by Kenda Hanuman | Jan 6, 2016 | Climate Change, Pipelines
The natural gas leak from a storage facility in the hills above Los Angeles is shaping up as a major ecological disaster as it vents large amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Source: New infrared video reveals growing environmental disaster in L.A. gas leak...
by Bob Day | Jan 6, 2016 | Climate Change
Stacks and burn-off from the ExxonMobil refinery are seen at dusk last year in St. Bernard Parish, La. (Gerald Herbert/Associated Press) Fossil fuel companies distorted our understanding of climate change. They should be held responsible. Source: America has been...
by Bob Day | Dec 21, 2015 | Climate Change, Politics of energy, Renewables
Governor Terry McAuliffe announces that the Commonwealth’s agencies will increase the use of renewable energy to power the state’s operations. Source: McAuliffe Announces Plan to Stimulate Growth of Renewable Energ – NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports...
by Bob Day | Dec 15, 2015 | Climate Change, Politics of energy
Friends say Kathryn Sullivan, the embattled head of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, is determined to keep politics out of science Source: She’s braved rough seas and space walks. Can she weather climate change skeptics? – The...
by Bob Day | Dec 9, 2015 | Climate Change, Renewables, Solar, Sustainability
Achieving 100 percent renewable energy is becoming “the new normal” in the fight to solve climate change. At the Climate Summit for Local Leaders at COP21 Source: Leonardo DiCaprio: Ready for 100%
by Bob Day | Dec 8, 2015 | Climate Change, FERC communications, PEIS
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