Georgia Republicans Think Rivian Plant Will Destroy The Local Ecosystem

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 17:22:28 +0000

Georgia Republicans think that the new Rivian electric truck factory will destroy local ecosystems and harm the community. It may seem strange that Republicans would suddenly care about the environment, a topic that they’ve dismissed before, but in actuality, they don’t. They are just pretending to for the sake of politics. The New York Times […]

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US Lawmakers Opposing Environmental Protections Get Clear Rewards From Oil & Gas Industry

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:40:36 +0000

A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that US lawmakers opposing environmental protections get rewards from the oil and gas industry

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A Georgia Town Gets Half Of Its Electricity From President Jimmy Carter’s Solar Farm

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 06:19:50 +0000

Plains, Georgia, is a small town that is just south of Columbus, Macon, and Atlanta and north of Albany. It is the hometown of former United States President Jimmy Carter. On his farmland, there were once nut and soybean crops that would stretch their fingers to the ends of the horizons as if reaching for the unknown. Those have been replaced by 3,852 solar panels that provide clean energy for over half of Plains,

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Democratic Presidential Candidates On Climate & Energy — Pete Buttigieg & Elizabeth Warren

Credit to Author: Winter Wilson| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 07:36:40 +0000

In the second half of this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Zach Shahan continues his discussion with Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, about the climate action plans (and other political matters) of current presidential candidates. This second part of a two-part series spends a lot of time discussing Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, and the evolution (or devolution) in the Democratic Party and Republican Party

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Democratic Presidential Candidates On Climate & Energy — Kamala Harris (RIP) & Mike Bloomberg

Credit to Author: Winter Wilson| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 04:55:38 +0000

In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Zach Shahan sits down again with Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, to talk about the climate action plans of current presidential candidates. This first part of a two-part series spends a lot of time discussing the Kamala Harris campaign (RIP) and Mike Bloomberg’s unique entry and position

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