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Strategic shutdowns of pollution monitors kill people. Instead of writing an excessively angry piece about the abysmal outcome of the latest global climate negotiations, I calmed myself down chemically by … Continue Reading Trashing My Scale Won’t Make Me Less Fat
The United States and China are going in the opposite direction on coal. I’m a little surprised by the optimism in this week’s “World Energy Outlook 2022” from the International … Continue Reading Putting China’s Coal Consumption in Context
The U.S. cannot afford four more years of pandering to coal. Never has climate change felt so real as waking up two weeks ago to orange skies, darkened by the … Continue Reading Time to Vote Out Coal
Environmental damages from U.S. power plants are down $100+ billion annually since 2010. Remember 2010? It was not so long ago. Obama was President. The iPhone 4 was introduced. The … Continue Reading U.S. Power Plant Emissions Down 45% Since 2010
An inventor, fracking, history and the future. If you have been following this blog for a while, you know that we rotate Mondays. And, if you’ve been following it for … Continue Reading 2018 Energy Books
Setting prices too low is a climate problem, but so is setting prices too high. We didn’t hear much about electricity pricing at last week’s Global Climate Action Summit in … Continue Reading The Electricity Price Isn’t Right
Are we now trying to kill coal by banning trade? This has been an eventful week on and off the court (Go Warriors!). The executive branch of the government is … Continue Reading Energy Trade Wars
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