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12/9/22: "Federal data: Kansas oil spill biggest in Keystone history" AP
5/13/22: "The dangerous business of dismantling America’s aging nuclear plants" WaPo
5/13/22: "A Simple Guide to Carbon Emissions From Building Materials"
5/12/22: "Here's why gas is more expensive than ever even though oil prices are down" Business Insider
4/18/22: "Biden Administration to Resume Oil and Gas Drilling on Federal Lands" EcoWatch
12/16/21: NYT: "Green-Energy Race Draws an American Underdog to Bolivia’s Lithium"
12/11/21: "The wind farms angering renewable energy fans"
2/10/21: NYT Book Review "Electrified Rivers and Other Attempts to Save the Environment"
8/30/21: "Breaking ammonia: A new catalyst to generate hydrogen from ammonia at low temperatures by Tokyo Institute of Technology"
8/27/21:"
U.S. begins detaining solar panel imports over concerns about forced labor in China" WaPo
8/12/21: 'Biochar Study Highlights Efficacy in Global Drawdown"
8/8/21: "Can concrete, a major CO2 emitter, be made greener?" PBS Newshour
8/2/21:"Tesla's Megapack batteries in Victoria burned for three days straight"
6/6/21: "Nuclear Subsidies May Be Slowing Transition to Clean Energy, Advocates Say"
4/15/21: "More Compact and Efficient Vertical Turbines Could Be the Future for Wind Farms"
4/9/21: "We found methane-eating bacteria living in a common Australian tree. It could be a game changer for curbing greenhouse gases"
4/4/21: "A Green New Deal Is Actually More Affordable in the Long Term Than Fossil Fuels"
3/3/21: "The Shift to Renewable Energy Can Give More Power to the People" McKibben in the New Yorker
3/29/21: "Wind and solar power generated a tenth of the world's electricity in 2020"
3/16/21: "Good vibrations: bladeless turbines could bring wind power to your home"
2/3/21: "Water Protectors Hold Their Ground in Wild Rice Country" Winona Laduke
1/15/21: "Water Protectors Arrested in Minnesota After Chaining Themselves Inside Enbridge Line 3 Pipe"
1/22/21: "Unemployed Texas Oil Workers Find Jobs in Growing Solar Industry"
12/18/20: The World Has Two Energy Problems- The rich use too much of it, and the poor have too little.
11/12/20: When Will Electricity Companies Finally Quit Natural Gas?
10/14/20: "The Ultimate Home Energy Efficiency Guide"
10/1/20: No more gas-powered cars_ Why California's shift to zero-emission vehicles is huge
10/1/20: How a gas car ban could fail in California
9/2/20 Renewable Energy Is Set For Exponential Growth In The Years Ahead
9/22/20: How to make a net-zero pledge that actually means something
9/7/20: "The Dark Side of Green Energy" Al Jazeera
8/25/20: "Why renewables aren’t to blame for California’s blackouts" NatGeo
7/17/20: "Federal Energy Regulators Reject Attack on Rooftop Solar Policies"
7/2020: "Are We On The Cusp Of A Global Energy Crisis?"
7/16/20 How a New Effort to Trace Emissions, Led by Al Gore, Could Reshape Climate Talks
7/16/20: "The entire world’s carbon emissions will finally be trackable in real time"
U.S. Offshore Wind Power Blown on Course
Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap (2020)
In a First, Renewable Energy Is Poised to Eclipse Coal in U.S. 5/15/20
Why is architecture and building so different in Europe 11/20/19
4 fastest growing green jobs pay up to 90K a year
Ohio Just Passed the Worst Energy Bill of the 21st Century 7/27/19
Could Renewable Natural Gas Be the Next Big Thing in Green Energy? 7/25/19
Renewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble (Forbes 5/29/19)
The Fusion Reactor Next Door (NYT 5/13/19)
Why the Periodic Table of Elements Is More Important Than Ever 8/28/19
Renewables stall in global market: bad news
The cost of generating renewable energy has fallen
China is stopping 103 coal power projects as part of its move toward more renewable energy
Nuclear Power Will Not Save Us From Climate Change
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The Resource Curse in Appalachia
Nation's Largest Wind Farm Coming to Oklahoma
San Onofre nuke and waste
Scaling Back National Parks for the Fossil Fuel Industry
The Strategy of Maximal Extraction
Trump's tariffs on solar panels
KXL Pipeline gets go ahead from Trump
The Future Will Be Battery Powered
Rooftop Solar Dims Under Pressure from Utility Lobbyists
Solar Will Soon be Cheaper than Natural Gas.
Nuclear
3/27/22: "One More Reason to Oppose Nuclear Technology" CounterPunch
Fossil Fuels
12/3/21: "
Lawmakers demand oil and gas firms divulge methane leak data" WaPo
8/18/21: "Methane emissions from oil and gas may be even worse than previously thought" CBS News
8/13/21: "What To Know About Biden-Backed 'Blue' Hydrogen And Why It Might Be A Worse Polluter Than Coal"
8/12/21: "For Many, Hydrogen Is the Fuel of the Future. New Research Raises Doubts" NYT
7/16/21: 'Report: Global Demand for Fossil Fuel Electricity Has Peaked"
7/1/21: "Capping methane-spewing oil wells, one hole at a time" WaPo
6/24/21: "Global LNG Industry Reeling as its Image as a Climate Solution Shifts to ‘Climate Problem’"
6/22/21: "BP To Drill For Gas On The Edge Of World’s Largest Cold-Water Coral Reef"
4/5/21: "Why China is still clinging to coal"
4/6/21: "One researcher’s quest to quantify the environmental cost of abandoned oil wells"
4/4/21: "'No one explained': fracking brings pollution, not wealth, to Navajo land" Guardian
3/19/21: "Study finds renewable stocks posted vastly better returns than fossil fuels in past decade" Bloomberg
3/5/21: "Call the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Net-Zero Bluff"
2/8/21: "Judge Temporarily Halts ConocoPhillips Oil Drilling Project on Alaska's North Slope"
2/12/21: "Appalachian Fracking Boom Was a Jobs Bust, Finds New Report"
1/5/21: Last-Minute White House Decision Opens More Arctic Land to Oil Leasing
12/11/20: Kinder Morgan Pipeline Spills up to 42,000 Gallons of Gasoline Into California Drainage Canal
12/9/20: "You Should Have Listened, New York Tells Big Oil" NYT, McKibben
12/9/20: US Exported Natural Gas Could Worsen Climate Change
12/4/20: Denmark becomes first major oil-producing nation to set deadline to end extraction
11/9/20: Big Oil Splutters — How Will It Survive the Energy Transition?
10/30/20: "Peruvian Indigenous groups thwart oil drilling in their territory — for now"
10/22/20: Peak Gas Is Coming to the U.S. Sooner Than Anyone Expected
9/17/20: "Gas Companies Are Abandoning Their Wells, Leaving Them to Leak Methane Forever"
9/19/20: 'How the oil industry made us doubt climate change" BBC
9/7/20: "Managers Of $40 Trillion Make Plans To Decarbonize The World" Forbes
8/30/20: NYT "Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic."
8/26/20: The End of the Oil Age Is Upon Us
8/24/20: "Major investment firm dumps Exxon, Chevron and Rio Tinto stock"
8/24/20: "The End of Oil Is Near:
The pandemic may send the petroleum industry to the grave" Sierra Club
8/18/20: "In Alaska, Trump Doubles Down on Environmental Vandalism"
7/9/20: "How Utility Companies Use Charitable Giving To Influence Policy"
7/16/20: "The entire world’s carbon emissions will finally be trackable in real time"
4/22/20 Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space
6/21/20 Even the oil giants can now foresee the end of the gasoline age
Energy firms urged to mothball coal plants as cost of solar tumbles (6/2/20) Guardian
4/9/20: Will the Coronavirus Kill the Oil Industry?
4/8/20: Oil Companies Are Collapsing
First oil prices went negative. Now the shale oil industry is going to shut down
March 31: Trump’s Fuel Efficiency Reduction Would Be Largest Anti-Climate Rollback Ever
World’s banks have given $2.7 trillion to fossil fuels since Paris Agreement
New York’s Last Coal-Fired Power Plant Is Closing 3/20/20
Bill McKibben on the death of fossil fuels (3/10/20)
How JPMorgan Chase Became the Doomsday Bank
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Top DNC Committee Is Packed With Fossil Fuel and Bank Lobbyists
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Must End
Fossil Fuels Are to Blame for Soaring Methane Levels 2/19/20
Goldman Sachs Announces It Will Stop Financing Arctic Oil
Goldman Sachs will no longer fund drilling in Arctic refuge sacred to First Nations
With Passage of NAFTA 2 US supporting fossil fuels in Mexico 1/19/20
United States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than Education
Natural Gas Boom Fizzles as a US glut sinks prices
The Permian natural gas problem is growing LAT 12/25/19
Since Paris Agreement, companies have sunk millions into fossil fuels
Freight Rail and Climate Denial
It’s a Vast, Invisible Climate Menace. We Made It Visible NYT 11/8/19
Chevron plans write down natural gas slump
Shifting the sustainability focus from the individual to the corporation 10/21/19
Dangerous levels of warming locked in by planned jump in fossil fuels output 11/20/19
Super-Emitters’ In California Release A Third Of The State’s Methane
The 20 Firms Behind a Third of All Carbon Emissions
The Greatest Scam in History 11/10/19
Divestment Works - and one huge bank can lead the way. 10/15/19
Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns
Fossil fuel knocks the wind out of renewable energy movement in Ohio
Ohio just passed the worst energy bill of the 21st century
The dark money protecting the ‘worst energy policy in the country
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Cost Of Decarbonizing U.S. Power Grid Put At $4.5 Trillion (6/27/19, Forbes)
Engineering Catastrophe - why we should not geoengineer the planet
Renewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble
Natural Gas is not a "Middle Ground"
Judge Restores Obama drilling ban in the Arctic
The fracking industry’s flaring problem may be worse than we thought
China is stopping 103 coal power projects as part of its move toward more renewable energy
China continues to build coal plants despite resolve to stop
The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground (NYT Opinion)
3 Big myths about natural gas and climate change
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Lawsuit v EPA for fracking waste in the Gulf of Mexico
New York City Just declared war on the oil industry
Exxon knew about global warming in 1981, then paid millions for denial
8 Fossil Fuel Giants Pollute as much as the whole US
Trudeau to work with Trump on KXL tar sands
Fossil Fuels Forever (M. Klare)
CEO annual income could fund solar jobs in coal country
As Peat Bogs Burn NYT
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