[Source: GALLUP] Early in Joe Biden’s tenure as president, a slightly diminished 56% majority of Americans think the U.S. government is doing too little to protect the environment. This marks a five-percentage-point decline from one year ago and coincides with a nine-point increase in those saying the government is doing too much (15%). Meanwhile, an Read More…
Tag: renewable energy
Will the race for electric vehicles endanger the Earth’s most sensitive ecosystem?
[Source: EcoWatch by The Revelator] The internal combustion engine had a good run. It helped get us to where we need to go for more than a century, but its days as the centerpiece of the automotive industry are waning. As countries work to cut greenhouse gas emissions, electrification is stealing the limelight. While there’s Read More…
Fossil fuels aren’t going anywhere
[Source: OilPrice.com] “There is no scenario where hydrocarbons disappear,” the chief executive of Baker Hughes, Lorenzo Simonelli, said during his keynote speech at this year’s annual meeting in the company. Like other executives from the industry, Simonelli acknowledged and welcomed the energy transition, but he noted that a 100-percent renewable energy scenario was simply not Read More…
Covid-19 took a bite from U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2020
[Source: The New York Times] America’s greenhouse gas emissions from energy and industry plummeted more than 10 percent in 2020, reaching their lowest levels in at least three decades as the coronavirus pandemic slammed the brakes on the nation’s economy, according to an estimate published Tuesday (Preliminary US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimates for 2020 | Read More…
Debunking the green energy illusion
[Source: Dalia Maeroff] Climate change is at the center of everyone’s attention nowadays, with California’s sky burning orange. One solution is dominating the conversation of fixing our planet’s climate — green energy. Green energy means to transition away from fossil fuels and rely on cleaner ways of generating energy without releasing greenhouse gases into the Read More…
Analysis of renewable energy points policy makers to path toward more affordable and reliable carbon-free electricity
[Source: Caltech News] As more states in the U.S. push for increased reliance on variable renewable energy in the form of wind or solar power, long-term energy storage may play an important role in assuring reliability and reducing electricity costs, according to a new paper published by Caltech researchers. Graduate student Jackie Dowling, who works Read More…
COVID-19 impact on US renewable energy projects
[Source: BRACEWELL LLP] The COVID-19 pandemic is raising numerous concerns for renewable energy projects under development in the United States. First, will Congress address renewable energy industry concerns in the coming round of the COVID-19 legislative debate, or soon thereafter, by extending renewable energy tax credit programs or otherwise? Second, can renewable energy facilities under Read More…
Solar power required for all new California homes starting Jan. 1
[Source: The Mercury News] Landmark building rules will be first-in-the nation solar requirement. California already generates more electricity from solar power than any other state. But now a dramatic expansion is about to begin as new building codes take effect Jan. 1 requiring all newly constructed homes statewide to be powered by the sun. The Read More…
Retiring worn-out wind turbines is a wasteful process
[Source: Blaze Media] Wind energy has a big waste problem. Those spinning blades on the horizon aren’t as green as you may think. A story from Harvest Public Media delved into what happens when those big turbines that dot horizons all over the United States reach the end of their usefulness and have to be scrapped. Read More…