"The Town That Built Back Green"
"After a tornado demolished Greensburg, Kan., it rebuilt without carbon emissions. Can its lessons help communities and economies rebound from fires, hurricanes and covid-19?"
Source: Washington Post, 10/28/2020
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Struggling Oil Companies Are Still Giving Plenty to Republicans
"Even as Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats have built a commanding lead in the money race ahead of the November election, the nation's oil and gas industry has continued to direct its formidable financial clout to support President Donald Trump and Republicans."
Source: InsideClimate News, 10/28/2020
"South Korea's Moon Targets Carbon Neutrality By 2050"
"President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, one of the world’s most fossil-fuel reliant economies, said on Wednesday the country will go carbon neutral by 2050."
Source: Reuters, 10/28/2020
"Trump Administration Buries Dozens Of Clean Energy Studies"
"It was a scorching August day at the Hoover Dam as three Trump administration officials gathered for a little celebration honoring pollution-free hydroelectricity."
Source: Investigate West, 10/28/2020
"Japan’s New Leader Sets Ambitious Goal of Carbon Neutrality by 2050"
"Japan will be carbon neutral by 2050, its prime minister said on Monday, making an ambitious pledge to sharply accelerate the country’s global warming targets, even as it plans to build more than a dozen new coal-burning power plants in the coming years."
Source: NYTimes, 10/27/2020
Revealed: The Full Extent Of Trump's Assault On US Wilderness
"Under Donald Trump, the government has auctioned off millions of acres of public lands to the fossil fuel industry, the Guardian can reveal, in the most comprehensive accounting to date of how much public land the administration has handed over to oil and gas drillers over the past four years."
Source: Guardian, 10/27/2020
Amy Coney Barrett's Addition To High Court May Undermine Climate Fight
"Barrett and five other conservative justices will wield considerable influence on climate change policy"
"The supreme court is shifting right, at a pivotal moment when it could have the last word on how much the US contributes to battling the climate crisis.
Amy Coney Barrett’s addition to the court could leave an indelible mark on how fiercely the US, and perhaps the rest of the world, can fight rising temperatures, even as scientists warn society has just years to take serious action.
Source: Guardian, 10/27/2020
"Peak Gas Is Coming to the U.S. Sooner Than Anyone Expected"
"One of the largest utilities in the U.S. put $8 billion into a bet that natural gas would dominate American electricity much like coal had before. “We really consider this to be a growth play,” Tom Fanning, chief executive officer of Southern Co., said in an interview just five years ago ... . Gas looked to be on the verge of generational dominance at the time."
Source: Bloomberg, 10/27/2020
"Coal Magnate Robert Murray Dead At 80, Days After Retiring"
"Coal magnate Robert Murray died at his home in Ohio less than a week after announcing his retirement as board chairman of a major U.S. coal operator."
Source: AP, 10/26/2020
"Judge: Michigan Agency Can Evaluate Great Lakes Tunnel Plan"
"The Michigan Public Service Commission has some authority over Enbridge’s plans to build an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the channel that connects two of the Great Lakes, a state administrative law judge ruled Friday."
Source: AP, 10/26/2020
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