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The Daily Climate, April 28, 2021
Articles include: lumber shortage; disabilities and natural disasters; California wildfire season; Study: cut methane emissions quickly; flooding in Michigan; climate vote in Senate; Study: poor communities affected by climate change; low carbon fuel standard; money to modernize grid; Fukushima; Ford making electric vehicles; Study: sea level […]
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Red Sea coral reefs ‘under threat’ – 2 articles
France24: Red Sea coral reefs ‘under threat’ from Israel-UAE oil deal. Israeli environmentalists are warning that a UAE-Israeli oil pipeline deal threatens unique Red Sea coral reefs and could lead to “the next ecological disaster”. The agreement to bring Emirati crude oil by tanker to a pipeline in the Red Sea port […]
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Supreme Court to Review Refinery Waivers From Biofuel Quotas
Bloomberg discusses Supreme Court to Review Refinery Waivers From Biofuel Quotas.
Appeal to be heard in case limiting biofuel-blending waivers
Move is a blow to ethanol producers that challenged exemptions
The Supreme Court will review the ability of oil refineries to win exemptions from federal biofuel-blending quotas, a blow to producers of ethanol […]
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Climate Stories that flew under the radar in 2020
DeSmogBlog discusses These Are Some Climate Stories That Flew Under the Radar in 2020: disasters, world-wide fires, plummeting fossil fuel prices, cheap renewable energy, exposing risk and denialism, and activism.
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UN Report: Despite Falling Energy Demand, Governments Set on Increasing Fossil Fuel Production
Inside Climate News discusses UN Report: Despite Falling Energy Demand, Governments Set on Increasing Fossil Fuel Production. Top countries are projected to produce twice the limit on oil, gas and coal required to meet Paris climate agreement goals.
The coronavirus pandemic has sent global energy demand plummeting, and led many […]
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What could a good green recovery plan actually look like?
The Guardian discusses What could a good green recovery plan actually look like? What do governments across the world need to do to shift economies away from fossil fuels?
What does a green recovery look like? That is the question governments around the world are considering as they decide […]
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Report: Oil and gas leads New Mexico in greenhouse gas emissions, renewable sector growing
Carlesbad Current Argus discusses a report on Oil and gas leads New Mexico in greenhouse gas emissions, renewable sector growing. [No report link is provided.]
State efforts to reduce the impact of climate change in New Mexico took the form of three major initiatives: cutting emissions from oil and […]
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Moscow pushes for more Arctic drilling
The Barents Observer discusses how Moscow pushes for more Arctic drilling. Prime Minister Mishustin wants to tap into vast oil and gas resources on the Arctic shelf and commissions his cabinet ministers to make a plan for big drilling.
While governments and energy companies in Europe rapidly scale down investment in […]
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Report: Alternative Energy
Lazard issues 2020 report on the cost of wind and solar compared to new and existing fossil and nuclear. The report is titled: Levelized Cost of Energy and Levelized Cost of Storage – 2020.
Rethinkx discusses the cheapest way to transition to clean energy – build 4x as much generation as […]
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Report: Dramatic increase in fuel consumption in Arctic shipping
Radio Canada discusses a Report highlights dramatic increase in fuel consumption in Arctic shipping.
Fuel consumption by ships plying Arctic waters grew by 82 per cent in recent years, according to a new report by the Arctic Council’s Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) Working Group.