Let’s talk about the elephant (fart) in the room: methane. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, even though it doesn’t stick around in the atmosphere as long as carbon dioxide (methane gets reabsorbed after about 12 years compared to the centuries it takes...
Just The Good Stuff 1. The UK Had It’s First Coal Free Week Since the 1880s And it’s about to become the new norm. The UK plans to phase out all coal power plants by 2025 with plans to go nearly emission-free by 2050. “We lead the world when it comes to tackling...
Because we could all use a little more good news 1. Money Talks: “Investors who continue to finance new coal projects need to be asking themselves an important question; which is going to end up being burnt first – their coal, or their money?” Companies...
On August 21, the Trump Administration announced the long-awaited replacement to the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. In October 2017, then-Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Scott Pruitt, announced he would repeal the Plan. For months, we awaited...
This article is reprinted here with permission from Allen Best, publisher of Mountain Town News, a e-magazine that provides in-depth analysis of the economic, environmental and social trends in the resort-based mountain valleys of the west. GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. –...
There’s no use in sugar coating it, or even slapping three feet of champagne powder on it; 2017 was a doozy for working toward a cooler planet. A new president who deems climate change a ‘hoax’ moved into the White House. That much you already knew. While Trump’s...
