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Quantifying the Damage Trump Is Doing to the Environment
Frequent commenter Glenn Doty writes: ….. Even under the best possible outlook we couldn’t have fully decarbonized for a half a century. Trump may have delayed us as much as six years, but likely no more than that.
Considerable Yet Finite: Gauging the Damage Trump’s Done to the World
Speaking about climate change mitigation and other efforts to achieve some level of environmental responsibility, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes, “I would guess that the election of Trump set the world back ~6 years, assuming we get rid of …
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Federal Vs. State Government Re: the Environment: Resolving the Inconsistency
Now here’s a little piece of raw curiosity for you. When it comes to fuel standards for autos, the Trump administration wants the states to subjugate their authority to the federal government; in fact, it’s suing to force the state …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Subsidizing Coal
Question: Of the five top regulators at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), three Republicans and two Democrats, how many agree that the Trump administration’s plan to subsidize coal and nuclear is necessary to provide grid reliability, according to recent testimony …
Saying Adios to Environmental Protection
Last Wednesday we said goodbye to the law that was enacted to protect the oceans after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster. Like essentially every other piece of environmental legislation that came from the Obama era, under the Trump administration, it’s …
Advent of the Trump Administration Changes Environmentalists’ Focus
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo asks: I’ve noticed (as have others) your change in attitude in the last 18 months. Prior to the 2016 election you seemed very focused on clean energy technology and genuinely interested in promoting debate, discussion and different viewpoints …
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Environmental Protection Agency: Replacing Bad with Worse
Dorothy: I thought you said she was dead. Glinda (aka Good Witch of the North): That was her sister, the Witch of the East. This is the Witch of the West, and she’s worse than the other one.
From Guest Blogger Delicia Warren: What Businesses Can Do to Be More Environmentally Friendly
We all have a part to play in order to save our planet. Our unsustainable practices have changed the face of the earth, and continuing these unsustainable and wasteful ways of living and conducting business must stop. All businesses need …
Environmentalism: Taking It Back To Basics
There are about 8,000 blog posts here and about 19,000 comments on them, some of which get pretty far out into the weeds. Accordingly, now and then it may be a good idea to discuss the simplest, most basic concepts …
