Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/01/15/rapidly-falling-prices-renewables-set-outcompete-fossil-fuels-2020 Published on Monday, January 15, 2018 by Common Dreams “These cost declines across technologies are unprecedented and representative of the degree to which renewable energy is disrupting the global energy system.” By Andrea Germanos, staff writer (Photo: TLPOSCHARSKY/Flickr/cc) … Continued
From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): Governor Tom Wolf said that he would cut methane and harmful air pollution from natural gas operations across Pennsylvania two years ago. Despite the Governor’s promise, 1.5 million Pennsylvanians who live within a half-mile … Continued
About the Chesapeake Bay Foundation Established over 50 years ago, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is the nation’s leading conservation organization dedicated solely to restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay, our nation’s largest estuary. With over 240,000 members, an annual … Continued
January 16, 2018 10.12pm EST •Updated January 17, 2018 4.02pm EST Jason Kirk Associate Professor of Political Science and Policy Studies, Elon University World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron. AP Photo/Francois Mori The World Bank, which provides … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): The Trump administration just released an outrageous proposal to open nearly all public coastal waters, including the Arctic, to oil drilling. Ignoring the growing risks of climate disaster, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s five-year Outer … Continued
It was one year ago that 200+ residents braved the cold to gather at the Stand II in southern Lancaster County. We built a huge bonfire and burned copies of FERC’s absurd Final Environmental Impact Statement—the one that concluded the ASP … Continued
January 04, 2018 | 11:40 am World-renowned climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann explains why the bitter cold and snowy conditions gripping the US are “an example of precisely the sort of extreme winter weather we expect because of climate change.” … Continued
From the Evangelical Environmental Network (http://www.creationcare.org): Pro-life Christians (all Christians—ed.) are called to be good stewards of the bounty upon which all life depends, to protect and defend the beauty and purity of the land and water, to have clean … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2018-01-12/environment/dep-to-reduce-power-plant-water-pollution/a61011-1 January 12, 2018 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Power plant discharges into Pennsylvania waterways include arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury. (Jakec CC BY-SA 4.0 /Wikimedia Commons) HARRISBURG, Pa. – The … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): Inclusion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the tax bill was a blow to us all. And, over the last two weeks, the tax bill and its sneaky Arctic Refuge provisions have been … Continued