JR: It’s remarkable how warm it was globally in April considering that we were only just coming out of a double dip La Niña. If we don’t triple dip, we’ll set more temperature records soon. Indeed, NOAA models predict a good chance of an El Niño forming in the late summer, which would make it quite [...]
by Adam James Ever hear the one about the Icelandic geothermal systems engineer and the Kenyan project developer who walk into a bar? As interesting this meeting might be, it’s unlikely to happen anywhere but in a bad renewable energy joke. Or at a geothermal conference. Enter the Clean Energy Solutions Center, a new website [...]
A cyber-penny for your thoughts. Related Post: Cartoonist Tom Toles slams GOP denial: ?They have turned their faces away from climate change in a way that is simply and utterly unforgivable.?
This may come as a big surprise: The U.S. commercial construction sector is facing a shortage of skilled workers. After a period of steep decline in commercial construction stemming from the 2008 financial crisis — forcing mass layoffs throughout the industry — that seems like an absurd notion. But activity is picking back up. By [...]
by Ruy Teixeira Given today?s economic problems, you?d think the public would be in a surly mood about environmental protection, seeing it as a secondary and perhaps conflicting priority to jobs and economic growth. That?s certainly what conservatives are hoping as they continue to push their environment-wrecking agenda. Turns out, though, the public didn?t get [...]
by Jackie Weidman and Daniel J. Weiss Last year, the House Republican majority cast 191 votes to weaken safeguards for our air, land, water, and climate. Their efforts to shred these protections continued yesterday when the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed two bills that would block protections from air pollution while allowing more oil [...]
by Elaine Gallagher, via Rocky Mountain Institute Where does your energy come from? Although I live in Colorado now, I grew up in East Tennessee, where many people still assume their power is fairly clean, dominated by 90-year-old hydroelectric plants. In truth, more than 50 percent of my family?s electricity was generated from coal, and [...]
Research via the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization Devastating extreme rain events are part of a growing trend in the Midwest, according to a new report looking at 50 years of storm data. Over the last five decades, the types of deluges that washed out towns in Iowa, forced the Army Corps of Engineers to intentionally [...]
A round-up of the top climate and energy news. Please post other links below. Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s first ban on a hotly debated natural gas drilling technique that involves blasting chemical-laced water deep into the ground. [Associated Press] Shumlin said the increased amounts of natural gas obtainable [...]
In a long-awaited decision, the U.S. Commerce Department has issued a preliminary decision to apply tariffs to Chinese-made solar modules being imported into the U.S. The tariffs range from 31 percent to 250 percent. The preliminary tariffs were issued after a lengthy investigation by the Commerce Department into whether Chinese companies are “dumping” solar panels [...]
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