Human societies may be ill-prepared for climate change in part because they’re not preparing for the convergence of multiple disasters, experts said this week. And 2020 was a dress rehearsal.
“When you look at level of preparedness, people are…
2021
The Trump Administration’s repeated failure to overturn environmental regulations— even in front of Trump-appointed judges—proves their viability as a tool to fight climate change, White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy said…
The Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office “as of today, is back in business,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced this morning.
The new head of the office, which offers loans to energy ventures deemed too risky to attract…
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm may have to do some of the work herself that normally would fall to staff, according to former Secretary Steven Chu, during what are sure to be slow first days in office.
Granholm was nominated Dec. 17 but not…
The United States continues to struggle with legacy military nuclear waste, former Energy Secretary Steven Chu said, because the contractors making billions from it have opposed a better solution.
“If you had a small R&D program that could find a…
The United States government should build a 50-megawatt fusion power plant to demonstrate the technology, according to the authors of a report released today by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
Now is the time, the…
Richard Sandor is credited with inventing the market for financial futures, pioneering insurance derivatives, setting the benchmark for American interest rates, but his contribution to the public good, he said Thursday, is carbon trading.
The…
Updated Jan. 10, 5:30 p.m. EST with Prince Charles release of the “Terra Carta”
The world’s most progressive governments have committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050, but two of the world’s most prominent activists insist…
NET Power’s prototype zero-emission natural-gas power plant works, the company’s CEO said today, announcing that construction will begin on the first four operating plants.
“In 2018 we were successful, and in 2018 we also showed that the whole cycle…
Millions of lives could be saved by the healthy effects of actions to mitigate climate change, and vice versa, according to a knighted expert on environmental health.
“Many of the strategies to decarbonize the economy can also bring near-term…
