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Tag: climate change
How Clean Energy Kept California’s Lights On During A Historically Extreme Heat Wave
California’s power grid is on the forefront of two unavoidable trends: adding massive amounts of renewable energy and coping with extreme heat driven by climate change. The two-week September heat wav...
Turkey For Thanksgiving 2022 Isn’t Looking Cheap, How Inflation Works, More On Strike
Inside the fence of a Lower East Side garden, I worked the late shift at my New York City neighborhood’s community-supported agriculture share last night. I loved every minute. I weighed out potatoes ...
Toomey tells SEC chief to be ‘on notice’ that Supreme Court may overrule new climate rule
Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee took aim at Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler’s plan to implement a new rule requiring disclosure of climate change risks during a heari...
Texas Is Primed To Be Our Nation’s Direct Air Capture Hub
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR NRG – The W. A. Parish power plant on Friday Sept. 5, 2014 in rural Fort Bend … [+] County, TX. Ground was broken today on the Petra...
UN warns of ‘uncharted territories of destruction’
Boys, victims of the flood, reach out for food from a relief worker, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Nowshera, Pakistan August 30, 2022. Fayaz Aziz | Reuters The United Nations...
Elon Musk Has a Solution for the Energy Grid. And He’s Probably Right.
Text size Tesla sells more than just cars. It sells battery storage solutions to utilities around the globe. Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images Heat, climate change, renewable power, and the grid are al...
Ensuring A Safe Future For Nuclear Power
FILE – Smoke rises from cooling towers of the nuclear power plant Temelin near the town of Tyn nad … [+] Vltavou, Czech Republic, June 25, 2015. The Czech state-controlled power company CE...
King Charles III Should Become A Climate Monarch
TETBURY, ENGLAND – JUNE 05: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales poses in the meadows at Highgrove House … [+] at the launch for the Coronation Meadows Initiative on June 5, 2013 in Tetbury, En...
California’s Extreme Heat, Cooking With Lynja On Forbes Top Creators, And A Game-Changer For Fast-Food Workers
It may be back to school, but summer’s heat is far from over. Horrifying temperatures have been hitting California, particularly. In downtown Sacramento on Tuesday afternoon, a 100-year-old record was...
Crypto mining could hinder battle against climate change: White House
An array of bitcoin mining units inside a container at a Cleanspark facility in College Park, Georgia, U.S., on Friday, April 22, 2022. Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg | Getty Images The White House Offi...
How A Western Heatwave Is Setting Disturbing Records
A sign at Talini’s Nursery advises customers that it is closing early due to the heatwave in … [+] Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. The National Weather Service reported the tem...
California avoids widespread rolling blackouts as heat strains grid
A temperature sign at an El Dorado Savings Bank during a heatwave in Sacramento, California, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images California has avoided ordering rol...
Drought’s Toll On Farmers, Food At Cop27, And Why Direct-To-Consumer Is Nowhere Near Over
Drought wears on you mentally. Nebraska organic farmer Kevin Fulton told me that earlier this week, as I asked him about his 28 years in the business for my latest feature, out this morning. What he s...
Ways Hollywood Can Solve The Climate Crisis
American actor Marlon Brando gestures at a table while American actor Robert Duvall sits behind him … [+] in a still from the film, ‘The Godfather,’ directed by Francis Ford Coppola ...
In Big Win For Nuclear, California Legislators Vote To Save Diablo Canyon
Thanks to today’s passage of SB 846 by the California legislature, Diablo Canyon Power Plant will … [+] continue operating until at last 2030. Robert Bryce Sometimes facts and rationality ...
The World Won’t Get To Net Zero Emissions Without Nuclear Power
A construction worker works on the Phase II nuclear power plant at the LingAo nuclear power plant in … [+] Daya Bay, Guangdong province, China. The LingAo nuclear power plant is an excellent exa...
Stricter standards needed for carbon offsets, several House reps urge
Riverside industrial pulp mill showing smokestacks and stream releases as the facility operates on a sunny afternoon. Education Images | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Several House Democrats t...
Pakistan Devastated After ‘Monsoon On Steroids’ And Deadly Flooding
Topline Months of heavy monsoon rains have triggered widespread flooding in Pakistan, some of the worst in the country’s history, leaving large parts of the nation underwater and displacing millions a...
Donnel Baird Raises Over $100 Million For BlocPower By Discovering The Right Problem To Solve
Donnel Baird created BlocPower to solve a huge problem that’s central to the global effort to address climate change. It is such a big problem that investors have poured over $100 million in debt and ...
Mississippi governor declares emergency amid Jackson water crisis
An SUV rests in flood waters in this northeast Jackson, Miss., neighborhood, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. Rogelio V. Solis | AP Residents of Jackson, Mississippi, the state’s capital and largest city,...
Greenland ice loss will raise sea levels by nearly one foot: study
Icebergs float in the Baffin Bay near Pituffik, Greenland on July 15, 2022 as captured from the ground during a NASA mission along with University of Texas scientists to measure melting Arctic sea ice...
Christie Brinkley Trots Out Nuclear Disinformation
Not Really Emission Free The author with Ted Sanderson Nuclear power is definitely getting its day in the sun, partly from long-term nuclear power advocates (duh), but also from those worried about cl...
Nuclear Power Could Cut The World’s Carbon Emissions In Half
Atomic plant Vogtle, is a 2-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, … [+] Georgia in USA. Each unit has a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor (PWR), with a General ...
But Probably Down A Dead End
HOLLYWOOD, CA, – JANUARY 16: Actor Leslie Nielsen with his Rolls Royce and Bentley cars at his … [+] Hollywood Hills home January 16, 1992 Hollywood, California (Photo by Paul Harris/Getty...
California Approves Ban On Gas-Powered Cars By 2035
Topline The California Air Resources Board approved a highly anticipated measure Thursday that will ban the sale of new gasoline-only cars in the nation’s most populous state by 2035, marking whatR...
Japan is pivoting to more nuclear power — the IEA says it’s good news
This image, from March 2022, shows wind turbines in front of the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station in Japan. The country is now planning to use more nuclear power in the years ahead. Korekore | Istock | G...
California bans the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035
A charging port on a 2022 Lincoln Corsair Grand Touring plug-in hybrid vehicle during AutoMobility LA ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, Nov. 18, 2021. Bing Guan | Bloomber...
Inflation Reduction Act could cut climate damages by $1.9 trillion
President Joe Biden signs The Inflation Reduction Act with (left to right) Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WV; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY; House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-SC; Rep. Frank Pallo...
Flash flooding in Texas forces road closures and rescues
Brooke Conley looks for personal items to salvage at her flooded wellness studio in the Fair Park section of Dallas, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Residents are cleaning up the day after heavy rains across ...