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September 21 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
20 Sep 2021 at 10:15pm
Headline News: “BP Gambles Big On Fast Transition From Oil To Renewables” ? Oil major BP agreed to sell a third of its majority stake in a very profitable project earlier this year. The deal exemplifies a larger strategy to liquidate the company’s fossil-fuel assets to raise cash for investments in renewable-energy projects that BP [...]
September 20 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
20 Sep 2021 at 12:14am
Headline News: “Burundi Floods: Lake Tanganyika’s Water Levels Rise” ? Natural disasters have forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes in Burundi in recent years, according to Save the Children. Most of them lived on the shores of Lake Tanganyika where water levels had risen because of heavy storms, causing floods and landslides. [...]
Just In! (from NY-GEO
by Michelle Harrison
19 Sep 2021 at 11:37pm
Below are G.E.T.?s top picks from NY-GEO?s weekly ?Just-In? Newsletter. Just In! features three fresh news item summaries on the NY-GEO home page every Monday. NY-GEO members get the full newsletter, which includes an advanced look at the website articles, plus event listings and job openings and several bonus article summaries with links, usually [...]
September 19 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
18 Sep 2021 at 9:46pm
Headline News: “Blue Food Revolution Can Help Solve Climate Change, Malnutrition And Economic Crisis: Study” ? Research shows how aquatic food sectors can play a vital role in providing healthy diets and a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient food system across the globe. The proceedings of the study were published in the journal Nature. [Republic [...]
September 18 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
17 Sep 2021 at 11:45pm
Headline News: “US Offshore Wind Industry Has Electrifying Future” ? The Offshore Wind Market Report: 2021 Edition, written by a team of researchers at the DOE and NREL, says the US offshore wind industry made great progress in 2020 and early 2021. The offshore wind pipeline grew 24%, with 35,324 MW now in various stages [...]
Why did Ida cause so much less damage than Katrina? Because government did it...
by George Harvey
17 Sep 2021 at 4:12am
Carl Pope “A version of this article appeared in Salon“ The most significant images from Hurricane Ida’s devastating landfall on the Gulf Coast are the ones we are not seeing: no refugees huddled in the Superdome, no shots of block after block of New Orleans under water, no miles of overtopped and crumbling [...]
Climate Change Is Making the U.S. Poorer Than It Realizes
by George Harvey
17 Sep 2021 at 3:42am
Carl Pope “A version of this article appeared in Bloomberg? The trillion-dollar spending package that the Senate has passed along to the House is being described as a once-in-a-generation fix for America?s deteriorating infrastructure. It should be viewed as only the first in a long series of such big investments, because [...]
September 17 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
17 Sep 2021 at 12:38am
Headline News: “California Fires: General Sherman And Other Sequoias Given Blankets” ? Firefighters are wrapping fire-resistant blankets around ancient trees as blazes tear through California’s world-famous Sequoia National Park. Officials fear the fire could reach the Giant Forest, a grove of some of the world’s biggest trees, within hours. [BBC] Trees in Sequoia [...]
Our calls are making a difference!
by Michelle Harrison
16 Sep 2021 at 4:23pm
THANK YOU to those who helped make the Senate campaign for climate legislation so successful: over 50,000 contacts in 3 weeks! News broke a week ago in Bloomberg, The Hill, and NBC that the Senate Finance Committee is considering carbon pricing as part of the reconciliation bill. The Senate heard us when we asked them [...]
Climate Action in Vermont: discussions, meetings and webinars: Sept 19-21, 2021
by Michelle Harrison
16 Sep 2021 at 3:38pm
With the superstorms, mass flooding, and wildfires of the last couple of months, it should be hard to find someone who is still a climate change denier; nevertheless, there still is hesitancy from some Vermont government leaders to adequately address climate change. At this moment, Vermont?s Climate Council is in the process of developing [...]
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