Kansas tries to drop a house on Sustainability
You know how it goes… when sustainability is outlawed, only outlaws will be sustainable. You’d think that Kansas, of all states, would be the one that would look at climate change and say “OMG! Bigger,...
View ArticleCan India Go 100% Renewable by 2050?
This post originally appeared on Solar Power World. The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the writer and are not intended to represent the views or policies of the United...
View ArticleUS wind energy going strong but needs stable policy playing field
By Joshua S. Hill Cross-posted from our sister blog, CleanTechnica. The price of wind energy in the US is at an all time low, but officials have been quick to state the need for stable policy to...
View ArticleRenewable energy up 70% globally — US playing catch-up
By Meteor Blades A study commissioned by the Financial Times shows that the planet’s 20 largest national economies generated 8% of their electricity from renewable energy — solar, wind, and other green...
View ArticleChina is eating our lunch on renewable energy. So is India.
Last year, in its annual evaluation of the 40 most attractive national markets for investments in renewable energy, the accounting and professional services firm of Ernst & Young assessed the...
View ArticleRenewable energy jobs – 10 million worldwide (that’s a heck of a lot more...
Renewable energy jobs continue to grow – in total, the global renewable energy sector employed 9.8 million people in 2016. The growth rate over the last two years has slowed since IRENA published...
View ArticleTrumps budget slashes EPA, green energy
We’ve been waiting for some time now to see just what damage the Trump administration intends for the US clean energy and environmental policies and institutions. And this week’s budget release...
View ArticleRenewable energy is an unstoppable wave, says Financial Times
With more then 2.2 million readers a day, the Financial Times is the newspaper of record for economists, business leaders, and government policy makers worldwide. On May 18, its lead story was...
View ArticleIf Trump wanted to create jobs, he’d treat climate change like the crisis of...
In this era when every day can bring another profoundly disturbing bit of news about climate change, it’s easy to miss the good news about what’s being done to keep it from becoming worse than it could...
View ArticleTrump is pulling US out of Paris Climate Agreement – in FOUR YEARS
Yes. Donald Trump made it official this afternoon, after weeks of hints and speculation. For all the wrong reasons, he is pulling the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement, which took years to...
View ArticleAmerican exceptionalism of the worst kind – Trump dumps Paris Climate Agreement
Pr*sident Donald Trump—the man who lied about all the environmental awards he has received and vacillated between being a total numbskull on climate change and just another opportunist who bends with...
View Article… Or maybe the world is better off with Trump OUTSIDE the Paris Climate...
The conventional wisdom that the United States should remain under the Paris Agreement is wrong. A US withdrawal would be the best outcome for international climate action. By Luke Kemp With Trump set...
View ArticleBy dumping the Paris Climate Agreement, Trump hands world leadership to China
If the world can’t rely on the United States to be positively involved in the most existential crisis facing human society, when can the world rely on the USA? By Zachary Shahan One of the first...
View ArticleConservative R Street Institute: Clean energy revolution will continue w/o...
Leaving the Paris agreement is not without consequence. Our diplomatic and trade partners may seek some measure of recompense for undermining the value of the first legally binding international...
View ArticleSolar IMPROVES grid reliability (despite what Perry, Pruitt and Trump tell you)
Are wind and solar killing coal and nuclear? Yes, but not by themselves and not for the reasons most people think. Are wind and solar killing grid reliability? No, not where the grid’s technology and...
View Article200 US mayors sign on for Paris Climate Agreement without Trump
Following in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s wayward decision to withdraw the country from the Paris Climate Agreement, governors and mayors from across the country have thumbed their nose at...
View ArticleYou know those mayors defying Trump on the Paris climate agreement? Call em...
Hundreds of U.S. mayors are demonstrating one way to resist Donald Trump’s climate and energy agenda: They’ve joined an alliance pledging to keep supporting the Paris climate agreement that Trump has...
View ArticleCalifornia and China sign their own climate agreement. Sorry, Trump
California governor Jerry Brown is in China this week. He signed a climate agreement with Wan Gang, China’s minister of science and technology, committing both parties to work together to lower carbon...
View ArticleDo we really need an “All of the Above” energy strategy? (Keep it in the...
The world has a problem with overheating. And the problem is going to last at least 10,000 years per a study published in Nature. In the near term, we have to take bold steps to move the needle on...
View ArticleIn Iowa energy primary, King Coal loses out to Wind Power
Clean tech fans know Iowa as one of the epicenters of US wind energy development, but the state still leans heavily on coal for power generation. Well, not for long. Newly minted Iowa Governor Kim...
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