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    • The Daily Climate, April 21, 2021

      Posted by Bill on April 21, 2021
      Air Pollution, Alternative Energy, Climate Crisis, Coal and Coal Ash, Financial Implications, Food Production, GHGs, including methane, Health, Laws Regulations

      Articles include: cannabis; melting ice and bowhead whales; emissions increasing as pandemic wanes; economic effects of climate change; scripture to mobilize faithful; cities moving from gas to electricity; more renewable energy; investment firms and climate change; demand for coal rising; microbes that eat methane; food systems produce 1/3rd of […]


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    • The Daily Climate, April 20, 2021

      Posted by Bill on April 21, 2021
      Alternative Energy, Climate Crisis, Coal and Coal Ash, Denialism, Financial Implications, Food Production, International, Laws Regulations, US Government Agencies

      Articles include: Exxon & carbon capture; offshore wind; glaciers melting in the Andes; coal financing; cities hardest hit by climate change; Biden trying to reinstate US climate change leadership; shrinking sea meadows and GHGs; Canadian budget; Euro lawsuits derail clean energy; DOI heads towards clean energy; climate change and […]


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    • Above the Fold – Week’s Best & Covid

      Posted by Bill on April 17, 2021
      Chemicals Pesticides Fertilizers, Coal and Coal Ash, Food Production, Health, International, Nuclear, Toxic Waste, Water, Websites

      Environmental Health News puts out weekend ‘summary’ emails, in addition to their daily emails.

      EHN Week’s Best: April 16, 2021: forever chemicals on paper straws; Piney Point pollution; jails and environmental justice; DDT; PFAS; drought’s impact on farming water;  rechargeable batteries – real cost; Mexico and coal; heavy metals […]


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    • The Daily Climate, April 16, 2021

      Posted by Bill on April 16, 2021
      Alternative Energy, Climate Crisis, Coal and Coal Ash, Denialism, Financial Implications, GHGs, including methane, International, Laws Regulations, Studies Reports Tools

      Articles include: Canadian methane emissions; Hawaiian coral reefs; phase-out of non-EVs; better highways; funding focus changes on infrastructure; Japan & hydrogen; South Korea funding coal plants; wildfires and Alaska; Utilities and clean energy standards; clean hydrogen energy; US and China – foes; 3% of ecosystems remain intact –
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    • The Daily Climate, April 14, 2021

      Posted by Bill on April 16, 2021
      Alternative Energy, Climate Crisis, Coal and Coal Ash, GHGs, including methane, International, Laws Regulations, Toxic Waste, Water

      Articles include: clean energy focus; blue carbon credits; John Kerry off to China; Glacier in Alaska is moving; Mexico & coal; Cost of rechargeable batteries; Brazil & Indigenous land rights; Endangered American rivers; companies call on Biden to reduce GHGs.


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    • The Daily Climate, April 7, 2021

      Posted by Bill on April 16, 2021
      Activists, Alternative Energy, Climate Crisis, Coal and Coal Ash, Denialism, GHGs, including methane, International, Sea Level Rise

      Articles include: Gretta Thunberg; racism; green goals and the power grid; old batteries & electric vehicles; outdated rainfall data; Canadian coal mine; sea meadows; Chevron climate goals; Antarctic ice shelves collapse; Florida & sea level rise.


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    • The Daily Climate, April 6, 2021

      Posted by Bill on April 15, 2021
      Climate Crisis, Coal and Coal Ash, Denialism, Financial Implications, Food Production, Health

      Articles include: Orphan oil wells & climate change; lightning, wildfires, and the Arctic; farmland restoration; wage gap; alternatives for coal country; carbon flooding; O&G jobs disappearing; Texas winter energy disaster; diseases in Alaska; drought in Michigan and Arizona; fossil fuel subsidies.


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    • This century-old technology could be the key to unlocking America’s renewable energy future.

      Posted by Bill on April 15, 2021
      Alternative Energy, Coal and Coal Ash, Nuclear

      Popular Science: This century-old technology could be the key to unlocking America’s renewable energy future. Pumped storage hydro once propped up coal and nuclear power. Now it’s essential for a clean, growing grid.

      Like other parts of the US rushing to transition away from fossil fuels, the Pacific Northwest’s […]


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    • King George coal plant to be converted to solar and storage

      Posted by Bill on April 15, 2021
      Alternative Energy, Climate Crisis, Coal and Coal Ash

      Virginia Mercury: King George coal plant to be converted to solar and storage.

      The owner of a former coal plant in King George County intends to redevelop the site as a solar and energy storage facility in another move by Virginia’s power sector away from fossil fuels to renewables.

      J-POWER USA, a […]


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    • Renewables plus batteries offer Australia the same energy security as coal, research finds

      Posted by Bill on April 5, 2021
      Alternative Energy, Climate Crisis, Coal and Coal Ash

      The Guardian: Renewables plus batteries offer Australia the same energy security as coal, research finds. Australia Institute calls for rule change to allow renewables to replace fossil fuels in underpinning grid reliability. [No link provided.]

      Renewable energy and batteries can secure Australia’s electricity grid as effectively as coal and […]


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