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Solar company partners with Community Foundation to honor Spotsylvania donation pledge
This article discusses SPower’s partnering with with Community Foundation to honor Spotsylvania donation pledge.
The company building a 500-megawatt solar facility in western Spotsylvania partnered with a local nonprofit foundation to distribute $25 million throughout the county.
The fund is something the chief executive officer of Utah-based Sustainable Power Group pledged […]
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Yale Climate Connections August 16, 2019
This week’s articles include:
‘What’s the best kind of car for the climate?’
What it means to be human in an age of climate change
Storytelling is fueling climate conversations at Appalachian State University
Architectural history offers clues […]
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What does climate change have to do with socialism?
This article discusses climate change and socialism. For many climate skeptics, climate change has little to do with science. One of the most vocal strains of opposition to mainstream climate science appears to be rooted in fears of socialism.
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MORE THAN 160 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS WERE KILLED IN 2018, AND MANY OTHERS LABELED TERRORISTS AND CRIMINALS
This The Intercept article discusses how activists fighting global warming are being targeted and killed.
VICTORIA TAULI-CORPUZ, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, was disturbed to learn that her name had been included on a list of “terrorists” allegedly affiliated with the Communist Party of the […]
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Mountain Valley Pipeline – 7 articles
This article discusses the coating on the exposed pipes is safe, Mountain Valley tells regulators. A protective coating applied to the massive pipeline under construction in Virginia and West Virginia poses no known harms, developers of the Mountain Valley Pipeline have told federal regulators. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission […]
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The new social movement on climate change
This Axios article discusses the new social movement on climate change. Over the last nine months, calls to address climate change have become a powerful new social movement.
Driving the news: Climate change has traditionally not spawned intense, organized and continued protest. That’s been gradually changing, and since November with […]
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Yale Climate connections 7-26-2019
This week’s articles include:
A small electric plane demonstrates promise, obstacles of climate-friendly air travel
New Koch-funded fossil exhibit at the Smithsonian is curiously quiet on fossil fuels
To save money, Pennsylvania farmer puts his pigs to work
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How These Neighbors Took On The Oil Company In Their Backyard And Won
This Huffington Post article discusses how some people have been successful fighting the O&G industry. About one-third of Los Angeles County residents live within a mile of a drilling rig. In this community, the oil drilling facility is just feet away.
Just three doors down from her home, oil rigs […]
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CLIMATE ACTIVISTS FROM EXTINCTION REBELLION GLUED THEMSELVES TO THE CAPITOL TO DISRUPT HOUSE VOTES
This The Intercept article discusses how activists are attempting to change Congress’s mind about climate change.
Members of the Washington, D.C., chapter of Extinction Rebellion superglued themselves to each other and to the passages connecting the Capitol to the Rayburn and Cannon office buildings, where House members have their offices. […]
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Reports: Dominion Energy’s new programs are really about limiting choices
This article, by Ivy Main of the Sierra Club, discusses Dominion Energy’s new programs.
An annual survey conducted by Yale and George Mason universities shows concern about climate change is surging. Seventy-three percent of Americans think climate change is happening, and 69% are at least somewhat worried about it, the highest […]
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