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Texas Needs to Lead the Nation Away From Coal
This week’s post was co-written by Jennifer Powis, Sierra Club Senior Regional Representative in Texas. Texas has the worst air quality in the country and it will take a concrete vision to fix it. Unfortunately, state officials keep permitting coal plants instead of take real steps to clean the air. This week the Texas Commission […]
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Fertilizer prices putting manure in the limelight
I never thought I'd see the day when shit -- the bodily kind -- would make headlines the way it is right now. But with phosphorous and potash prices rising, farmers are starting to get a lot more interested in the older sources for fertilizer.
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Perverse policy makes distributed renewables more expensive
I’ve talked previously about the perversity of using tax credits to incentivize renewable energy production, increasing transaction costs and reducing participation in renewable energy development. But there are other perversities in U.S. state and utility renewable energy policies, especially with upfront rebates and net metering.
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breaking the news
The watchdog organization Media Matters has uncovered disturbing new internal emails from the Washington bureau of Fox News. The emails suggest Fox News’ slanted coverage of climate science isn’t the result of a subtle bias, but of a deliberate directive from Fox News management to falsely represent science: In the midst of global climate change […]
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Spirit of working together rules the day in Cancun climate talks: Let's hope it continues
The international climate agreement reached in Cancun, Mexico established a foundation from which to build greater international action on global warming. But a key sub-story is also the spirit that countries brought to Cancun. Countries came to Cancun, with a desire to work together and find common ground on the greatest challenge that faces humanity […]
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Cancun agreements: A foundation from which to build greater international action on global warming
The Cancun Agreements are a detailed set of visionary yet pragmatic principles that make important strides to begin implementing the agreement reached in Copenhagen last year. The countries gathered in Cancun made progress on emissions reductions, greater transparency, forest preservation, and the creation of the green fund to help mobilize much needed investments throughout the world.
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States and cities are already preparing for climate change
Many states aren’t waiting for the federal government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — they’re taking matters into their own hands. And according to the speakers at a COP16 side event I attended on Wednesday, the same is true for climate-change adaptation efforts. The event — “Moving Forward with Climate Change Adaptation in the United […]
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How the West is winning against coal
The past month across the western U.S. has been filled with victories against coal.
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Support Clean Development to Save Ourselves
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed is no stranger to using blunt tactics and messages when it comes to climate change. Last fall, he held a cabinet meeting underwater to drive home the threat rising sea levels pose to his low-lying island nation. A team of scientists in 2008 predicted average sea levels would rise between 2’5” […]
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China plans to continue expanding renewable energy production
China has firmly established itself as a key player in the clean energy sector. The country is significantly ramping up its renewable energy capacity, increasing energy efficiency, investing in research and development, and shutting down some of its least efficient coal plants. These encouraging trends are likely to continue or accelerate in the years to come.