Environment

By Valéry Laramée de Tannenberg | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Freya Kirk | – – Sweden has introduced a new carbon tax. From 1 April, all passengers boarding a flight departing from Sweden will be charged extra fees. EURACTIV’s partner le Journal de l’environnement reports. From 1 April, passengers boarding a flight departing from Swedish […]

Climate Change

Our burning of Fossil Fuels slowing down Atlantic Currents and Spelling TROUBLE

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TeleSur | – – The findings imply that models used to project global warming scenarios had likely underestimated the contribution of a weakening AMOC, said the teams. A system of Atlantic Ocean currents that regulates global weather is at its feeblest in 1,600 years after being weakened partly by climate change, prompting scientists to warn […]

Petroleum

Why Electric Cars are Better: Massive Keystone Pipeline Oil Leak Twice as bad as Thought

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TeleSur | – – The spill gave further ammunition to environmental groups and other U.S. opponents of another pipeline the company has proposed, the long-delayed Keystone XL. The Keystone crude oil pipeline leak in November in rural South Dakota was nearly double the original estimate, making it one of the largest U.S. inland spills since […]

Denialism

How Trump’s Gutting of Tailpipe Standards will make China Auto Leader Worldwide

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By Greg Dotson | (The Conversation) | – – The Trump administration on Monday, April 2, took steps to ease pollution and efficiency rules for new passenger cars and trucks, giving automakers a reprieve from more stringent Obama-era standards. But in the process, the move could yield global leadership in the auto sector to the […]

Climate Change

How to Survive Climate Change: Learn from Puerto Ricans & Hurricane Maria

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By Jane Palmer | ( Mosaic) | – – The rest of the world can learn from Puerto Rican communities rallying together to recover from a natural disaster fuelled by climate change. Christmas is a big deal in Puerto Rico – celebrations traditionally run from November to February – but festivities are in scant supply […]

Climate Change

Budget Bill: Even GOP Congress defies Trump on Green Energy Funding

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Emma Foehringer Merchant at Greentech Media reports that the GOP Congress defied Trump’s priorities on green energy almost across the board. She notes the following: $2.32 bn.– The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) $353 mn. — the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) $6.3 […]

Climate Change

Buried, altered, silenced: 4 ways government climate information has changed since Trump took office

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By Morgan Currie and Britt S. Paris | The Conversation | – – After Donald Trump won the presidential election, hundreds of volunteers around the U.S. came together to “rescue” federal data on climate change, thought to be at risk under the new administration. “Guerilla archivists,” including ourselves, gathered to archive federal websites and preserve […]

Green Transportation

Total cost of Owning an Electric Vehicle falling below Gasoline Dinosaurs

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Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada | (The Conversation) | – – Global interest in climate change – its effects on the environment and society more broadly – is probably at an all time high. Countries around the world, with the glaring exception of the US under President Donald Trump, are increasingly acknowledging the shift […]

Featured

Why Electric SUVs will save the American Car Companies, not China Tariffs

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Joann Muller at Forbes, in a piece on Ford Motor Company’s plans vastly to expand its electric and hybrid offerings, puts her finger on something absolutely crucial. Ford and other American car companies really, really need electric sport utility vehicles in order to get through the […]