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Tag: climate change
Powell reiterates Fed is not going to become a ‘climate policymaker’
Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Jerome H. Powell participates in a panel during a Central Bank Symposium at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, January 10, 2023. Claudi...
The Earth’s ozone layer is slowly recovering, UN report finds
In this NASA false-color image, the blue and purple shows the hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer over Antarctica on Oct. 5, 2022. Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeabl...
Biden declares emergency in California as more winter storms advance
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House January 5, 2023 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Monday declared an...
Net Zero Asset Management And The Fiduciary Duty Dilemma
Beyond the political theatre surrounding the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, the investment … [+] industry is grappling with genuinely tough questions around fiduciary duty. (Photo by Johann...
A Manifesto for Disrupting Global Food Politics
When I started thinking about a manifesto for Disrupting Global Food Politics, I got really excited. For those of you who don’t know me or Food Tank, I am usually on stage as a moderator or inte...
Biden proposes tougher limits on deadly soot pollution
Seen from the window of an Amtrak train, smoke billows up from power plants alongside the tracks in Northern Virginia. Andrew Lichtenstein | Corbis Historical | Getty Images The U.S. Environmental Pro...
Energy Terms To Retire In 2023
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 10: Activists gather outside the Army Corps of Engineers Office to protest … [+] against the Dakota Access Pipeline March 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. . (Photo by Ale...
What’s in the historic Inflation Reduction Act
U.S. President Joe Biden holds out his pen to U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) look on after Biden signe...
EPA issues clean water rule that repeals Trump administration changes
Saltwater wetland, Waquoit Bay Estuarine Research Reserve, Mass. Photo: Ariana Sutton-Grier, CC BY-ND The Biden administration on Friday issued a rule that defines which types of waterways in the U.S...
Tesla’s Electric Monster Truck Complicates Elon Musk’s Climate Commitment
Frederic-J-Brown/AFP/Getty Images The world’s top EV seller hasn’t followed through on a 16-year-old goal of making them widely affordable and the Cybertruck, its next model, will be Tesla’s most re...
Tattooed Chef May Start Selling – What?And What’s Next For Alt-Protein In 2023
I‘m ending the year with an excerpt from my book, Raw Deal, all about the investor frenzy that’s been driving the plant-based boom, as well as a scoop. Tattooed Chef, a brand that went pub...
New top House Republican on markets isn’t as anti-ESG as some GOP want
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and Chairman of the House Financial Service Committee Maxine Waters (D-CA) listen as David Marcus, CEO of Facebook’s Calibra, testifies on “Examining Facebook’s...
Biden unveils stricter emissions rules for heavy-duty trucks
EPA Administrator Michael Regan gives remarks at an event on new national clean air standards for heavy-duty trucks near the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters on December 20, 2022 in W...
California And China’s Secret Weapon On Transportation Electrification
Car market heavyweights China and California are leading the world’s transition to electric vehicles (EVs), and their ambition will have an outsized impact on transportation electrification due to the...
We Need Growth, Not A Recession
Generations Y and Z, your time has come to step up to the plate and take responsibility for the biggest growth opportunity in human history. Unfortunately, it starts with facing global challenges that...
Why Hot Summers Could Ruin Your Winter Road Trips
A Gulf Power Par car battery getty In 2022, the United States experienced its third hottest summer on record according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Enduring heat is a...
House Oversight Committee Puts Political Agenda Above Energy Security
FILE – House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Environment Chair Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) led last … [+] week’s hearing on the oil industry and climate change. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Mar...
Arctic getting warmer, stormier from climate change: scientists
Martin Leonhard of the East Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP) operates snow blower putting a new snow floor for the winter-storage weather port tent at EastGRIP camp on August 9, 2022. EastGRIP is...
Fusion ‘101’ – Why It Matters For Climate Change And Weather Balloons?
WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 13: Guests await the beginning of a news conference with U.S. Energy … [+] Secretary Jennifer Granholm at the Department of Energy headquarters to announce a brea...
Can The Quest For Clean Energy Finally Help Tackle The Climate Crisis?
Topline Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have managed to get more energy out of a nuclear fusion reaction than they put in to trigger it, the U.S. Department of E...
ExxonMobil Strives To Please Everyone In New Strategic Plan
Indianapolis – Circa October 2021: Exxon Retail Gas station. getty ExxonMobilXOM announced Thursday that it will be raising its investments in pretty much all areas of its business, perhaps most...
California offshore wind auction surpasses $757 million in bids
Offshore wind farm. davee hughes uk | Moment | Getty Images The Biden administration on Wednesday announced more than $757 million in winning bids for its auction of offshore wind development rights i...
COP27 Is Over, But Egypt’s Climate Struggles Are Just Beginning
A sunset over one of the three pyramids of Dashur in Egypt. (Photo by Barry Iverson/Getty Images) Getty Images Last month, the COP27 conference, which brings together leaders from across the world to ...
Renewables to be main source of electricity generation by 2025: IEA
Wind turbines in the Netherlands. A report from the International Energy Agency “expects renewables to become the primary energy source for electricity generation globally in the next three year...
Investors Need To Take Vulnerable Infrastructure Seriously
CARTHAGE, USA – DECEMBER 05: A view of the substation while work is in progress as tens of thousands … [+] are without power on Moore County after an attack at two substations by Duke Elec...
Los Angeles bans oil and gas drilling within city limits
An oil pumpjack operates in the Inglewood Oil Field on January 28, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The Los Angeles City Council has voted to ban new oil and gas drilling and...
Rabbits Could Be The Next Climate Change Casualty
Rabbits in a cage. getty Climate change is already having detrimental effects on ecology and wildlife around the world, and these problems are likely to get worse in the years ahead. But there remains...
‘I Don’t Think Energy Policy Matters Much Over The Long Run’
Jesse Ausubel is one of America’s top thinkers on science and energy. In my 2007 interview with him, … [+] reprinted here, he said, “I do not think energy policy matters much over th...
Why California’s $46 Billion Wine Industry Is Better Prepared For Climate Change Than Some Of Its Competitors?
Sunset in the vineyards of Sonoma County, CA getty Climate change poses a significant threat for all of agriculture, but it has particularly disruptive potential for the wine industry. This is because...