Judge Throws Out Felony Charges Against Climate Defenders! BAGLEY, MN — District Court Judge Robert Tiffany acquitted defendants of all charges today in the Clearwater County case of two “Valve Turners,” Annette Klapstein and Emily Johnston, and support person Ben Joldersma. Judge Tiffany ruled that the prosecution failed to demonstrate […]
Daily Archives: October 12, 2018
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“There is no documented historic precedent” for the scale of changes required, the body found. “The world stands on the brink of failure when it comes to holding global warming to moderate levels, and nations will need to take “unprecedented” actions to cut their carbon emissions over the next decade, […]
MacArthur Foundation’s Oct. 5 Weekly Climate Report: A Washington Post headline on Wednesday nicely summed up the sobering news coming from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting this week in South Korea: “Climate scientists are struggling to find the right words for very bad news.” Negotiators from more […]
… and therefore more emissions won’t matter. Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will warm a disastrous seven degrees by the end of this century. A rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit, or about four […]
MacArthur Foundation’s Weekly Climate Review from Sept. 28, 2018: This week brought a barrage of notable climate news that was all but obscured by the media’s obsession with Donald Trump’s braggadocio at the United Nations and the alleged boozy, teenage sexploits of his U.S. Supreme Court nominee. While both spectacles […]
Anyone who has studied carbon pricing knows that the devil is in the details. Here’s a thorough analysis of the i1631 ballot initiative by CarbonWA.
MacArthur Foundation’s Weekly Climate Review from Sept. 21, 2018: Move by oil giants stands out amid flurry of climate promises The past seven days brought a flurry of promises for climate action as well as some artful dodging, but an announcement by U.S. oil giants may prove to be the […]
Why build gas peaker plants when solar or wind plus energy storage is cheaper? Today, utility storage capacity amounts to around 6 gigawatt-hours worldwide, but Wood Mackenzie predicts a more than tenfold increase, to at least 65 gigawatt-hours, by 2022. The U.S. will continue to lead this build-out, thanks to […]
Arcimoto is an electric vehicle company from Eugene, Oregon developing the fun utility vehicle, or FUV, a tandem two-seat, three-wheeled electric vehicle. The company’s first vehicle is a tandem two-seat three wheeled electric motorcycle with an estimated range of 70 miles (110 km) or 130 miles (210 km), depending on battery pack purchased […]
“How did we get to the point where the highest standard a business will hold itself to is simply the absence of evil? “And how did we get to a so-called “ethics” of business that insists that the only affirmative responsibility of a corporate executive is to maximize value for […]
For years we’ve known that the coal industry was a dead man walking in the United States. So the industry has clung to future growth in other markets to justify its place at the table. But now, even those prospects are fading. We’ve already hit peak coal generation. We’re close to […]