Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:30:03 +0000
Why cutting fuel duty increases oil dependence and funnels benefits to the very richest. We need a tax on Russian oil.
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:30:03 +0000
Why cutting fuel duty increases oil dependence and funnels benefits to the very richest. We need a tax on Russian oil. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed fuel prices to recent highs. To appease drivers at the pump, half of EU Member States (14 of 27 — see our Fuel Duty Tracker) have reacted by […]
Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 22:00:11 +0000
This blog was co-authored with Will Bernstein, Climate Advisor to the City of Pittsburgh
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 13:40:47 +0000
The Maryland Building Energy Transition Plan highlights a shift toward efficient, electric heating and a 60–95 percent reduction in natural gas use.
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:01:36 +0000
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it will be discontinuing its online archive in July 2022. This means the public will lose access to tens of thousands of web resources. These resources convey information about critical environmental issues, and past and present agency activities, policies, and priorities. All of these resources are publicly funded […]
Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 03:35:51 +0000
Incoming Virginia Gov. Youngkin in January tasked his Special Advisor and former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler with producing an assessment of Virginia’s overwhelmingly popular climate law — the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, also known as RGGI. But a funny thing happened to Wheeler’s RGGI “report,” released late yesterday, on its way to Gov. Youngkin’s desk. This key fact […]
Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 03:33:51 +0000
Incoming Gov. Youngkin in January tasked his Special Advisor and former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler with producing an assessment of Virginia’s overwhelmingly popular climate law — the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, also known as RGGI. But a funny thing happened to Wheeler’s RGGI “report,” released late yesterday, on its way to Gov. Youngkin’s desk. This key fact didn’t make […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 02:12:40 +0000
Argonne’s interactive Electric Vehicle Charging Justice40 Map helps EV charging planners align their efforts with federal goals to serve disadvantaged communities. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory contributed critical tools and expertise to a new federal initiative aimed at helping states build electric vehicle (EV) charging stations fairly and equitably across the […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 03:11:33 +0000
Renewable electricity will do the heavy lifting to decarbonise transport, but we still need the policies to make this happen, T&E says in a submission to the UK Transport Select Committee. Decarbonising transport can only be achieved through an end to the use of all fossil fuels, which must be completed by 2050 if climate […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 19:40:00 +0000
Spot the contradiction: oil majors with record profits while lower income households struggle to pay their bills. Can Europe act to level the playing field? BP recorded a profit of $12.8bn in 2021 after oil and gas prices surged in the second half of the year. For Shell, profits amounted to $19.3bn and Total Energies, $16bn. On the other hand, […]