Despite PR damage over earlier spills, documents show oil firm pressed for reduced regulation BP stepped up its campaign to be allowed to drill for oil in the Arctic sea and an Alaskan wildlife refuge after Donald Trump was elected president, according to documents that detail the British firm’s lobbying efforts. Documents written by BP and oil industry groups show how the oil “supermajor” seized on the opportunity presented by Trump’s 2016 election victory to expand its offshore business, just seven years after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill . Continue reading...
May 19, 2019 7:36 PM SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison celebrated his surprise election win on Sunday (May 19) as the ruling Coalition edged closer to an outright majority that would help it to secure its tax plans and to avoid adopting tougher climate change action.
Victorious Zali Steggall has implored Prime Minister Scott Morrison to up his game on climate change for the sake of his children - following his unexpected win in last night's Federal Election.
Pigs are the latest weapon residents of Borgarfjörður eystri, the East Fjords, Iceland, have chosen to use in their fight against climate change.
May 19, 2019 3:39 PM GHORAMARA ISLAND, India (AFP) - Residents on Ghoramara fear that the votes they cast on Sunday (May 19) in India's election may be the last before their island sinks into the Bay of Bengal - a victim of climate change's growing toll.
Australia's re-elected Prime Minister Scott Morrison once brandished a lump of coal in parliament, crying, "This is coal - don't be afraid!" His surprise win in what some dubbed the 'climate election' may have stunned the country, but voters should know what comes next in energy policy - big coal.
HOW we eat is a significant factor in how big our greenhouse emissions are. It's a key part of the story of how we change, globally, locally and in our own kitchens, to avert climate crisis. But it’s often hard to work out where to start, or what are the worst culprits in our shopping baskets. This guide to a few plates of food offers some idea of what has the biggest impact. What's the beef on steak? Is it time we dethroned King Prawn?
Most emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) are linked to the use of nitrogen (N) fertiliser in agriculture, highlighting a need for agricultural management practices that reduce emissions while maintaining agronomic productivity. A new study has assessed the long-term impact of conventional tillage (CT — where soil is prepared for agriculture via mechanical agitation) and no-tillage (NT) systems on soil N2O emissions and crop productivity in rain-fed Mediterranean conditions. The findings show that, over a period of 18 years, mean yield-scaled (i.e. per unit grain yield) soil N2O emissions (YSNE) were 2.8 to 3.3 times lower under NT than CT. The researchers therefore recommend NT as a suitable strategy by which to balance agricultural productivity with lower soil N2O emissions in rain-fed Mediterranean...
Sajid Javid is seeking greater powers for police to clamp down on protesters such as those taking part in last month's climate change demonstrations across London.
May 18, 2019 7:18 PM SYDNEY (AFP) - Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott, infamous for once calling the science behind climate change "crap", has become the first big scalp in the country's elections on Saturday (May 18).
Former vice-president launches campaign in Pennsylvania Claims: ‘I am running to offer our country a different path’ Formally launching his third presidential campaign on Saturday, Joe Biden accused Donald Trump of leading America with “a clenched fist, closed hand and a hard heart”. Related: Could climate change submerge Joe Biden's presidential bid? Continue reading...
Scott Morrison’s government set to hang on to power despite polls predicting his demise It was billed as the climate change election, and the climate lost. Despite enduring its hottest year on record and a series of environmental calamities that have brought the climate emergency into sharp relief, Australia has voted for the centre-right Liberal party and its coalition partner, and against taking strident action on the climate crisis. Continue reading...
May 18, 2019 11:51 AM WASHINGTON - With tensions high between Iran and the United States, analysts are warning against the danger of brinkmanship backfiring, which would have a serious effect on global energy supplies if a clash closes the maritime choke point of the Straits of Hormuz.
Election result hangs in the balance. The career of Tony Abbott has ended, while the Coalition cling to hopes of retaining power. The post Election Night Update: Abbott booted out, climate and energy policy sits on a knife-edge appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Climate change leads to displacement that can have lasting psychological impacts connected with addiction.
Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Saturday that he saw no oil supply shortage as global oil inventories are still rising, particularly from the United States, but OPEC will be responsive to the oil market's needs.
An estimated 17 million Australians go to the polls Saturday, capping a close-run election race that may be the first anywhere decided on climate policy.Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s conservative Liberals have closed the gap on Labor on the eve of the vote, but differences over climate may prove the difference between the two parties.A season of record floods, wildfires and droughts has brought the issue has been front and centre of the campaign.The Chinese-Australian community’s votes are a…
The Latest: An Iraqi oil official says employees of energy giant Exxon Mobil have started evacuating an oil field in the southern province of Basra
The father of the Queenstown pilot killed in a crash at Fox Glacier says the Civil Aviation Authority has "a hell of lot to answer for", following apologies from two scenic helicopter bosses. Mitch Gameren ...
Votes are being counted after Saturday’s Australian election, with senior opposition lawmakers gaining confidence they will form a center-left government with a focus on slashing greenhouse gas emissions
Millions of Australians voted in a general election on Saturday in which the ruling conservative coalition campaigned on its record of economic management and a resurgent Labor opposition promised action on climate change and tax reform.
Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Saturday that OPEC will be responsive to the oil market's needs, but that he was not sure there is an oil shortage with data, particularly from the United States, still showing inventories building.
Allowing offshore hydrocarbon exploration betrays government’s compact with the youth
A study by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology said “El Nino Modoki”, a weather system different from El Nino, could be responsible for the increase in heat waves in India. Depletion of soil moisture and transfer of heat from the earth to the atmosphere would also trigger them.
Governments of the world need to act. It’s time to speak to our planet with kindness before it’s too late All the raspy-voice myna birds have come here, to this old swamp, where the ghost swans now dance the yellow dust song cycles of drought. Around and around the dry swamp they go with their webbed feet stomping up the earth in a cloud of dust, and all the bits and pieces of the past unravelled from parched soil. The Swan Book, by Alexis Wright. A dense haze of smoke crawled over Melbourne and embraced us for a day in its lonely pilgrimage, inviting us to contemplate its mourning rite, its long prayer. Continue reading...
Iran’s top diplomat has urged China and Russia to take “concrete action” to safeguard the nuclear deal, warning of a “dangerous situation” amid rising tensions with the US.Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Friday, following the deployment last week of a US aircraft carrier group and B-52 bombers to the Gulf over alleged threats from Iran. Saudi Arabia has also accused Iran of being behind a drone attack which shut down a key oil…
That's a LOT of ice.
More unsettling news from the bottom of the world. Almost one-quarter of the ice in the West Antarctic ice sheet has been classified as "unstable."
Australian bookies predict a return to power for the Labor party in an election on Saturday after six years in the political wilderness and a campaign in which it has put climate change and tax reform at the top of its agenda.
Brazil will overhaul rules for selecting projects to reduce deforestation supported by the Amazon Fund, which is financed by Norway and Germany, after discovering irregularities in spending, Environment Minister Ricardo Salles said on Friday.
Three environmental groups have asked the Tennessee Valley Authority's inspector general to probe the power producer's participation in the Utility Air Regulatory Group and other industry trade organizations.
Enel Green Power North America announced on Thursday that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) between its subsidiary White Cloud Wind Project, LLC and Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. (AECI), a power utility based in Springfield, Missouri. In line with the agreement, AECI will purchase the entire output generated by the 236.5 MW White Cloud wind project, currently in development in Nodaway County, Missouri.
North Korea is experiencing its worst drought in over a century, official media reported on Friday, days after the World Food Programme expressed “very serious concerns” about the situation in the country.The isolated, impoverished North – which is under several sets of sanctions over its nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programmes – has long struggled to feed itself, and suffers chronic food shortages.It recorded its worst harvest for a decade last year, according to the United Nations,…
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. This post has separate sections for: Climate Change, Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change Mitigation, and Other Papers. Climate change An example of principal component analysis application on climate change assessment Temperature, precipitation, wind An examination of temperature trends at high elevations across the Tibetan Plateau: The use of MODIS LST to understand patterns of elevation‐dependent warming Temperature variability of the Baltic Sea since 1850 and attribution to atmospheric forcing variables Dominant east-west pattern of diurnal temperature range observed across Zambia Simulation of Temperature Series and Small Networks from Data Micro-scale warming due to poor ventilation...
A conservation group has claimed that koalas are "functionally extinct". That isn't true, but many populations are falling sharply due to habitat loss and global warming
U.S. energy firms this week reduced the number of oil rigs operating for the second week in a row, with the rig count at its lowest since March 2018, as some drillers follow through on plans to cut spending. Drillers cut three oil rigs in the week to May 17, bringing the total count down to 802, below the 844 units operating a year ago, General Electric Co's Baker Hughes energy services firm said in its closely followed report on Friday. More than half the total U.S. oil rigs are in the Permian basin, where active units decreased by three this week to 454, matching a recent low hit in March that was the lowest since April 2018.
U.S. energy firms this week reduced the number of oil rigs operating for the second week in a row, with the rig count at its lowest since March 2018, as some drillers follow through on plans to cut spending. Drillers cut three oil rigs in the week to May 17, bringing the total count down to 802, below the 844 units operating a year ago, General Electric Co's Baker Hughes energy services firm said in its closely followed report on Friday. Major oil companies, like Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp, however, are boosting their presence, particularly in the Permian, the largest U.S. shale oil field.
A Hawaii geothermal power company must win state approval before rebuilding transmission lines wiped out by volcanic eruption, reports said.
The National Coal Council trumpeted non-burning uses of coal in a report published yesterday.
EPA, rebuffing objections from environmental groups, has approved changes to one part of an Obama-era plan intended to reduce haze-forming emissions from a Wyoming coal-fired power plant.
EPA union officials have grown disappointed in the agency's response to a series of racist incidents that first grabbed attention last year.
Risk to oil market of three simultaneous disruptions becomes lobbying point for Iran and Libya In November 2018, Donald Trump tweeted : “Oil prices getting lower … a tax cut for America and the world! Enjoy! $54 … Thank you to Saudi Arabia.” Five months on, with oil prices more than $70, Trump will be in a less celebratory mood as Opec’s oil ministers and their allies gather in Jeddah on Friday, without Iran. The main agenda item will be the implications for oil of three interconnected American foreign policy crises – in Venezuela, Iran, and Libya. Together these crises, being played out simultaneously, have the potential to scrub as much as 3.5m barrels of oil per day from the markets. Continue reading...
The Democratic governor’s environmental initiatives have had a cold reception, even in his blue state.
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] The wellbeing of families is central to healthy societies, but is threatened by climate change, especially in the poorest parts of the world
THE GOVERNMENT is exposing the country to significant risk by delaying changes to the carbon pricing regime, says one of the architects of the Emissions Trading Scheme.
[African Utility Week and POWERGEN Africa] Investment in renewable energy projects must translate into sustainable, real and meaningful impact in the communities where the IPPs (Independent Power Producers programme) are centred, delegates at the African Utility Week and POWERGEN Africa conference and exhibition in Cape Town heard on Thursday. Yet this, according to a senior consultant in renewable energy economic development Dr Ric Amansure, is not always the case.
Southern California was hit by the wettest winter in years. The snowpack, an important measurement of the state’s water supply, looks great. And in mid-May — two months after the official end of winter — the rain and snow just keep coming. California was clobbered this week by another storm, which...
[Ghanaian Times] Primary school pupils, will from the forthcoming academic year -beginning September - start learning climate change and green economy as part of the new education curriculum.
Iran's foreign ministry on Friday rejected accusations by Saudi Arabia that Tehran had ordered an attack on Saudi oil installations claimed by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militia. U.S.-ally Riyadh made the accusation amid growing tension between Iran and its arch-foe the United States, which has built up its military presence in the region alleging threats from Iran to its troops and interests.
Oil edged up towards $73 a barrel on Friday, heading for a weekly gain, supported by supply cuts and concern over potential further disruption to Middle East shipments as political tensions rise.
The Atlantic hurricane season is June 1-Nov. 30. Is your name Andrea, Fernand or Sebastien? If so, there's a storm with your moniker.
Japan is aiming to host the first Olympic Games powered solely by renewable sources. If successful, this could help the country carve a new niche in the global order as a champion of climate action.
"A great variety of climate geoengineering projects have been driven forward throughout the past months, while questions remain about their side effects and long-term impacts. In what follows, we highlight some recent or ongoing climate geoengineering activities." LINK
Five years ago, flooding in the Vrbas River Basin devastated Bosnia and Herzegovina. As climate change makes such extreme weather ever-more likely, the small country is making sure it's better prepared.
West Antarctica's glaciers are increasingly vulnerable to collapse, according to a new survey of the Southern Continent's ice.
Climate change is emerging as a key campaign issue in a number of countries this year.
Anheuser-Busch has wrapped up work on a large solar energy project that will help power a brewery in central New York state.
ST. LOUIS — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday announced his charity, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Washington University in St. Louis will organize a meeting of Midwestern universities focused on mitigating the effects of climate change and transitioning to 100% clean energy.
Can businesses ease the threat of climate change and be more competitive at the same time? That's the major question arising from experiments by Walmart and several environmental groups.
Oil edged higher to $73 a barrel on Friday, supported by a host of supply cuts and concern of further disruption to Middle East shipments as tensions rise, and was heading for a weekly gain.
North Dakota regulators say the state's oil production remained at a near-record level in March.
Scientists are getting closer to understanding what some bacteria already know: how to break methane molecules into useful chemical components at common temperatures and pressures.
A coalition of environmental and public health advocacy groups is suing the Interior Department over its decision to allow pipelines and power lines associated with a proposed Utah oil shale plant to cross federal lands.
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Oil edged higher toward $73 a barrel on Friday, supported by real and threatened supply disruptions in the Middle East and heading for a weekly gain.
Kazakh oil flowing via Russia to be loaded on tankers at the Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga has been contaminated and Kazakhstan plans to seek compensation from Russian pipeline monopoly Transneft, a senior Kazakh energy official said.
The Redflow deployment will be part of the Haidong Transportation Group’s Smart Grid Project in Qinghai Province, which is recognised as a key market in China’s shift to a low carbon renewable energy future. The post Redflow expands into China appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The bosses of a scenic helicopter that crashed at Fox Glacier and killed seven people have today apologised for the 2015 tragedy. Queenstown pilot Mitch Gameren, 28, died alongside six tourists when ...
Oil prices were steady on Friday, giving up earlier gains, and were on track for the first weekly increases this month, as rising tensions in the Middle East stoked fears of supply disruptions.
Aaccording to the UK's solar power trade group, the peak solar generation record was broken twice over the first two days of this week. The post After week of no coal, UK breaks another peak solar generation record appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Jona Ratu and his friends wanted to build an eco-lodge in their corner of paradise – then the diggers arrived It was one of the most surreal days of Jona Ratu’s life. On a May morning in 2018 he strolled down to the palm-fringed beach on a parcel of land he owns on idyllic Malolo island to find a digger parked on the coral reef. “They just dug, they kept digging, digging, digging,” Ratu remembers. Continue reading...
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Air pollution in major regions of northern China increased during the first four months of 2019, the environment ministry said on Friday, raising fears that regions have eased curbs on industry to halt the smog amid concerns about a slowing economy.
New Brunswick is now paying some of the highest gas taxes in the country.
Oil prices rose again on Friday and were on track for the first weekly gains this month, as rising tensions in the Middle East stoked fears of supply disruptions.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Tuukka Rask posted his seventh career playoff shutout, and the Boston Bruins swept the Carolina Hurricanes out of the Eastern Conference final, winning 4-0 on Thursday night to reach their third Stanley Cup Final in nine years. Rask made 24 saves in his second straight series-clinching shutout. Patrice Bergeron scored two goals,...
Last year, I organised, lobbied and arranged funds for a 100kW solar array for my school in Sydney’s south. This year, I will let my vote do the talking. The post Lessons from a solar school campaigner: Why your climate vote counts appeared first on RenewEconomy.
by Talia Buford When the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities approved $300 million in subsidies last month for nuclear plants operated by the energy company PSEG, it wasn’t a surprise. The company had pumped millions into lobbying, and it threatened to close the facilities, which are seen as a vital piece of the state’s clean energy agenda. But some of the board members who voted for subsidies had openly questioned the need for them, echoing concerns expressed by the board’s staff and objections raised by utility watchdogs. Now, the unusual circumstances around the vote are the basis of a legal challenge by the state-appointed utility advocate, who says the subsidies — and the surcharge financing them — should be cut off. In...
Saudi Arabia blames Tehran for drone attack by Yemen’s rebels that knocked out key oil pipeline, as newspaper close to palace calls for “surgical” U.S. strikes on Iran
Oil prices edged higher on Friday, extending gains into a fourth session as rising tensions in the Middle East stoked fears of potential supply disruptions.
By combining 25 years of ESA satellite data, scientists have discovered that warming ocean waters have caused the ice to thin so rapidly that 24% of the glacier ice in West Antarctica is now affected.
Mexico’s government ordered schools in and around Mexico City to be closed on Thursday in an extraordinary step taken due to elevated levels of pollution in the smog-wreathed capital. Smoke from nearby wildfires has pushed pollution to levels deemed potentially harmful to human health. Smoke and fires in Southern Mexico are observed in this image taken by the NASA Aqua MODIS satellite on May 12, 2019. Credit: Courtesy of NASA/Handout via Reuters The city’s authorities declared an environmental emergency on Tuesday. They have come under pressure to act due to reduced visibility caused by smoke and ash in the air during an extended dry spell. According to the World Air Quality Index, Mexico on Thursday was reporting levels superseding China and India. Over the past days, Mexico City air quality...
Hannah Upp, a 32-year-old teacher, suffering from a rare form of temporary amnesia known as 'Dissociative Fugue' vanished from her home in St.Thomas Island after a 2017 hurricane.
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Climate change is rising up the list of voter concerns in the United States with nearly 40% saying the issue will be crucial in how they cast their ballots in the 2020 presidential election, according to a poll released on Thursday.
Climate is front and center in campaign rhetoric. But the future of fossil fuels will be decided by the country’s trade partners.
I've seen floods and toxic fires, but I see a brighter future — and young people who are willing to fight for it.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday repeatedly called out Joe Biden for his approach on climate, suggesting that the former vice president is naive about working with Republicans on the issue.
THE islands off Scotland’s northern edge have more than most to fear from global warming; from rising seas and increasingly unstable weather.
Sen. Chuck Grassley today accused EPA of lying about its reasons for easing biofuel blending mandates for small refineries, following a news report that contradicted some of the agency's public statements.
Speaking on a visit to Salford in Manchester he said the party's policy was 'win-win' and 'crucial' at a time of global climate change. He said it would mean lower bills and free power for the poorest.
Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt spent nearly $124,000 in excessive airfare expenses without proper justification during a 10-month period.
The Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog has found $124,000 in improper travel expenses by former administrator Scott Pruitt. It suggests the agency find a way to recover those costs.
A tanker carrying Iranian fuel oil in violation of US sanctions has unloaded the cargo into storage tanks near the Chinese city of Zhoushan, according to ship tracking data on Refinitiv Eikon.The discharging of the nearly 130,000 tonnes of Iranian fuel oil on board the tanker Marshal Z, confirmed by a representative of the oil storage terminal, marks the end of an odyssey for the cargo that began four months ago.Reuters reported on March 20 that some Iranian fuel oil had managed to evade the…
The Bank of Canada is highlighting its growing concerns about the challenges of climate change for the economy and the financial system.
With increasing public concern over climate change, interest is turning to geoengineering again. Is it time to take a serious look at engineering our climate?
China’s National Coal Mine Safety Administration said it has set a production cap of 8 million tonnes of coal a year for each mine deemed to be at risk from so-called bumps.As part of the measure to improve safety, capacity expansion on such mines will also be banned once they are in operation, the safety watchdog said in a statement on Wednesday.The announcement follows a coal mine accident in the eastern province of Shandong in October in which 21 people died. Coal mining safety in China…
The federal Green Party today unveiled an ambitious climate action plan it intends to take into the fall election campaign — one that promises to double Canada's current greenhouse gas reduction targets.
Don’t count on a summer heat wave to rescue Asia’s liquefied natural gas prices. Weather forecasts signal lackluster demand in the largest importing region, raising ...
Lawmakers in Texas are considering a bill that would stiffen penalties for damaging or trespassing around oil and gas operations despite opposition from environmental groups who say it would quell peaceful protests and overly criminalize offenses.
A contract worker has been sentenced to a year of probation for a Clean Water Act violation connected to a deadly 2012 oil platform explosion off Louisiana's coast.
Democratic presidential hopeful Jay Inslee is outlining a plan to fight climate change and expand clean energy across the economy, including infrastructure, manufacturing and scientific research.
The director of Illinois' environmental agency abruptly reversed positions last year on a key air quality compliance recommendation after being contacted by Clint Woods, the deputy head of EPA's air office, according to public records cited in federal court litigation.
GE, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and specializes in renewable energy network solutions, will construct along with ENPPI the Assiut transformer station for petroleum refining of the type isolated by gas, which is planned to provide the newly built Naftha petroleum refinery with its electricity needs. The deal is valued at … Continued The post GE, ENPPI to construct Assiut transformer station appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Carlos Barria/REUTERS Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) unveiled his second major climate change proposal on Thursday, doubling down on his sole mission to elevate the issue on the national stage and convince voters he’s the only one to tackle it. “The most obvious, huge job creating opportunity we have is in the clean energy sector,” Inslee told The Daily Beast in an interview. “This is not a matter just of urgent environmental peril, it’s a matter of tremendous economic promise.” The two-term governor’s “Evergreen Economy” plan aims to add 8 million jobs over a 10-year period by investing $9 trillion into the clean energy economy. He’s expected to detail several of the proposal’s 28 policy initiatives focused on innovation, advanced manufacturing, green infrastructure, and deployment, in a speech...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has canceled a United Nations climate change workshop to be held in the city of Salvador in August, reaffirming its lack of interest in participating in international efforts to fight global warming. The far-right Bolsonaro has made clear he intends to make major … Continued The post AP Explains: Brazil’s environmental changes under Bolsonaro appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Oil prices jumped 2% on Thursday as tensions in the Middle East grew, with a Saudi-led coalition launching air strikes in retaliation for recent attacks on its oil infrastructure.
The findings were issued nearly a year after Pruitt resigned as EPA chief amid controversy over his spending and ties to lobbyists and outside groups.
National Grid chief says Labour policy will also stall move to cleaner energy as firm unveils £1.8bn profit The chief executive of National Grid has warned that Labour’s renationalisation proposals would hold back the UK’s move to cleaner energy and mean higher prices for customers, as the company reported an £1.8bn annual profit. National Grid, which runs the UK’s national electricity network , said its profit for the 12 months to 31 March was down by nearly a third from £2.7bn the year before. It wrote off £137m of costs spent to connect two nuclear UK projects in Cumbria and Wales that were cancelled, and also took a financial hit from a seven-month labour dispute at its US business. Continue reading...
[263Chat] Zimbabwe will by 2030, have done away with diesel and petrol powered vehicles and is likely to adopt electrically powered engines, in an effort to reduce carbon emissions that are largely blamed for fast-tracking global warming, 263Chat has learnt.
Global energy investment reached $US1.8trn in 2018, but renewable generation saw declines in dollar terms and only a small increase in capacity growth. The post Fossil fuel investment increased in 2018, as renewables stalled: IEA appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Canadian politicians are expected to debate Thursday whether or not to declare a national climate emergency.
BNEF says electric cars will dominate global new car sales by 2040, but petrol car sales may already have peaked. Meanwhile, head of ARENA also gets bullish on EVs in Australia. The post Global petrol car sales may already have passed their peak as consumers eye EVs appeared first on RenewEconomy.
An unusually wet spring storm that began sprinkling — and sometimes dumping — rain on Los Angeles early Thursday has already shattered at least one precipitation record in California and is poised to break a few more, forecasters say. The unseasonably late low-pressure system that moved into the...
The global plastic industry is on track to produce enough emissions to put the world on track for a catastrophic warming scenario.
Existing targets in the Scottish Energy Strategy and Climate Change plan must be delivered in full; challenges that have so far been out of scope must now be confronted.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee, a 2020 Democratic presidential contender whose campaign is focused on climate change, unveiled a plan to invest $9 trillion in 10 years in modern manufacturing and green infrastructure to "revitalize America's economy for the 21st century."
ACT becomes first state or territory to make formal declaration of climate emergency and calls on federal support for jurisdictions to prepare for climate change impacts. The post ACT declares climate change emergency – slams federal government failure to act appeared first on RenewEconomy.
[VOA] Flooding caused by Cyclone Idai affected a million people across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in March, and forced hundreds of thousands out of their homes. But in Malawi, certain communities were spared because of flood mitigation projects sponsored by the World Food Program.
The Trump administration made it easier for oil refineries to get waivers from the nation's biofuel law at least four months before a 2017 court decision it often cites to justify the move to the corn lobby, and the move was motivated by a desire to save the oil industry money, Reuters has learned.
[Guardian] Port Harcourt, Lagos and Abuja -Elders under the aegis of Gbo Kaabari Ogoni have petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari to halt the resumption of oil and gas production in their area to avert bloodbath.
It's not just big oil and power companies that investors are pushing to do better on the environment.
After backing out of hosting the 2019 U.N. climate summit, Brazil has now canceled a United Nations climate change event that was to be held in August in the city of Salvador.
Elizabeth Warren wants to ensure the U.S. military is treating climate change as a top threat.
A dizzying number of corporate carbon tax initiatives are flying around Washington these days.
BOULDER, Colo. — Scientists made "major overestimations" of methane emissions from oil and gas production in the United States by relying on faulty measurements, according to new research sponsored by NOAA.
[New Zimbabwe] LOW water levels at Kariba and depressed coal supplies at Hwange Thermal Power Station, are threatening to plunge the country into darkness within the next three months, Energy Minister Joram Gumbo has said.
Environmentalists and community activists are asking Colorado regulators to stop issuing new oil and gas drilling permits until they rewrite the rules under a new law that makes public safety and the environment the state's top priorities.
Nine years after the nation's largest oil spill, NOAA Fisheries yesterday proposed spending $226 million on 18 projects aimed at restoring some of the massive damage done to sea life.
Senators from both parties railed against the Trump administration's proposal to sell federal grid assets and insisted investments are needed to curb climate change.
Oil prices rose on Thursday for a third day running as fears of supply disruption amid heightened tensions in the Middle East overshadowed swelling U.S. crude inventories.
[East African] Delays in the setting up Tanzania's first liquefied natural gas export facility could hurt the country's chances of attracting foreign direct investments for projects in the extractive industry, warns a new report by Deloitte.
Effort to build offshore wind turbines to power up to 6m homes will create more than 10,000 jobs under Climate Jobs New York plan As global warming has worsened in recent years, environmentalists and union members have often protested against each other, whether over fracking, oil pipelines, coal production or the Green New Deal. But an innovative new labor-environmentalist effort in New York – to build offshore wind turbines to power up to 6m homes – is a sharp departure from all that feuding and shows that these two groups can work together to advance renewable energy and reduce dependence on carbon-based energy. Continue reading...
Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten has referred to climate change as an "emergency," in his final formal pitch to voters ahead of Saturday's federal election. The post Shorten declares climate “emergency” as top priority for Labor appeared first on RenewEconomy.
[Premium Times] Nigerians have been advised to install carbon monoxide detectors in their vehicles, houses, offices, and factories to avoid inhaling harmful air.
Drilling and associated development of oil in the Australian Bight will be decided by an approval system totally inadequate in the complex world of today. The post Oil drilling in Australian Bight a disaster for climate, biodiversity appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Fossil-fuel advocates have a favourite rejoinder to those who predict a global shift to renewable energy: Coal has never been more popular.
Some research suggests rising sea levels and flooding brought by global warming are harming coastal property values. But other climate scientists note shortcomings in the studies, and real estate experts say they simply haven’t seen any ebb in the demand. So how much owners, communities should worry — and how much they should invest in remedies — remains an open question.
Warplanes struck in and around the rebel-held Yemeni capital Thursday two days after the insurgents claimed drone strikes that shut a key oil pipeline in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, the rebels and witnesses said. One witness told AFP he heard a loud explosion in the heart of Sanaa. In an initial tweet, the broadcaster reported six strikes on the Arhab district of Sanaa province.
Queensland energy minister says controversial new solar rules will result in a more highly skilled workforce, and won't get in way of state's renewable energy target. The post Queensland energy minister describes lampooned new solar rules as “visionary” appeared first on RenewEconomy.
A tanker carrying Iranian fuel oil in violation of U.S. sanctions has unloaded the cargo into storage tanks near the Chinese city of Zhoushan, according to ship tracking data on Refinitiv Eikon.
Nature, Published online: 16 May 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01543-6The result could make the country a world leader on global-warming action — or leave it lagging.
Industry professionals came together on Wednesday in Fort MacLeod to discuss the future of alternative energy in Alberta.
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation on Wednesday struck down a proposed pipeline project that would have delivered natural gas reserves from Pennsylvania to New York. The proposed plan, called the Northeast Supply Enhancement, was touted by unions who would have worked on its construction and the New York Business Council, but criticized by...
Shares in Keyera Corp. rose by as much as nine per cent after it announced it will proceed with a long-anticipated $1.3-billion pipeline to bring natural gas liquids from northwestern Alberta to market.
New analysis shows solar and storage projects are beating out gas projects with prices in the low $US30s/MWh, and are easily beating fossil fuels in Hawaii. The post PV peakers: How solar and batteries are killing new gas projects in US appeared first on RenewEconomy.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil’s decision to evacuate its foreign staff from the West Qurna 1 oilfield in southern Iraq on Saturday was “unacceptable and unjustified”, Iraq’s Oil Minister Thamer Ghadhban said on Sunday. “The withdrawal of multiple employees – despite their small number – temporarily has nothing to do with the security situation or … Continued The post Iraq oil minister calls Exxon Mobil’s evacuation of foreign staff ‘unacceptable’ appeared first on Egypt Independent.
May 19, 2019 4:11 PM MELBOURNE (REUTERS) - Australia's re-elected Prime Minister Scott Morrison once brandished a lump of coal in Parliament, crying, "This is coal - don't be afraid!" His surprise win in what some dubbed the 'climate election' may have stunned the country, but voters should know what comes next in energy policy - big coal.
The hardscrabble village of Nikolayevka emerged as the epicenter of an international oil scandal.
Letter to senior figures urges them to use their power to influence public opinion on climate change Environmental activists Extinction Rebellion have turned their fire on the advertising industry in a public letter, encouraging it to use its expertise in manipulating public opinion for good or risk mass public protests against it. Speaking to the Guardian, one of the authors of the letter, which was written by Extinction Rebellion members with decades of experience of the advertising industry, said the group was not “singling out advertising, as we previously disrupted fashion week and are systematically challenging all industries who have the platform, influence and skills to tackle this epoch-defining crisis but are failing to do so in any meaningful way”. Continue reading...
The halt on China’s imports of waste paper and plastic that has disrupted US recycling programmes has also spurred investment in American plants that process recyclables.US paper mills are expanding capacity to take advantage of a glut of cheap scrap. Some facilities that previously exported plastic or metal to China have retooled so they can process it themselves.And in a twist, the investors include Chinese companies that are still interested in having access to waste paper or flattened…
May 19, 2019 11:48 AM HON KHOI, VIETNAM (AFP) - The salt farmers of Hon Khoi rise before dawn as they have for generations, fanning out across shallow seawater pools in southern Vietnam to harvest the precious mineral, hoping for a better season than the last.
May 19, 2019 5:00 AM BUKIT MERTAJAM • The Penang authorities believe there are about 400 plastic recycling factories in Seberang Perai alone, but the number of illegal operators may easily outnumber these legal outfits.
Cody tried to replant a San Diego forest destroyed by wildfire but climate change is making it hard.
The flame shell reef at Loch Carron was "devastated" by intensive scallop dredging two years ago.
Apple CEO Tim Cook delivered a commencement speech at Tulane University May 18, and said his generation failed on climate change.
The big losers are action on the climate emergency and the likelihood that Labor will never be as ambitious with its policies again There are a number of unknowns with Saturday night’s result – including whether Scott Morrison will govern in majority or in minority . But some things can be known. This was an election in large part about climate change, and the field evidence shows Australia in 2019 is deeply divided about the road ahead. Continue reading...
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, May 12 through Sat, May 18, 2019 Editor's Pick 12 excuses for climate inaction and how to refute them Using moral clarity to counter defeatism around the climate crisis. Shutterstock There’s a reason why the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has successfully goaded powerful politicians into long-overdue climate action in just six months. Thunberg, who is on the autism spectrum , has become a moral authority. Again and again, she’s clearly articulated how adults have shamefully abdicated their basic duties to protect today’s children and future generations from compounding...
Independent knocks former PM out of parliament with pro-climate action campaign One of the Liberals’ leading conservatives and Australia’s 28th prime minister, Tony Abbott, has lost his blue-ribbon Sydney seat of Warringah after moderate Liberal voters abandoned him in protest at the role he played in opposing climate change action. Abbott lost to the independent candidate and Olympian Zali Steggall, with thecount showing she was likely to win almost 60% of the vote on a two-party-preferred basis. Continue reading...
The setting should have been one of pure, unadulterated, luxury – walking down from my poolside room at one of my favourite hotels, the Goodwood Park in Singapore, dropping my towel and slipping into the pool to swim lazy laps surrounded by tropical plants. Instead, the air was thick with a smoky haze and the hotel was deserted. This was June 2013, when millions of hectares of Sumatran forest were ablaze in the annual “slash and burn” to clear land for palm oil plantations.In Singapore,…
An Iraqi oil official says employees of energy giant ExxonMobil have started evacuating an oil field in the southern province of Basra
A couple of federal agencies you probably haven't heard of keep track of what farmers grow, what Americans eat and how the country's entire food system operates. And the Trump administration wants them out of Washington, D.C. Last summer, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) would relocate somewhere that's closer to farmers and public universities doing agricultural research. But critics, including many scientists, balked, saying the agencies won't be as effective. ERS collects and crunches numbers on everything from how much corn syrup Americans consume to how tariffs affect farmers, while NIFA funds research that does things like closely track climate change. USDA has yet to announce a new...
The former prime minister spoke to the girls outside Manly Village Public School in his north Sydney electorate. They grilled him on his questionable climate change record.
Iran has adopted new tactics and new destinations in shipping its oil exports following the re-imposition of U.S. sanctions, a senior Iranian maritime official was quoted as saying on Saturday by the semi-official ILNA news agency.
Votes are being counted after an Australian election with senior opposition lawmakers gaining confidence that they will form a center-left government with a focus on slashing greenhouse gas emissions
The Bank of Italy plans to adopt investment criteria which reward companies that take action on climate change, joining other central banks, commercial banks and fund managers in ratcheting up pressure on boardrooms to go green.
Create NSW contacted Screenworks, which then demanded the film-makers take down Island Home A New South Wales government agency has demanded the removal from the internet of a hard-hitting environmental short film which urges Australians to “vote for the climate”. Island Home features stirring imagery of Australia’s coastline, warning it will be harmed by the climate emergency, and criticises Adani for the Carmichael coalmine and Equinor’s proposal to drill the Great Australian Bight. Continue reading...
Polls gave Labor a lead before Saturday’s voting with climate change and China’s rise on the minds of voters.
Millions of dollars of federal funding is being used for various revitalization projects set to be completed this summer.
Argentina awarded permits for hydrocarbon exploration in 18 areas off its southern coast to companies including Exxon Mobil Corp, Total SA , YPF SA and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the government said on Friday. The winning companies offered bids totaling $724 million, the government said in official statements, and won the rights to explore for up to 13 years in areas of the South Atlantic, some near the Malvinas Islands under the control of the British government but whose sovereignty is claimed by Argentina. The other companies that will make up exploration consortia in Argentina's Malvinas West basin include BP, Qatar Petroleum, Tullow Oil, Pluspetrol , Wintershall, Equinor, Eni , Mitsui &Co Ltd and Tecpetrol SA.
Every year, the world used to add more coal-fired power plants. Not anymore!
For Isro, the next decade will start with interplanetary missions — Xposat to study cosmic radiation in 2020, Aditya L1 to the Sun in 2021, Mars Orbiter Mission-2 in 2022, Lunar Polar Exploration or Chandrayaan-3 in 2024 and Exoworlds, an exploration outside the solar system in 2028. Mission Venus has been scheduled for 2023 to study its surface atmospheric chemistry.
Angry drivers queued for hours in towns across Venezuela on Friday as fuel shortages worsened in the South American nation following a plunge in gasoline imports and a stoppage at the nation's second-largest oil refinery.
The plan - which passed second reading on Thursday - would amend the Electricity Act to allow local governments and First Nations to partner with local renewable energy power producers.
Gen Saleh Jokar also says Iran’s missiles could easily reach US warships in Gulf Iranian missiles could easily hit US ships in the Gulf, and any conflict would threaten global energy supplies, a senior Iranian military official has said. As tensions simmered on Friday, Tehran blamed the US for an escalating regional crisis that western intelligence officials fear could lead to open conflict. Continue reading...
An ongoing oil spill that has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico for more than 14 years is finally being contained, the U.S. Coast Guard announced on Thursday. The Taylor Energy oil spill began after Hurricane Ivan triggered an underwater mudslide in 2004 that caused the company's oil platform to topple and sink. The New Orleans-based company managed to cap some of the 25 broken pipes leading to the leak, but many were left unplugged. Environmental groups subsequently sued the company in federal court in 2012 . Since then it's been a slew of legal battles, with Taylor Energy playing down the magnitude and environmental impact of the leak. Most recently, Taylor Energy tried to block the Coast Guard from moving ahead with plans to stem the constant flow. The company argued it is not possible...
Its major utility is making major commitments to fossil fuels as the state dithers.
Britain's Guardian newspaper is officially changing its language concerning climate change, opting to call it instead “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown.”
National Grid Plc said on Friday it will not process new applications for natural gas service in its New York City and Long Island service area until Williams Cos Inc's Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) pipeline receives the permits it needs to proceed.
Oil prices edged lower on Friday due to demand fears amid a standoff in Sino-U.S. trade talks, but both benchmarks ended the week higher on rising concerns over supply disruptions in Middle East shipments due to U.S.-Iran political tensions.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) on Friday agreed stricter energy efficiency targets for certain types of ships in an effort to speed up action to cut the sector's emissions.
Ice is without doubt one of the first casualties of climate change, but the effects of our warming world are not only limited to ice melting on Earth’s surface. Ground that has been frozen for thousands of years is also thawing, adding to the climate crisis and causing immediate problems for local communities.
A 2015 blowout at a natural gas well that led to the largest-known release of methane in U.S. history was the result of a corroded pipe casing and safety failures by a California utility, according to an investigation report released Friday. Southern California Gas Co. didn’t investigate previous...
Basketball, ice climbing, swimming and surfing — professional athletes are using their popularity to shed light on climate change and encourage others to do more to protect our environment.
Air pollution in major regions of northern China increased during the first four months of 2019, the environment ministry said on Friday, stoking fear that curbs on industry to halt the smog have been sacrificed as a reaction to a slowing economy.China is in the fifth year of a war on pollution aimed at allaying public unrest about the state of the country’s skies, rivers and soil by raising industrial standards, cutting coal consumption and improving enforcement of environmental laws.However,…
A chronic sheen has become "barely visible" since government contractors installed a new underwater system for capturing and collecting crude at a site in the Gulf of Mexico where oil has been leaking for 14 years, a Coast Guard official said yesterday.
Drilling would not be allowed in the Arctic Ocean under a bill introduced yesterday by Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley, who called the idea both irresponsible and reckless.
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg supports "a Green New Deal" and taxing carbon dioxide emissions, his campaign announced yesterday.
A Canadian Senate committee has passed 187 amendments to an energy bill proposed by the Liberal government that would change how major projects like oil export pipelines are assessed.
Oil prices steadied on Friday, with both benchmarks on track for a weekly gain on rising concerns over potential further supply disruptions in Middle East shipments due to U.S.-Iran political tensions.
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Dakar -Irregular rains and rising temperatures have spurred on conflict in the region by causing food shortages and frustration
Whoever smelt it dealt it, right?
Iran's foreign ministry on Friday rejected accusations by Saudi Arabia that Tehran had ordered an attack on Saudi oil installations claimed by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militia.
When the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) concluded a three-day forum on “Peace and Development” on May 16, the primary focus was the daunting challenges threatening global security, including growing military interventions, spreading humanitarian emergencies, forced migration, increasing civil wars, extreme weather conditions triggered by climate change and widespread poverty and conflict-related hunger. For […] The post Do We Need a Global Convention of Common Principles for Building Peace? appeared first on Inter Press Service.
[East African] Kenya and Tanzania are among eight countries in the Western Indian Ocean region that will benefit from a study assessing the vulnerability of coral reefs ecosystem.
[Ghanaian Times] The National Lottery Authority (NLA) in collaboration with the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) Secretariat and some experts from abroad have trained 36 NABCO personnel on technology transfer and assembling procedures for the solar-powered E-Kiosks.
Polls favor the left-leaning Labor Party, crafting a counternarrative to the conservative rise in the West and elsewhere.
From now, house style guide recommends terms such as ‘climate crisis’ and ‘global heating’ The Guardian has updated its style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describe the environmental crises facing the world. Instead of “climate change” the preferred terms are “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown” and “global heating” is favoured over “global warming”, although the original terms are not banned. Continue reading...
Thailand and the Netherlands have signed a declaration of intent to enhance cooperation on sustainability and climate change.
Saudi-led coalition warplanes bombed Yemeni rebel targets including in the capital on Thursday following insurgent drone strikes on a key oil pipeline that Riyadh said were ordered by its arch-rival Tehran. The new bombardment came after the UN envoy, who has been spearheading efforts to end more than four years of conflict in the Arab … Continued The post Saudi-led warplanes pound Yemen rebels after pipeline attack appeared first on Egypt Independent.
From walking more to reducing waste, here’s what you can do to make a difference Revealed: air pollution may be damaging every organ and cell in the body Most air pollution is produced by the burning of fossil fuels and waste, and this is the focus of the World Health Organization’s global recommendations : Continue reading...
[Daily Maverick] Moving to what is termed a just transition is not an overnight event. It requires careful planning, implementation, oversight and high-level political guarantees. Thankfully, in South Africa, we can draw on some lessons about what has worked and failed in other countries which have been in a similar position.
The debate over whether to abandon air travel because of how it drives up emissions has become a key topic.
India's political parties promise free electricity to farmers and ambitious infrastructure projects.
The cost of pollution for businesses in Europe, already near an 11-year high, may rise further as regulators tighten the screws in the world's biggest carbon market.
It's not surprising that a new report says Louisiana may have to cede flood-prone communities to nature, shift the state economy away from fishing and oil refining, and adapt to the inevitability of climate change.
On this week's Eco Africa, lighting up Uganda with solar power, seeing the real value in the shea trees of Burkina Faso and turning the bothersome water hyacinths of Benin into fertilizer.
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The International Energy Agency is the only one of the three major oil forecasting organizations that sees global inventories increasing in 2019. The latest outlooks from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries both show worldwide oil stockpiles falling this year, assuming that total OPEC output remains at April's level for the next eight months. The IEA sees a very small increase.
Yellow Cab of Columbus, a traditional taxi company in the Midwest, is making electric cars part of a larger transformation to take on the likes of Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc.
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The danger from climate change no longer outweighs the risks of nuclear accidents.
Democracies may do better at adapting to climate change.
It's time for Australia to seize the opportunities in climate action and renewable energy. It's time to kick this mob out and end the climate crap. The post It’s time to kick this mob out, and end this climate crap appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The Energy Ministry plans to make biodiesel B10 available at 340 petrol stations this year to increase consumption of crude palm oil in the country's transport sector.
The U.S. Coast Guard says a World War II-era shipwreck off Long Island is leaking oil through two pinpoint leaks. It is conducting an assessment of the remaining oil aboard the British tanker Coimbra, which was sank by a Nazi U-boat in 1942. (May 17)
BP will face pressure at a meeting next week to set tougher targets to combat climate change, the latest signal from investors that they want the oil and gas industry to do more to clean up its act.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has said his government’s first priority is to repeal the province’s carbon tax, but what happens to programs that rely on that funding? There is concern in the solar industry.
Attacks on Saudi and UAE oil assets built to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, a strategically important waterway in the Gulf, have raised fears that alternative routes could be vulnerable. Four ships including two Saudi oil tankers were damaged in mysterious sabotage attacks Sunday off Fujairah, an emirate located at the crucial entrance to the Gulf. Iran has repeatedly threatened to prevent shipping in Hormuz in case of a military confrontation with the United States, which has imposed sanctions on Tehran in recent months.
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: During Hurricane Harvey, many Houston residents found out the hard way that their homes and businesses were within the flood plains of reservoirs built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Some property owners blame the Corps for the damage to their buildings, and they want compensation. The trial plays out this week. Houston Public Media's Andrew Schneider has more on the legal strategy. ANDREW SCHNEIDER, BYLINE: The Addicks and Barker dams have stood to the west of downtown Houston for more than 70 years. Most of the time, the land behind them looks like parks. That attracted development and new residents as the city expanded. The problem was that land was actually two dry reservoirs designed to flood in order to protect downtown Houston. During Harvey, the reservoirs...
As coal gets phased out of Saskatchewan's power-generating fleet, other options will need to be considered, including small modular nuclear reactors.
The Taylor Energy oil spill began after Hurricane Ivan triggered an underwater mudslide and caused the company's oil platform to topple and sink.
As Michael churned toward the coast last October, forecasters feared the compact hurricane would blossom into a fierce storm far worse than their projections. But what they weren't able to predict were Michael's three rapid explosions of power that ultimately made it the first Cat 5 hurricane to make landfall since 1992's lethal Hurricane Andrew and one of only four to ever hit the U.S. While track forecasts have vastly improved, predicting intensity remains a challenge. "The rapid intensification is such a tough forecast for us," National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham said this week during the state's annual hurricane conference. "There's some things we don't know." Fast-changing storms also pose the biggest threat for catching residents off-guard. Just three days before landfall, Graham...
Environment Hear the world burn. Lucy Jones thinks we’re not hearing the message about climate change well enough—so she set it to music.
As if the specter of droughts, floods, and dwindling resources wasn't scary enough, a new book details how the a rapidly changing climate is putting Los Angeles at risk of a deadly plague outbreak.
Dozens of gray whales have been found dead along the U.S. West Coast in recent weeks and some scientists believe the cause lies far to the north, in the heated-up Arctic waters off Alaska.
Some coral reefs might be strong enough to survive climate change -- but will these be enough?
Up to 1,000 gallons of oil per day are being removed from the site of the Taylor Energy spill, says the owner of company that installed a containment system.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo just nixed a pipeline that would bring critical supplies of natural gas to the city and Long Island via New York Bay — not that he’s taking ownership of the veto. No, the gov claims he had no part in the Department of Environmental Conservation decision late Wednesday to reject the Northeast...
Bill de Blasio is the 24th 2020 Democrat. Meet the New York mayor who feuds with Democrats, campaigns against climate change from his SUV but can almost look Big Bird in the eye.
Scott Pruitt, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and his staff spent roughly $124,000 in excessive travel costs during a ten-month period, according to a new report from EPA's internal watchdog. Pruitt, who resigned from EPA almost a year ago amidst a litany of ethics allegations, and his personal security detail flew in first or business class "without sufficient justification and, initially without appropriate approval authority," the report says . The EPA's Office of the Inspector General recommended that the agency consider recovering the estimated $123,942 in excessive costs. In a statement, the EPA says it believes that it complied with federal travel regulations, "making cost recovery inappropriate." The audit reviewed 40 trips, including six canceled ones, that...
Scientists analyzing 800 million measurements collected by an array of satellites since 1992 have found the Pine Island and Thwaite’s Glaciers are now losing ice at a rate five times faster than in past.
National Hurricane Center director Ken Graham says a warmer atmosphere could lead to more frequent, heavy storms in a preview of the official hurricane outlook forecast to be released at the end of the month. (May 17)
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Almost 18 years after setting air pollutant standards for fiberglass and aluminum boat builders, EPA isn't planning to undertake major changes after a legally required review.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the former majority whip who's potentially in line to be the next Senate GOP leader, said he's working on a bill to address carbon dioxide emissions.
by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News Life in Kotzebue came to a standstill last fall when a 10-year-old girl vanished from a playground in the center of this northwest arctic town. After searchers found her body hidden in the tundra, police charged a local man with kidnapping, sexual abuse and murder. As one of the reporters covering the case, I tried to learn as much as possible about the 42-year-old suspect. He was a lifelong Alaskan and was not a registered sex offender. Yet two family members soon told me he had raped them decades earlier when they were girls, beginning a pattern of abuse. (He has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the Kotzebue homicide and has not responded to his relatives’ claims.) ...
Oil futures were up more than 1% on Thursday as tensions in the Middle East grew, with a Saudi-led coalition launching air strikes in retaliation for recent attacks on its crude infrastructure.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Yemen rebel drone strike this week on a critical Saudi oil pipeline shows that the otherwise-peaceful sandy reaches of the Arabian Peninsula now are at risk of similar assault, including an under-construction nuclear power plant and Dubai International Airport, among the world's busiest.
Comedian Ava Martinez, from Rancho Santa Margarita, California, got into character by donning Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's signature red lipstick and glasses for the video.
Right-wing populists have been gaining support throughout Europe and many of them deny the dangers of climate change. What does that mean for the future of climate policy on the continent?
East Timor, the tiny nation between Australia and Indonesia, has enrolled China’s help to push forward a natural gas export project that has been abandoned by global oil majors as too challenging.The nation recently signed an engineering and construction agreement with a state-backed Chinese firm and is targeting a final investment decision on the liquefied natural gas export facility, known as TLNG, as soon as late next year, Timor GAP, the government-owned energy company, said on Wednesday…
A state-aligned Saudi newspaper on Thursday called for the US to launch “surgical” strikes on Iran, which Riyadh is blaming for a drone attack by Yemeni rebels. In an editorial published in English, the Arab News argued that after incidents this week against Saudi energy targets, including a key oil pipeline that was knocked out,...
PM Morrison hopes voters ignore Coalition infighting, while Labor’s Shorten has become tabloid target Australia’s two major parties are neck-and-neck as voters prepare to go to the polls on Saturday, after a bruising election campaign that has turned personal, prompted the issue of climate change to come to the fore, and led to the campaigning of the Murdoch press almost backfiring. Up for re-election is the incumbent centre-right Coalition government, led by the prime minister, Scott Morrison, leader of the Liberal party. The Coalition is bitterly divided over climate change and suffering after years of factional infighting. It has held power since 2013 but has been behind the opposition Labor party in the polls since mid-2016. Continue reading...
A Yemen rebel drone strike this week on a critical Saudi oil pipeline shows that the otherwise-peaceful sandy reaches of the Arabian Peninsula now are at risk of similar assault, including an under-construction nuclear power plant.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler today discussed water infrastructure funding and other challenges facing the agency during a freewheeling conversation at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
The Bureau of Land Management wants to remove conservation measures covering tens of thousands of acres of sensitive wildlife habitat in north-central Montana, according to a new proposal.
The EPA inspector general has rebuked the agency's handling of former Administrator Scott Pruitt's costly travel. In a report released today, the IG estimated the agency spent $123,942 in "excessive costs" for Pruitt and his personal security detail's first- and business-class flights.
With air pollution a global concern, satellites provide vital information about air quality to help understand how to keep our planet breathable
A horde of climate change advocates blocked traffic on Madison Avenue in Midtown Thursday morning by setting up a mock, 24-foot oil rig, with a protester clad in mountain climbing gear perched on top. “It’s supposed to represent an oil derrick,” Monica Hunken, a member of Rain Forest Action Network and Extinction Rebellion, told The...
Air pollution is a global environmental health problem, especially for those living in urban areas. Not only does it negatively impact our ecosystems, it considerably affects our health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 8 million premature deaths per year are linked to air pollution, more than double of previous estimates.
Increasingly complex, growing and related risks, from global warming to pollution and epidemics, threaten human survival if left to escalate, the United Nations warned on ...
When the oceans lose oxygen, squids lose their vision.
[L'Express] Global experts, thinkers, practitioners, journalists, politicians and innovators are currently in Geneva to discuss the state of disaster risk across the globe. Many countries, especially those like Mauritius and Mozambique which are exposed to cyclones and floods, have still a long way to go to meet the Sendai Framework (2015-2030). Over and above translating Climate Change challenges into concrete budgetary terms, this international agreement/commitment sets four specific priorities for action:
Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen Thursday killed at least six people and injured dozens, an operation the Saudi government said is retaliation for terror attacks this week on oil infrastructure.
Thousands of tons of coal ash from Puerto Rico are headed for a new home: a Florida county with one of the fastest-growing Puerto Rican populations in the U.S.
THE GOVERNMENT'S new Tourism Strategy released today says the sector must "play its role" in dealing with climate change.
Almost a quarter of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is now unstable, according to a new study.
Israel has received bids from three groups interested in building and operating a desalination plant that will supply more than a fifth of the country's household water and help battle shortages that could arise from climate change.
[Nation] There is barely a corner of human life that will not be affected by climate change, and some of its impacts are already being felt. Consider this, 821 million people are now hungry and over 150 million children stunted, putting the hunger eradication goal, SDG 2, at risk.
Equinor has still not identified the source of an oil spill at its Statfjord field in the North Sea, and the loading of crude onto tankers remains shut, the Norwegian company told Reuters on Thursday.
Iran’s foreign minister has hit out at “unacceptable” sanctions imposed by the US as an international deal to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions continues to unravel amid a spike in tensions.Mohammad Zarif defended Iran’s right to respond to the US pullout from the nuclear deal last year.“We believe that escalation by the United States is unacceptable and uncalled for. We have exercised maximum restraints,” he said during a visit to Tokyo. In other comments carried on the semi-official Mehr news agency, Mr Zarif was quoted as saying: “A multilateral deal cannot be treated unilaterally.”The spat over the nuclear deal has been heightened by a number of events this week, including a drone attack on a Saudi Arabian oil pipeline claimed by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, allegations of acts of sabotage...
New research shows affected areas are losing ice five times faster than in the 1990s, with more than 100m of thickness gone in some places Ice losses are rapidly spreading deep into the interior of the Antarctic, new analysis of satellite data shows. The warming of the Southern Ocean is resulting in glaciers sliding into the sea increasingly rapidly, with ice now being lost five times faster than in the 1990s. The West Antarctic ice sheet was stable in 1992 but up to a quarter of its expanse is now thinning. More than 100 metres of ice thickness has been lost in the worst-hit places. Continue reading...
Saudi Arabia's deputy defense minister on Thursday accused Iran of ordering an attack on Saudi oil pumping stations that Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militia has claimed responsibility for.
Saudi-led coalition warplanes bombed Yemeni rebel targets including in the capital on Thursday following insurgent drone strikes on a key oil pipeline that Riyadh said were ordered by its arch-rival Tehran. The Saudi deputy defence minister warned that Tuesday's attack by Yemeni rebels on a major pipeline in the kingdom was "tightening the noose" around peace efforts. The Saudi-led coalition, which has been battling the Huthi rebels since March 2015, confirmed that its warplanes were carrying out multiple strikes across rebel-held territory.
Cities, which are home to more than half the world's population, are stepping up efforts to slash pollution, often wresting the fight against climate change away from national governments.
Here's another reason climate change is bad for humanity, and the United States in particular — it has the potential to increase the cost of Medicaid and Medicare.
A former EPA official is urging Congress to roll back corporate average fuel economy standards.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt offered Democrats a viral moment yesterday when he said he doesn't lose sleep over climate change.
Another milestone soared by last weekend when scientists announced that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels hit 415 parts per million for the first time. Tracking CO2 levels lacks the flash of setting new records on high temperatures, but it might tell us more.
First, states across the U.S. ordered utilities to clean up ponds full of toxic coal waste.
State environmental regulators yesterday denied a water quality permit for a 24-mile underwater pipeline from New Jersey to Queens that backers say is crucial for meeting rising demand for natural gas in New York City and Long Island.
EPA says state water regulators and the oil and gas industry generally support relaxing the rules on oil-field wastewater so it can be reused instead of discarded.
States across the country are moving to assert more control over their energy mixes as the Trump administration rolls back regulations and concerns about climate change take center stage.
The Green New Deal is not enough; we need to set a specific target for carbon dioxide levels here on Earth.
Media criticism has actually kickstarted my drive to get commuters on to two wheels Over the last few weeks, our schoolchildren have staged climate change strikes , while Extinction Rebellion locked down central London. Nearby, MPs (including myself) listened to Greta Thunberg and held debates on climate change. So, at a time when most of the country is focused on the threats to our environment, the challenges we face in addressing them and the need for not just behavioural change but a transformation of our economy, what is more newsworthy to Fleet Street? Continue reading...
Many of the icons who attended this year's Mercedes-Benz fashion week supported climate change and Penny Wong was dubbed the most stylish politician.
After filming himself as he clambered out with a pickax, John All has resumed his Himalayan mission One spring morning in 2014, before breakfast or even coffee, John All , 49, a Mount Everest climber and then a professor at Western Kentucky University, was walking near his tent on a remote Himalayan peak in Nepal called Himlung when he broke through a thin layer of snow and clattered 70ft down a crevasse. He would have kept falling, almost certainly to his death, were it not for a small ice shelf spanning the fissure, upon which he miraculously, if painfully, landed. Stunned and injured – it turned out he’d broken 15 bones, dislocated his shoulder, and was bleeding internally – All gathered himself in the icy crypt and then, like any good scientist, began to document the ordeal. He thought...
Remark by Tuilaepa Sailele interpreted as a hope for a change of government given stark differences between major parties on climate Samoa’s prime minister appears to have called for Pacific leaders to “cross their fingers” for a change of government in Australia so more action on climate change will be taken. Tuilaepa Sailele’s comment, reported by the ABC , came during a press conference after a summit between Pacific leaders and UN secretary general Antonio Guterres in Fiji, who is visiting the Pacific for the first time since taking on the role. Continue reading...
Oil prices rose on Thursday for the third day in a row as fears of supply disruptions amid heightened tensions in the Middle East overshadowed swelling U.S. crude inventories.
Scott Morrison says ‘national security is always the centre of character checks’ when asked how two Rwandans charged with murder were brought in under US swap. Meanwhile, Australian unemployment climbs to 5.2%. All the day’s events, live 4.50am BST Zali Steggall , the independent taking on Tony Abbott in the Sydney seat of Warringah, has called for an increase in the rate of Newstart. Steggall is considered a chance of knocking off the former prime minister despite his 11% and has been campaigning most strongly on the issue of climate change. While she has taken more conservative positions on other economic issues, such as vowing to oppose Labor’s policy on franking credits, Steggall told Guardian Australia the current unemployment benefit was inadequate. “I totally agree we...
Trump's disregard for U.S. intelligence is increasingly risky as threats mount, from Iran and North Korea to climate change and Russian intervention.
Oil prices pushed higher on Thursday for a third day in a row, as fears of supply disruptions amid heightened tensions in the Middle East overshadowed an unexpected rise in U.S. inventories.
An analysis of words used in programmes found ‘dogs’, ‘sex’ and ‘Brexit’ used thousands of times more than those related to environmental issues.
Oil prices rose on Thursday for a third straight session, as the risk of conflict in the Middle East stoked fears of supply disruptions, negating an unexpected rise in U.S. inventories.
Other than smashing the remarkable feat of staging an ice gig in the bitter -12C Norwegian chill, the group, who teamed up with Greenpeace, also aimed to send a powerful ecological warning.
Australian researchers say governments must step up and protect critical habitats to give wildlife a chance More than 20 native animals would disappear from the Great Dividing Range before the end of the century if global emissions continue at business as usual rates, according to new analysis by Australian researchers. The University of Queensland and Australian Conservation Foundation study, published this week in Global Ecology and Conservation, examines native fauna in a part of the country that is home to three-quarters of the population and much of Australia’s biodiversity. Continue reading...
Climate change is an increasingly influential item for voters at the ballot box Plateau Mont Royal borough Luc Ferrandez resigns on not
Oil prices edged up on Thursday to extend gains into a third straight session, as tensions in the Middle East stoked fears of potential disruptions to supply.
Parks Canada says above-normal snowpack in some areas and significant precipitation system-wide have resulted in "extreme" high water levels and flows.
Jeremy Corbyn to make pledge as part of party’s ‘green industrial revolution’ Labour have announced plans to fit solar panels to 1.75m homes lived in by socially housed or low-income households as part of its promised “green industrial revolution” to try to combat climate change and boost jobs. The programme is due to be announced by Jeremy Corbyn and the shadow business secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey, at an event in Yorkshire on Thursday. Continue reading...
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