France plans to end the sale of vehicles powered by gasoline and diesel by 2040, environment minister Nicolas Hulot said. Hulot made the announcement Thursday in Paris as he launched the country’s new Climate Plan to accelerate the transition to clean energy and to meet its targets under the Paris climate agreement. To ease the […]
By Elliott Negin ExxonMobil executives repeatedly claim their company supports a federal carbon tax and the Paris climate agreement. The company’s checkbook ledger, however, tells a far different story. Thursday, the company released its annual list of its “public information and policy research” grantees, which shows that it spent $1.65 million in 2016 on a […]
President Donald Trump has approved the construction of a new U.S.-Mexico pipeline that will go “right under” the controversial border wall. According to The Hill, the New Burgos Pipeline will carry up to 108,000 barrels per day of refined petroleum products per day and cross the border between McAllen, Texas and Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The […]
By Andy Rowell Never has the paradox been greater. While the most powerful politician in the world is a climate denier, scientists are now warning that we have just three years to start making radical reductions to greenhouse gases. Put it another way: that is the term of the Trump presidency. We have three and […]
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a selfie video Friday with French president Emmanuel Macron, in what some are reading as Schwarzenegger’s latest jab at President Trump on climate change. In the video, Macron promises to “make our planet great again,” a slogan he first debuted after President Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw from […]
By Andy Rowell There is a growing feeling within European capitals that a quiet, but deeply positive, revolution is happening under Emmanuel Macron in France. Macron’s opinion poll rating is high, especially boosted in how the young French president has reacted to Donald Trump on the international stage. On Friday, there was further evidence of […]
The Sierra Club released a new analysis Friday that found that transitioning all 1,400+ U.S. Conference of Mayors member-cities to 100 percent clean and renewable electricity will significantly reduce electric sector carbon pollution nationwide and help the U.S. towards meeting the goals of the Paris climate agreement. According to the Sierra Club analysis, if cities […]
By Paul Brown Natural gas will have to be phased out along with coal if the world is to be kept safe from dangerous climate change. And that seems likely to have to happen far sooner than most official forecasts, according to a new report. If countries want to reach their Paris climate agreement goals […]
Stephen Hawking repeated his warning that humanity needs to leave Earth and colonize the moon, Mars or other planets in order for our species to survive the impending doom of climate change. “We have given our planet the disastrous gift of climate change … When we we have reached similar crises there has usually been […]
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