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Energy and Sustainability

  • 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
  • '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

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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'
  • 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’
  • 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.
  • 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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