October 4, 2013 – 3:25 pm
However, not so much about giving up their own fossil fuels or energy usage (USA Today) If energy consumption continues to grow at its current rate, that’s when the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will cause permanent climate change, according to a new U.N. report. That year stuck out to Daniel Sherrell, a […]
October 4, 2013 – 10:28 am
Kinda tells you how far they’ve gone from the core mission, eh? (via Junk Science) (Reuters) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will take one of the biggest hits of any federal agency if the government shuts down this week, operating with under 7 percent of its employees, according to guidance issued by the agency. Among […]
October 2, 2013 – 12:01 pm
They might just have to let buildings with “alternative energy” burn (Fox News) Firefighters across the nation are alarmed at the prospect of battling blazes in buildings topped with solar panels, which can create new risks of roofs collapsing, an inability to gain footing and even potential electric shock. Two recent fires involving structures decked […]
September 20, 2013 – 1:03 pm
How’d this make it through the censors at the NY Times? It is an audacious undertaking with wide and deep support in Germany: shut down the nation’s nuclear power plants, wean the country from coal and promote a wholesale shift to renewable energy sources. But the plan, backed by Chancellor Angela Merkel and opposition parties […]
September 14, 2013 – 12:37 pm
Guest Post by William Teach of Pirate’s Cove. Follow me on Twitter @WilliamTeach. There have been over 300 murders in Chicago this year, which doesn’t count all the attempted murders and other violence in the Windy City, and kids are scared to go to school as they pass through gang wars in safe passage areas, […]
September 12, 2013 – 11:16 am
What does he care if this causes you, the peasant, to suffer? (Bloomberg) Representatives of coal-intensive utilities and coal-producing regions said that President Barack Obama would effectively outlaw construction of new power plants using the fuel with pending environmental rules. The Environmental Protection Agency is revising proposed rules from last year in response to opposition […]
August 20, 2013 – 11:36 am
Biofuels, including ethanol, might be workable in the future. Heck, using sugar as fuel seems to be working well in Brazil. But, what’s being done in America, and much of the developed world, where it is mostly food being used to develop fuels, is an unmitigated disaster (article is behind the paywall. You can see […]
August 13, 2013 – 6:05 pm
Obamanomics (The Hill) ECOtality Inc., an Energy Department-backed maker of electric car charging systems, is facing a major cash crunch and could file for bankruptcy. The company, which has been awarded nearly $100 million in grant funding under the 2009 stimulus law, disclosed Monday that it’s weighing a restructuring or sale as it seeks more […]
August 11, 2013 – 8:13 am
Let’s not forget, the man in question has a “carbon footprint” estimated at 41,000 metric tons, making him mostly to be the Man With Largest Carbon Footprint In The World. The average American’s footprint is a bit over 19 metric tons. Worldwide it is 2 tons. Heck, Obama is putting out way more than two […]
August 9, 2013 – 8:37 am
So far, every environmental and global warming study has found Keystone XL to be not an issue. Here’s another one (The Hill) The Keystone XL oil sands pipeline “will not have any impact†on greenhouse gas emissions, a report released by prominent energy industry consulting group IHS CERA said Thursday. The report said that’s because […]
