Amid pandemic, U.S. renewable power sources have topped coal for 40 days
(Reuters) - Electricity generated by renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro has exceeded coal-fired power in the United States for a record 40 straight days, according to a report based on U.S. government data released on Monday.
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Amid Pandemic, U.S. Renewable Power Sources Have Topped Coal for 40 Days
State And Local Leaders Set Climate Goals, But Can We Meet Them?
State And Local Leaders Set Climate Goals, But Can We Meet Them?
With the federal government's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, state and local governments in North Carolina have set their own ambitious goals for addressing climate change. Now, they're puzzling over how to carry out the big changes needed to reach those goals - such as switching to electric vehicles and shifting to more renewable energy.
Duke's Energy Policy: The Plan, Criticism, and Future of Energy in North Carolina
WRAL-TV ON THE RECORD, January 25, 2020 / Focused on an issue that affects every single North Carolinian, energy. How we get it, how we pay for it and how reliable it will be in the future. Duke Energy recently announced a new climate strategy. Among our guests are Vice President of Duke's Energy Policy, Diane Denton, to discuss the plan, the criticism and the future of energy in North Carolina. Followed by Southern Environmental Law Center attorney Gudrun Thompson and Dr. Drew Shindell (Climate Scientist, Duke University) who reinforce the stance that Duke Energy needs to stop building fracked ("natural") gas power plants and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Dr. Shindell makes the case that solar paired with battery storage is environmentally and economically better than gas.
Careful Measurement of Environmental Trends and Progress Provides a Foundation for Effective Policymaking
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Careful measurement of environmental trends and progress provides a foundation for effective policymaking. The 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 180 countries on 24 performance indicators across ten issue categories covering environmental health and ecosystem vitality. These metrics provide a gauge at a national scale of how close countries are to established environmental policy goals.
Podcast Featuring Southerners Who Are Stewards of the Environment
Broken Ground Podcast
The Broken Ground team is dedicated to telling the stories of people from all walks of life. We are looking for the stories of Southerners who are stewards of the environment, truth-tellers, and on the front lines fighting to protect our precious water, air, and land. Do you have a story to tell?
New Solar + Battery Price Crushes Fossil Fuels & Nuclear
New Solar + Battery Price Crushes Fossil Fuels, Buries Nuclear
Los Angeles Power and Water officials have struck a deal on the largest and cheapest solar + battery-storage project in the world, at prices that leave fossil fuels in the dust and may relegate nuclear power to the dustbin.
Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending
Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending
The world would be richer and healthier if the full costs of fossil fuels were paid, according to a new report from the International Monetary Fund
Over 100 People Packed the February 04, 2019 NC Utilities Commission to Speak Strongly Against Duke's Dirty-Energy Plans
A Message from NC WARN
50 Speakers and Prominent Officials Urged Utilities Commission Monday to Reject Duke's 15-Year Plan for More Climate Destruction. Please Add Your Voice!
Over 100 people packed the Utilities Commission public hearing Monday night on the 15-year plan by Duke Energy to greatly expand its use of climate-wrecking fracked gas and become only 8 percent renewable.
Thank you to the 50 eloquent speakers who testified about the disastrous climate, economic and health impacts of Duke's plan.
Send a short email on Duke's plan: statements@ncuc.net
Tell the Commissioners to reject Duke's 15-year plan and force Duke Energy to stop blocking consideration of NC WARN's Clean Path 2025 strategy
Dale Evarts, former director of the Climate and International Group at the Environmental Protection Agency, testified about the harmful climate, health and agricultural impacts of methane (fracked gas), and urged the Commission to send Duke back to the drawing board. Read his testimony or watch the video.
The Commission provided only this one public hearing on Duke's IRP, and has failed to rule on NC WARN's motion for an evidentiary hearing at which we and other intervenors could provide expert testimony and cross-examine Duke officials under oath.
Duke Energy has fought against such a hearing and against consideration of our Clean Path 2025 strategy for quickly replacing all coal and "natural" gas. Urge the Utilities Commission to at least hold an evidentiary hearing that makes Duke Energy openly justify its climate-wrecking plans.
The Disarming Case to Act Right Now on Climate Change
Greta Thunberg: The disarming case to act right now on climate change
In this passionate call to action, 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg explains why, in August 2018, she walked out of school and organized a strike to raise awareness of global warming, protesting outside the Swedish parliament and grabbing the world's attention. "The climate crisis has already been solved.
Public Badly Needs Clarity on Climate Urgency and Options in 2019
Public Badly Needs Clarity on Climate Urgency and Options in 2019 -- News Release from NC WARN | NC WARN
If another year passes without the public learning that the U.S. fracking boom is a key driver of the climate crisis - especially in the critical short term - humanity's chances of averting runaway climate and social chaos could shrink to nil.
The World Needs to Quit Coal. Why Is It So Hard?
The World Needs to Quit Coal. Why Is It So Hard?
Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd: , our email newsletter. HANOI, Vietnam - Coal, the fuel that powered the industrial age, has led the planet to the brink of catastrophic climate change.
2018 Citizens’ Climate Lobby Southeast Regional Conference in Asheville, NC March 24th & 25th
2018 Southeast Regional Conference
Welcome to Citizens' Climate Lobby Southeast Regional Conference Saturday, March 24 - Sunday, March 25 The Collider Suite 401, 1 Haywood St., Asheville, NC 28801 The theme for the conference is "Walk a mile in their shoes." Learn how conservatives and progressives communicate differently - and learn how to apply these ideas to your conversations with conservatives to grow CCL's membership.
Most Dire Climate Change Predictions, Warns New Study, Are Also the Most Accurate
Most Dire Climate Change Predictions, Warns New Study, Are Also the Most Accurate
Climate change is occurring at a faster rate than has previously been predicted, according to a new study which suggests that the most extreme estimates of the effects of global warming are likelier than more optimistic predictions.
World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice
World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice | BioScience | Oxford Academic
© The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com...Twenty-five years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1700 independent scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates in the sciences, penned the 1992 "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity" (see supplemental file S1).
Electricity Prices Plummet as Gas, Wind Gain Traction and Demand Stalls
Electricity Prices Plummet as Gas, Wind Gain Traction and Demand Stalls
The rapid rise of wind and natural gas as sources of electricity is roiling U.S. power markets, forcing more companies to close older generating plants.
This Bodes Badly....
Fossil fuel emissions will reach an all-time high in 2017, scientists say - dashing hopes of progress
Global carbon dioxide emissions are projected to rise again in 2017, climate scientists reported Monday, a troubling development for the environment and a major disappointment for those who had hoped emissions of the climate change-causing gas had at last peaked.
U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump
U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials
The White House put out a statement Friday that seemed to undercut the high level of confidence of the report's findings. "The climate has changed and is always changing," Raj Shah, a White House spokesman, said in the statement.
Duke Energy Wants You to Pay to Clean Up a Mess They Knowingly Made
Speak out against Duke Energy's attempt to hike our residential rates by 16.7%, in part to pay for their mismanagement of coal ash. The culpable managers and Duke's shareholders should bear these costs, not us ratepayers. Duke Energy has put our water and communities at risk, and now they want us to pay the price for their bad business practices. No communities should pay an unfair burden. Sign a petition against rate hikes for dirty energy: http://action.ncconservationnetwork.org/ratehikespetition.Insurers: We're off the hook, Duke Energy knew coal ash risk
RALEIGH - Dozens of insurance companies say they're not obligated to help pay for Duke Energy Corp.'s multi-billion dollar coal ash cleanup because the nation's largest electric company long knew about but did nothing to reduce the threat of potentially toxic pollutants.
The Coming Storm of Climate Change
The Coming Storm of Climate Change
Hurricanes, droughts, and other extreme weather raise the question: Was that related to global warming? This short video looks at what scientists call climate attribution studies, which gauge how big an influence humanity may have had on weather. Hint: a lot. (Source: Bloomberg)
A Newspaper Clipping from 1912 Anticipated the Global Warming Potential of Burning Coal!
This article, published in the New York Times, has been well-researched by Snopes.com and been rated as being TRUE.News Coverage of Coal's Link to Global Warming, in 1912
Scientific analysis pointing to a human role in warming the climate through burning fossil fuels goes back to 1896, with Svante Arrhenius's remarkable paper, " On the Influence of Carbonic Acid [Carbon Dioxide] in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground."
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