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Report: Fighting climate change could boost the global economy by $26 trillion
This article discusses how fighting climate change could boost the global economy by $26 trillion. Concerted efforts to stop climate change by 2030 would also create 65 million new jobs and–this part is important–stop 700,000 premature deaths.
Over the next 10 to 15 years, the world will invest $90 trillion […]
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Could flooding and sea level rise cost Hampton Roads a military base?
This article discusses the potential for the military to move a naval base due to sea level rise and flooding. The loss of Virginia jobs would be devastating.
Sea level rise could put some of the region’s bases in jeopardy of closing, which would have a serious impact on the […]
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Oil Industry Plans to Keep Workers Safe—by Firing Them and Having Robots Do Their Jobs
This article discusses how the fossil fuel industry plans to ensure worker safety – by replacing workers with robots.
The oil and gas industry is finally acknowledging how dangerous employment can be for its workers after years of touting the sector as a beacon of worker safety. This sudden honesty about […]
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Fracking Execs Plan Profits by Using Automation to Shrink Workforce
This article discusses how fracking companies are cutting jobs in favor of using machines.
At a recent industry conference, Terry Spencer, head of natural gas infrastructure company ONEOK, made clear the direction the fracking industry was headed: “One of these days one of these big ol’ fracs will be operated with nobody there.”
Translation: Computers and […]
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Precarious Life of Texas Farmworkers Becomes Riskier with Global Warming
This article discusses the impact on farm workers from warming climate. Increasing heat, drought and mosquito-borne diseases make this work more dangerous.
As climate change intensifies heat waves and drought and helps spread diseases carried by mosquitoes, the life of a farmworker in this fertile part of Texas is getting harder […]
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Carbon Markets Pay Off for These States as New Businesses, Jobs Spring Up
This article discusses the impact RGGI is having on member states.
A 3-year review found $1.4 billion in economic benefits across the 9 RGGI states, no harm to electric grid reliability, and long-term benefits for residents.
Nine years after its launch, the nation’s first mandatory carbon-trading program is still […]
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Aging Wind Farms Are Repowering with Longer Blades, More Efficient Turbines
This article discusses how aging wind farms are retooling older turbines. Because of that, jobs and a thriving industry are growing up around the ‘repowering’ of existing wind farms, as technology upgrades increase their renewable energy production.
Old wind farms that have towered over the same fields […]
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Study: Trump’s Policies Cost 10,000 solar jobs.
A study conducted by the Solar Foundation, a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for the solar industry, shows that Trump’s policies are job-killers. The solar industry employs over 250,000 workers, more than fossil fuel industries like coal and natural gas combined. Thanks to Trump’solar panel tariff, the solar industry […]
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Westmoreland sets no-fracking strategy
I applaud the Board of Supervisors (BOS) of Westmoreland County for taking an extremely sound, well-thought-out position. The two step approach should be the model that every County in the Taylorsville Basin follows. And I applaud the FLS Editorial Staff for supporting this decision, stating “We would urge the […]
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Frac sand boom hits the Permian Basin
PERMIAN BASIN — Frac sand mining is the latest boom to hit the Permian Basin and it’s an operation that started about six months ago. “Creates a tremendous number of new jobs, high paying jobs, the plants are longterm,” Monahans Mayor David Cutbirth said.
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