Putting an economic price on greenhouse gases is proving a hard sell with the public, even as time to head off climate change shrinks. Taxing carbon to tackle climate change is one of those big ideas that have long held a kind of bipartisan sway in Washington — endorsed by […]
Daily Archives: December 11, 2018
A new CPUC proposal could set stricter rules for “de-energizing” power lines to prevent a repeat of the deadly Camp Fire. As evidence mounts that a Pacific Gas & Electric transmission line failure caused last month’s deadly Camp Fire, and many of the state’s most destructive wildfires of the past […]
Gov. Jay Inslee was joined today [Dec. 10, 2018] by Democratic legislators and climate action supporters to unveil a plan that would launch a dramatic reduction of Washington state’s greenhouse gas emissions over the next 15 years. The proposal would accelerate the innovation and efforts already underway across the economy […]
Alberta has announced an oil production cut, citing tight pipeline capacity. It’s an effort to buy time for the industry, but it doesn’t fix the underlying problems. When hundreds of activists protesting the Keystone XL pipeline were arrested at the White House in 2011, their ultimate target lay thousands of […]
The global climate summit got off to an awkward start this week in Katowice, Poland, a southern city built on mining nearby coal deposits. “There is no plan today to fully give up on coal,” Polish President Andrzej Duda said Monday in astonishing remarks at the opening ceremony of the […]
A year after Washington state denied key permits for a coal-export terminal in the port city of Longview, the Army Corps of Engineers announced it would proceed with its review—essentially ignoring the state’s decision. This dispute pits federal authorities against local and state governments. It’s also part of a larger […]
PacifiCorp revealed that 13 of its 22 coal units are more expensive than alternative options, such as clean energy, when discussing its coal fleet as part of a two-day public stakeholder meeting Monday and Tuesday. The Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary used unit-by-unit analysis to calculate a net benefit or cost for taking […]
by Naomi Klein Like so many others, I’ve been energized by the bold moral leadership coming from newly elected members of Congress like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley in the face of the spiraling climate crisis and the outrageous attacks on unarmed migrants at the border. […]
America’s Top Fears 2018 Chapman University Survey of American Fears October 16, 2018 Top 10 Fears of 2018 Below is a list of the 10 fears for which the highest percentage of Americans reported being “Afraid,” or “Very Afraid.” Top Ten Fears of 2018 % Afraid or Very Afraid 1. […]
Tired of hearing the “natural gas” greenwashing? Yes, most of that gas (methane) now derives from hydraulically fractured gas fields. Because methane has about 85 times the global warming potential as CO2, reducing upstream methane leaks is critical to fighting our climate change crisis. But besides the upstream pipeline and […]
As CNN pointed out, there is the “Friday news dump” and then there is the “Black Friday news dump.” The former aims to sweep news under the rug, while the latter aims to bury it under the food hangovers, blockbuster sales and football-watching marathons that preoccupy Americans the day after […]
The National Climate Assessment describes increasing heat, fire and flood damage. It’s a stark contrast to Trump’s energy policies and climate claims. BY BOB BERWYN, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS The U.S. government’s climate scientists issued a blunt warning on Friday, writing that global warming is a growing threat to human life, property […]
by Bill McKibben With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts. Thirty years ago, this magazine published “The End of Nature,” a long article about what we then called the […]
The lawsuit by the largest West Coast commercial fishing association seeks to hold 30 companies accountable for harming shellfish and livelihoods as the ocean warms. Crab fishing on the West Coast has become so threatened by warming oceans that a coalition of commercial fishers has now joined the climate litigation […]