To tackle climate change, natural gas has got to go By David Roberts @vox.com May 30, 2019 SHARE A liquid natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal. Shutterstock Expert opinion on climate change policy has been evolving quickly. The opinion of policymakers has not always kept up. One area where this split is particularly notable is around the role of natural gas in a clean energy future. For …
The big energy companies plan to produce 21 percent more oil in 2025, but the IEA expects demand to increase only 10 percent
Houston Chronicle, May 2019 The world has already found all the oil it should ever burn Chris Tomlinson May 6, 2019 1of2Climate activists from the Extinction Rebellion group demonstrate during protests outside the Bank of England in the City of London, U.K., on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The demonstrators are demanding that the U.K. acknowledge the “crisis” posed by global warming, …
Colorado steps toward decarbonization in 2019, agenda for 2020
15 years ago, Colorado’s two top electricity providers were determined to build large coal plants and continue to invest in fossil fuel generation, adding millions of tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and oceans and standing in the way of using Colorado’s abundant wind, solar, water and other renewable resources. These corporate goals superseded citizen and ratepayer opposition, and …
Breaking: Fossil Fuels Choke Denver With Air Quality 3 Times Worse Than Beijing
Kyle Clark, a 9 News anchor, reported that 30 to 40 percent of ozone levels — a related form of pollution that is not responsible for the brown cloud — result from the state’s oil and gas industry. Traffic generates similar levels, he tweeted. By Andy Bosselman, StreetsBlog, Mar 6, 2019, link to original article Downtown Denver viewed today through the haze of …
Turn Methane into CO2 to Reduce Warming, Experts Propose
Converting methane into a less potent greenhouse gas would need to be done along with overall emissions reductions. By Chelsea Harvey, E&E News on May 21, 2019 and in Scientific American. Credit: Getty Images Most plans to tackle climate change revolve around cutting down on carbon dioxide, usually by reducing human emissions. But an unconventional new idea could actually slow the progress of global warming by …
Fossil fuel subsidies – May 2019 report
The IMF paper on “Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies” finds that the world is wasting 6.5% of global GDP — US$5.2 trillion per year — subsidising dirty energy through direct subsidies, tax breaks, or non-internalisation of externalities. Coal remains the largest recipient of these explicit or implicit subsidies, despite being the most polluting. The second paper, on “Fiscal Policies for Paris …
$3.5 billion in direct fossil fuel subsidies handed out by US govt every year, not to mention billions in indirect subsidies, like allowing fossil fuel companies to freely pollute the world’s atmosphere and oceans, endangering life on Earth as we know it, without paying a dime
$3.5 billion in direct fossil fuel subsidies handed out by US govt every year, not to mention billions in indirect subsidies, like allowing fossil fuel companies to freely pollute the world’s atmosphere and oceans, endangering life on Earth as we know it, without paying a dime Who’s Behind The War On Electric Cars? May 17th, 2019 by Steve Hanley on Clean Technica If you …
Maritime freight transport decarbonization – May 2019
This week is the 74th meeting of the marine environmental protection committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), and it represents one of the best hopes of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from a large and growing sector. Based in London, the IMO is the UN agency with responsibility for the safety and security of shipping and the environmental impact of …
Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending
These subsidies are largely invisible to the public, and don’t appear in national budgets. But according the the IMF, the world spent $4.7 trillion — or 6.3 percent of global GDP — in 2015 to subsidize fossil fuel use, a figure it estimated rose to $5.2 trillion in 2017. The world would be richer and healthier if the full costs of fossil …
Meet the Guy Who Helped Outlaw Fracking Bans In Colorado (By Banning Fracking)
BY SAM BRASCH | SAM.BRASCH@CPR.ORG APR 8, 2019 A lone pump jack in a field south of Dacono, April 2, 2019. Hart Van Denburg/CPR News The scenario that led Ken Crumb to take on the oil and gas industry probably sounds familiar. An explosion in a city north of Denver. A building destroyed. People suspicious of a connection to nearby fracking operations. Officials conducting …