"Coal Dust Is Blowin’ in the Wind"
"That black stuff spilling off railcars is a threat to public health and waterways across the United States".
Source: Sierra, 09/28/2023
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Britain Approves New North Sea Oil Drilling, Pleasing Industry Not Greens
"Britain on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a major oil and gas project in the North Sea, ignoring warnings from scientists and the United Nations that countries must stop developing new fossil fuel resources if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change."
Source: AP, 09/28/2023
"How Carbon Stored Underground Could Find Its Way Back Into the Atmosphere"
"Generous federal tax credits are driving the onrush of carbon capture and storage projects being proposed in the U.S. But like a game of whack-a-mole, there’s a chance the planet-warming emissions could seep back up into the atmosphere after they are injected underground."
Source: Floodlight, 09/27/2023
"Can the U.S. Make Solar Panels? This Company Thinks So."
"First Solar kept producing them in Ohio after most of the industry moved to China. President Biden wants many more domestic manufacturers."
Source: NYTimes, 09/27/2023
"‘We Can’t Drink Oil’: How A 70-Year-Old Pipeline Imperils The Great Lakes"
"Tribes say Line 5 is a ‘ticking time bomb’ for the Great Lakes, which contain a fifth of the Earth’s surface fresh water, and risks destroying their relationship with land and water".
Source: Guardian, 09/27/2023
"‘Staggering’ Green Growth Gives Hope For 1.5C, Says Global Energy Chief"
"The prospects of the world staying within the 1.5C limit on global heating have brightened owing to the “staggering” growth of renewable energy and green investment in the past two years, the chief of the world’s energy watchdog has said."
Source: Guardian, 09/27/2023
Judge Blocks US Plan To Scale Back Gulf Lease Sale To Protect Whale Species
"A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to expand next week’s scheduled sale of of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases by millions of acres, rejecting a scaled-back plan announced last month by the Biden administration as part of an effort to protect an endangered whale species."
Source: AP, 09/26/2023
"‘False Promise’: DOE’s Carbon Removal Plans Rankle Community Advocates"
"The Biden administration has championed carbon removal projects as better neighbors than the pollution-spewing industries of the past. But the Department of Energy’s first two candidates for its $3.5 billion direct air capture program have conducted an opaque early outreach process in the disadvantaged Louisiana and Texas communities where the projects would be built."
Source: E&E News, 09/26/2023
"‘Monster Fracks’ Are Getting Far Bigger. And Far Thirstier."
"Giant new oil and gas wells that require astonishing volumes of water to fracture bedrock are threatening America’s fragile aquifers."
Source: NYTimes, 09/26/2023
Youngstown Council Unanimously Nixes ‘Dangerous’ Tire Pyrolysis Plant
"The Youngstown City Council approved a resolution on Wednesday night opposing an “advanced recycling” plant that would have used a process called pyrolysis to burn old tires to make steam for heating and cooling downtown buildings."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/25/2023
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