The UK government has announced it will invest almost £22 billion in carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects over the next 25 years. The technology works by capturing CO₂ as it is being emitted by a power plant or another polluter, then storing it underground. Mark Maslin, UCL The Conversation This sounds great in theory. […]
The operators of the nation’s first underground carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility announced that they have paused injections of carbon dioxide in the well due to likely leakage deep underground. This comes on the heels of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launching an enforcement action against the facility after another leak was discovered earlier this year at […]
On a recent visit to Rangely, a small town in northwest Colorado, my colleagues and I met with the administrators of a highly regarded community college to discuss the town’s economy. Leaving the scenic campus, we saw families driving into the mountains in off-road vehicles, a favorite activity for this outdoors-loving community. With a median […]
If we are going to survive the climate emergency, we will have to electrify – that is, transition from burning fossil fuels to collecting, storing, transmitting and using renewable energy generated by e.g. the tides, the wind, and (especially) the Sun. By Cory Doctorow Pluralistic Electrification is a big project, but it’s not an insurmountable […]
From rural Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, more than 17 million Americans live within a mile of at least one oil or gas well. Since 2014, most new oil and gas wells have been fracked. Fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, is a process in which workers inject fluids underground under high pressure. The fluids fracture coal […]
Promise Breakers, a report released Wednesday by Oil Change International, reveals that the Glasgow Statement, a joint commitment forged at the 2021 UN climate summit (COP26), is already shifting an estimated USD 5.7 billion per year out of fossil fuels and into clean energy, with the potential of a further 13.7 billion per year if all Glasgow […]
Alan Minsky, PDA Executive Director, said, “Progressive Democrats of America is calling upon President Biden to reject the Willow Oil Project in a letter to the President stating the following: “We write to you during your final week of deliberation on whether to approve the Willow Oil Project. You have always maintained that we should […]
On January 11, news broke that Sultan Al Jaber, the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), will be overseeing the upcoming round of global climate negotiations as president of COP28, hosted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The United States, the European Union, and even the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on […]
Gas stoves are a leading source of hazardous indoor air pollution, but they emit only a tiny share of the greenhouse gases that warm the climate. Why, then, have they assumed such a heated role in climate politics? Daniel Cohan, Rice University The Conversation This debate reignited on Jan. 9, 2023, when Richard Trumka Jr., […]
On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin released proposed text for the newest iteration of his so-called ‘permitting reform’ legislation, better known to the public as his dirty deal. Manchin is now pushing for a vote on the bill as an amendment to the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. By Collin Rees Oil Change International The bill contains minor […]
Despite pledging to prioritize climate change and environmental justice in its decision making, and coming on the heels of promising further emissions reduction, the Biden Administration today approved the application for the Sea Port Oil Terminal (SPOT), a new offshore oil export terminal that will increase cancer-causing air pollutants in Texas’ Brazoria and Harris counties and make […]
Russia’s war on Ukraine has cast a shadow over this year’s United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where officials from around the world are discussing the costs of climate change and how to cut emissions that remain near record highs. The war has dramatically disrupted energy markets the world over, leaving many countries […]
The Center for Biological Diversity and 289 organizations sent a legal petition today to the Maritime Administration, or MARAD, an agency in the U.S. Department of Transportation, demanding that the Biden administration halt approvals of new deepwater port infrastructure for oil export. By Lauren Parker Center for Biological Diversity Activists and community leaders delivered the petition […]
Most plastic simply cannot be recycled, a new Greenpeace USA report concludes. Circular Claims Fall Flat Again, released today, finds that U.S. households generated an estimated 51 million tons of plastic waste in 2021, only 2.4 million tons of which was recycled. By Greenpeace The report also finds that no type of plastic packaging in the […]
The UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, has pledged to suspend green levies on energy bills and look for “better ways to deliver our net zero targets”. Despite a record-breaking heatwave plus wildfires, droughts and floods worldwide, neither contender for the Conservative Party leadership felt the urge, as David Cameron once did, to hug a […]