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2024 Election: Where Do Candidates Stand on Energy and Climate?
The candidates, Republican former President Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, share the twin goals of lowering energy costs and increasing U.S. jobs in the sector, but diverge…
‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heating
Cyprus has outstripped all other EU member states in embracing hot-water solar systems, with an estimated 93.5 percent of households using them.
Helene Drowns Trump’s 2025 Plans and Highlights GOP Hypocrisy
Hurricane Helene slammed into the Florida coast Thursday night as a powerful and potentially catastrophic Category 4 storm, unleashing chaos across a large stretch of the Gulf Coast with high…
Oregon’s Largest Natural Gas Company Said It Was Going Green. It Sells as Much Fossil Fuel as Before.
Seven years ago, Oregon’s biggest natural gas company set out to convince lawmakers and residents that an abundant new source of green energy was out there.
California could cut utility bills with distributed energy. Why isn’t it?
Rooftop solar, batteries, EVs, and smart thermostats could help rein in rising grid costs — if only California could pass policies to make it happen.
Leakage at First U.S. Carbon Capture Injection Well Proves that CCS Can’t Work
“CCS is a technologically unsound and economically unviable scheme, perpetuated by the fossil fuel industry…”
No one should be surprised that South America is burning
Climate scientists have been saying this would happen for years. It will only get worse from here.
Promoters of clean-energy data centers in Virginia coal country unfazed by doubters
Former chief deputy director with the state Department of Energy: “This isn’t a pipedream. People don’t understand how long..this takes.”
What if nature had a voice in legislation? A ‘planetary parliament’ could give it one.
The Planetary Democrats, a European legal association, wants to create a global parliament that would represent the interests of the nonhuman world.
The disaster effect
There is quite a bit of research on the politics of disasters and how extreme weather shapes voter behavior. We’ve cited some of it in this newsletter.