to squelch a scientific review of the impact of their products. Award-winning reporter Clare Howard, now with the investigative journalism nonprofit, “100Reporters,” has a must-read piece on the length one company went to in order to discredit critics: To [...]
New Poll: Voters Favor Protecting Public Lands Over Drilling Them
A poll released today by the Center for American Progress shows strong evidence that Americans believe energy development and land conservation are out of balance. It also demonstrates that there is a wide gap between political rhetoric by the oil and gas industry and their allies in Congress and the opinions of westerners about oil [...]
Energy Secretary Explains To GOP Member How He Knows Humans Are Warming The Planet: ‘I Know How To Count’
Yesterday, new Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz sat before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee to discuss the Department’s proposed budget and ended up explaining basic climate science to a member of the majority party. In an exchange with former committee chair Henry Waxman (D-CA) reported by E&E Daily, Moniz was blunt: “It’s indisputable that we [...]
Throw It Out And It Powers Your Home: Puerto Rico Turns To Garbage For Renewable Energy
Puerto Ricans will soon be turning their trash into renewable energy. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its final approval of an air permit for a 77 megawatt EfW plant, owned by Energy Answers International, a first for the U.S. island territory. The $650 million facility, which will be built in three years in [...]
Drought Is Causing U.S. Beef Prices To Skyrocket
Last year’s historic drought hit the U.S. agriculture industry hard, and major losses in feed crops have driven the price of beef to record highs — prices that are expected to climb if the dry weather in the Midwest and Great Plains continues. Right now, the average retail price for ground beef is $3.51 per [...]
Will A Denier Scrub Curriculum That Teaches Climate Science To Kentucky Schoolchildren?
The Kentucky State Board of Education approved new standards for science education, including the teaching of climate change and evolution, in a unanimous vote last week. But before becoming final, the standards are subject to review by the state’s Senate Education Committee, whose chairman, Sen. Mike Wilson, is on the record opposing the teaching of [...]
Déjà Vu Fire Season Off To A Roaring Start In Colorado
In Colorado, the fire season is starting to look ominously like a repeat of 2012 and a continuation of big fire years in the West. That matches models predicting climate change will usher in an era of massive, destructive wildfires. On Monday, Denver set a new record for the earliest date to ever hit 100 [...]
IEA: CO2 Rose 1.4% In 2012, Climate Catastrophe Looms, Delaying Action Until 2020 Costs World $3.5 TRILLION!
So the good news is that the International Energy Agency reports U.S. emissions dropped in 2012 “while total CO2 emissions growth in China was one of the lowest in the last decade.” China’s annual carbon pollution now exceeds our by 60%! The IEA sums up the not so good news in this slide: Yes we [...]
U.S. Offshore Wind Lease Auction Set As Grid-Connected Test Turbine Is Installed In Maine
After decades of very little progress on developing American offshore wind, things are finally happening that could see the U.S. catch up with Europe to install clean, renewable power off American shores. Last week, the Interior Department announced the first federal offshore wind lease sale for an area 9 miles off the coast of Massachusetts [...]
June 7 News: Texas Oilfield Town Slammed By Drought Runs Out Of Water
A small town in West Texas suffering drought and increased water demands from oil and gas drilling has run out of water, and the residents are “pretty P.O.’d.” [Texas Tribune] Barnhart, a small community in West Texas, has run out of water. John Nanny, an Irion County commissioner and an official with Barnhart’s water supply [...]
Tea Party Takes On Georgia Power Over Lack Of Solar Energy
The fight to bring cheaper, clean energy to Georgia is uniting some unlikely allies. Renewable energy advocates and leaders of the Atlanta Tea Party are taking on utility giant Southern Co., and its subsidiary Georgia Power, over resisting the call to expand its development of solar energy. As Debbie Dooley, co-founder of the Atlanta Tea [...]
GOP Congressman With Computer Science Degree Justifies Opposition To EPA Rules: ‘I’m A Scientist’
In one very narrow sense, Rep. Bill Johnson is a scientist, as he claimed during a recent interview while opposing environmental protections. In another, more accurate, sense, Johnson is a man with a degree in computer science who is awash in oil and gas money and denies climate science, asserting in 2011, ” I am [...]
The World’s Biggest Coal Company Is Turning To Solar Energy To Lower Its Utility Bill
The largest coal company in the world, Coal India, is aiming to cut its own utility bills by installing solar photovoltaic panels at its facilities across the country. The coal giant is seeking proposals from solar energy companies to build a modular 2 megawatt solar plant on 9 acres of its own land. This plant [...]
June 5 News: China Noncommittal On Carbon Cap Despite Previous Reports To The Contrary
China, contrary to previous reports, will not announce a plan to adopt an absolute cap on carbon emissions at the UN talks in Germany. [Bloomberg] China’s Chief Climate Negotiator Su Wei reaffirmed his nation’s commitment to lower emissions relative to economic output while dismissing reports that it will adopt an absolute cap on greenhouse gases. [...]
June 4 News: What Keystone? Enbridge Builds And Expands Existing Tar Sands Pipeline Network
Enbridge is quietly building a network of pipelines from Canada to the United States while attention is focused on TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL project. [Inside Climate News] While all eyes are on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, another Canadian company is quietly building a 5,000-mile network of new and expanded pipelines that would achieve the same [...]
Sequestration Nation: Government Funding Is Critical In Dealing With Severe Weather
Kwame Boadi is a Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress. The devastating May 20 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, illustrated just how high the stakes of reducing funding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, can be. In fact, the impact of the tornado was so great that late Friday night, NOAA [...]
June 3 News: Tar Sands Supporters Suffer Setback As British Columbia Rejects Pipeline
“Prices for tar sands crude have been dropping in the absence of a reliable export route.” The government of British Columbia issued an official submission to Canada’s pipeline review panel rejecting a proposed pipeline through the province to the Pacific. [Guardian] Efforts to expand production from the Alberta tar sands suffered a significant setback on [...]
Efforts To Repeal North Carolina’s Clean Energy Standard Not Dead Yet
State Representative Mike Hager’s mission to repeal North Carolina’s successful renewable energy standard just won’t end. Two repeal bills, HB 298 and SB 365, failed to pass either chamber by a May 16th legislative deadline, even though the Senate bill passed the Senate Finance Committee in a controversial manner: without a vote count. The two [...]
Exxon CEO: ‘What Good Is It To Save The Planet If Humanity Suffers?’
At yesterday’s meeting for ExxonMobil shareholders in Dallas, CEO Rex Tillerson told those assembled that an economy that runs on oil is here to stay, and cutting carbon emissions would do no good. He asked, “What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?” One good would be that humanity has a habitable [...]
Climatologist Myles Allen Says We’re ‘Doomed’ If We Keep Burning Carbon, Then Embraces Dubious Silver Bullet
Why carbon capture and storage isn’t “the solution” to our climate problems If you want to learn about climate science, look to climate scientists, I always say. But if you want to learn about climate policy and energy technology, well, you might try looking elsewhere. A case in point is British climate scientist, Myles Allen. He [...]