Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:00:12 +0000
If you look at Amtrak’s route map, you’ll notice that the service isn’t really geared toward serving rural areas and smaller cities. Sure, they do stop at some smaller cities along existing rail routes, but those aren’t the point as much as a place to get fuel and let people get onto connecting services. On […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 16:25:46 +0000
COVID-19 was a discontinuity that fundamentally shifted aviation passenger demand, but the forces are nuanced and geographically distinct.
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:10:22 +0000
Louisiana Clean Fuels and Clean Cities Coalition recently teamed up to bring the Clean Fuels Summit to New Orleans. This was an event that landed me in the Harrah’s Casino Hotel by the Riverwalk, where I could hear the blasts from the river cruises nearby. On the evening before the summit, LCF held an awards ceremony where Executive Director Ann Vail honored several partners and businesses that help to advance the nation’s environmental, economic, and energy security by supporting local actions to diversify transportation fuel options
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:30:08 +0000
Of the DNC Presidential candidates, Harris and Warren have robust, salable climate plans. Biden’s is worst, Yang’s is interesting and Sanders’ is unsalable. With a couple of additions, Warren’s plan will be very supportable in 2020. If Biden is the candidate, major surgery will be required
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 20:36:05 +0000
Bernie Sanders’ electrification plan is excellent but depends on potentially dangerous authoritarian populism, his transportation plan is mostly about cars for less wealthy people, his land use plan is good, but military and industry don’t get nearly enough attention. Only about half of the $16.3 trillion can be tracked to things which actually reduce climate change
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 20:15:51 +0000
While a lot of fingers are being pointed at China by people committed to both inaction and action in North America, the actual climate story in China is much different than most people realize
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2019 03:50:26 +0000
Yang’s single largest dollar expenditure, 62% of his US$4.9 trillion budget, would only impact 2% to 5% of US energy consumption. And his investments on geoengineering, fusion, and thorium nuclear generation are purely wasted expenditures