Climate Change

"Owners Close 100-Year-Old Coal Plant, Blame Obama Rules"

"Operators of a century-old coal plant in Alabama say Obama-era environmental rules are behind their decision to close the facility, which first started churning out electricity in 1917."

Source: EnergyWire, 02/22/2019

Green New Deal Is Technologically Possible. Political Prospects Fuzzy

"President Trump derided the Green New Deal as a “high school term paper that got a low mark.” ... Yet, despite that disdain, the goals of the far-reaching plan to tackle climate change and economic inequality are within the realm of technological possibility."

Source: NY Times, 02/22/2019

"Trump Administration Quits Fuel Efficiency Talks With California"

"The Trump administration has broken off talks with the California Air Resources Board over vehicle fuel-efficiency standards and is on track to roll back standards set by President Barack Obama, the White House said in a statement Thursday."

Source: Washington Post, 02/22/2019

How Wehrum’s Law Firm Profited From The Fight To Roll Back Air Rules

"The nation’s biggest coal-burning power companies paid a top lobbying firm millions of dollars to fight a wide range of Obama-era environmental rules, documents obtained by POLITICO reveal — shortly before one of the firm’s partners became President Donald Trump’s top air pollution regulator."

Source: Politico, 02/21/2019

Renewables: Shell Is Buying Clean-Tech Companies. What's Going On?

"Royal Dutch Shell PLC, one of the world's largest oil companies, gave fresh signals last week that it intends to be a purveyor of low-carbon electricity. It bought a battery company that will compete with Tesla Inc. and struck a partnership with Google to test an exotic wind generator."

Source: EnergyWire, 02/20/2019

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