Echoes of 2008 energy discussion in 2016 VP debate: Looking above shoulders...
Now Governor Jay Inslee served as a surrogate, on energy issues, for then Senator Barack Obama during the 2008 election. In that role, Inslee provided one of the least-heralded (in my mind) but most...
View ArticleUncertainty: one nail in #coal’s coffin
Mark Sumner, someone who made his career in the coal mining industry, has penned (keystroked?) a thoughtful “Open letter to America’s Coal Miners & America“. This very respectful missive lays out...
View ArticleReally, really, REALLY great news (#solar #wind, #pv #WarOnCoal in PRC, …)
This guest post from Martin Smith provides a taste (and, truly, just a taste) of the things happening around the world, related to clean energy and reducing fossil foolish dependences. If Team Trump...
View ArticleFor well over a century: #climate in #PopularMechanics
Popular Mechanics is an American institution, a window on “how your world works” for 115 years. Amid its myriad pieces fascinating to tech geeks of all colors and strains (including Energy COOL-loving...
View ArticleUK and US both going back to 19th century? UK to past pollution levels, US to...
A rather stunning thing passed by earlier this year: the United Kingdom’s 2016 emissions were back to 19th century levels. The key reason: a massive (52 percent) decline in coal use. the most dramatic...
View Article(R)Evolution, not war
Human society has faced major shifts, periods of significant change, ranging from the printing press to the industrial revolution to the information age to the massively expansive set of changes in the...
View ArticleAlso in from CPAC: Fascists, NRA, Trump-istas … and coal enthusiasts
The CPAC meeting has become a gathering of the worst of American and, sigh, global society. Whether white supremacists, gun lunatics, or science deniers, this is a ground central for those enamored...
View ArticleBP’s “Stair Step” approach to coal and renewables in the electricity sector?
BP’s chief economist, Spencer Dale, is perhaps one of those for who the old EF Hutton ad applies: when Spencer Dale speaks, people should listen. Thoughtful, substantive, and often incisive about what...
View ArticleRE less than C a growing reality …
A decade ago, Google came out with its RE<C initiative. That formula: Renewable Energy less than Coal In short, an announced plan to invest to spark innovation and deployment of clean energy systems...
View Article#Coal’s Trouble in #Paradise (is it @RealDonaldTrump Pay to Play in action?
John Prine likely gave Paradise, Kentucky, its greatest fame. And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late...
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