Thursday and Friday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold the final in its series hearings on its proposed rule to clean up carbon pollution from coal fired power plants. There will be a lot of theater, and a lot of opposition as well as support. Some of the opposition comes from workers from […]
When was the last time you heard the following story on national news: today, a truck transporting solar panels overturned on a highway spilling them into a river? I’m pretty sure the answer is never. That is because, at most, it would be a local news story for causing a traffic jam. The conclusion of […]
In this world where we seem surrounded by news of gloom and doom, we don’t often hear stories of positive change. But here is one: a story of a village that has unshackled itself from darkness, after 30 years of having its energy needs neglected by governments. Today, Dharnai is blooming with hope and ambition. […]
Is President Obama’s “all of the above” energy policy a success? Or a climate failure? A report issued recently by Bank of America declared the U.S. has now surpassed Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer. The daily output average for the first quarter of 2104 exceeded 11 million barrels, a significant increase from the previous quarters’ […]
In remembrance of the one-year anniversary of the Lac-Mégantic oil train tragedy that killed 47 people, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) raised a banner from cranes today calling out unfair labor practices and protesting unsafe oil at the Port of Vancouver in Washington. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union raised a banner from cranes […]
Demand for palm oil is growing—and fast. At the moment, most of it ends up in hundreds of food products—from margarine and chocolate to cream cheese and oven chips—although it’s also used in cosmetics and increasingly, for use in biodiesel. But the cost to the environment and the global climate is devastating—to feed this demand, tropical […]
American scientists have just confirmed that parts of Australia are being slowly parched because of greenhouse gas emissions, which means that the long-term decline in rainfall over south and south-west Australia is a consequence of fossil fuel burning and depletion of the ozone layer by human activity. Southern Australia has been experiencing declining rainfall since […]
Is dilution really the solution to pollution—especially when it’s nuclear waste that can stay radioactive for 100,000 years? A four-member expert group told a federal joint review panel it is. The panel is examining an Ontario Power Generation proposal to bury low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste from the Darlington, Pickering and Bruce nuclear plants in […]
Long-term employment is hard to find these days, but one career that can be guaranteed to last a lifetime is dealing with nuclear waste. Dry cask storage of high-level radioactive spent fuel rods. Photo credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission The problem and how to solve it is becoming critical. Dozens of nuclear power stations in the […]
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