Russian operatives are laying the groundwork for what could be a stronger push to support candidates who oppose aiding Ukraine, or who call for pulling the United States back from NATO and other alliances, U.S. officials and independent researchers say....
Yes, it’s going to take doing things another way and with different justification.
NYC has an emissions-based rule which might stand up to legal scrutiny, since it doesn’t actually ban gas in new construction, but makes it very expensive to do.
Block by block is going to get it done by 2030, and allow decommissioning of parts of the distribution system to save money in the meantime. Faster and fairer than just tossing out a subsidy.
It’s not meant to be a demonstration of belief, it’s about a demonstration of subservience. Getting people to say something that everybody knows to be a lie, and do it in public, is a way of getting them to demonstrate that loyalty is more important than anything else.
Solar. We expect a record addition of utility-scale solar in 2024 if the scheduled 36.4 GW are added to the grid. This growth would almost double last year’s 18.4 GW increase, which was itself a record for annual utility-scale solar installation in the United States. As the effects of supply chain challenges and trade restrictions ease, solar continues to outpace capacity additions from other generating resources.
Wind. Operators report another 8.2 GW of wind capacity is scheduled to come on line in 2024. Following the record additions of more than 14.0 GW in both 2020 and 2021, wind capacity additions have slowed in the last two years.
Harvard Removes Binding of Human Skin From Book in Its Library (www.nytimes.com)
Jane Goodall Is More of a Dog Person, Actually (www.nytimes.com)
New York Takes Crucial Step Toward Making Congestion Pricing a Reality (www.nytimes.com)
‘Tone-deaf’ fossil gas growth in Europe is speeding climate crisis, say activists. | Just 2% of continent’s gas capacity has planned retirement date despite pledges to decarbonise, study shows (www.theguardian.com)
Russia Amps Up Online Campaign Against Ukraine Before U.S. Elections | Moscow has found better ways to conceal influence operations that spread arguments for isolationism, officials and experts say. (www.nytimes.com)
Russian operatives are laying the groundwork for what could be a stronger push to support candidates who oppose aiding Ukraine, or who call for pulling the United States back from NATO and other alliances, U.S. officials and independent researchers say....
‘Everybody has a breaking point’: how the climate crisis affects our brains (www.theguardian.com)
U.S. Approves $1.5 Billion Loan to Restart Michigan Nuclear Plant (www.nytimes.com)
Berkeley Will Repeal Its Landmark Ban on Natural Gas in New Homes [they lost a challenge in court] (www.nytimes.com)
A Great Lakes Pipeline Tangles Politics in Two Battleground States (www.nytimes.com)
U.S. clamps down on oil and gas firms releasing potent greenhouse gas (wapo.st)
A new rule restricts releases of methane from companies that have leases to extract fossil fuels from federal lands...
Cities Can Expect Mass Species Turnover in a Warming World (www.bloomberg.com)
The paper is here
New England to be Coal-Free by 2028, Marking Significant Victory for Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign (www.sierraclub.org)
Alabama Civil Rights Groups Scramble to Fight Back Against New Voting Law (boltsmag.org)
The Climate Charts Are Not Okay (www.splinter.com)
Climate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clocks (wapo.st)
Was the 2020 election stolen? Job interviews at RNC take an unusual turn. (wapo.st)
Prospective hires say agreeing with Trump’s false election claim appears to be a new litmus test for being hired by the party
US Treasury Secretary Yellen to Warn China Against Flood of Cheap Green Energy Exports (www.nytimes.com)