Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:25:14 +0000
Global heating is leading to an increase in natural disasters, which can cause existential anxiety for many people.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:05:46 +0000
Let’s just start this off by saying that Donald Trump doesn’t have a lot of deep longstanding beliefs on topics that don’t directly concern him. And he’s one of the most transactional politicians I’ve ever seen, in a world of course where politicians are exceptionally transactional. We assume many things … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 04:50:55 +0000
The term “lame duck” describes weakness. A lame duck can’t keep up with the rest of its flock, and thus can more easily fall to predators. A politician facing the end of their last term ends up in a similar position, with little to no influence because everyone knows they’ll … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 04:50:47 +0000
At a recent meeting of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), motorhome manufacturers got some bad news: they would not be getting an exemption from the Advanced Clean Trucks rule. RV companies thought that they’d both have time to adjust and the ability to use emissions credits to keep building … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 02:42:52 +0000
I am old enough to remember a day when talking politics with people who didn’t agree with you did not mean the end of a friendship quite as often as it does now. I have a lot of theories on how things got this way, but as someone who works … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 02:26:26 +0000
And what would that mean? On the most recent Tesla quarterly conference call, Elon Musk brought up the possibility of creating US policy on self-driving cars. “There should be a federal approval process for autonomous vehicles.” This would theoretically be through the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) issued by … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 23:30:13 +0000
What’s done is done, and we can’t change the past, so we’ll just move on to the question of the day. What now? Perhaps a story first. In 2004, Adam Werbach, the former Sierra Club president, went all in on defeating a Texas oilman US president who had started an … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:46:29 +0000
I recall when the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was passed. Immediately, that day, we started getting announcements of EV battery factories and battery-related factories. In coming days, weeks, and months, we also got news of solar panel factories coming to town, battery mineral refineries, and numerous other production facilities. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:26:38 +0000
For the past eight years, the United States has been missing in action in climate leadership globally. Biden’s climate policy experiments, aimed as much at attempting to deal with the root causes of working class and middle class grievance as at useful emissions reductions, will persist in some diminished form. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:24:46 +0000
The AI craze is threatening to overwhelm utility companies who don’t have enough electricity to power new data centers.
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