It is a start. As an island nation without much space to do shit like plant a million trees, though, Britain is kind of fucked without an international alliance.
It is a start. As an island nation without much space to do shit like plant a million trees, though, Britain is kind of fucked without an international alliance.
Some random book my son was reading this morning, kill me
you can tell him "this is wrong, but the teacher might think it's right, so answer as if it is."
gotta teach him to play the game anyway, might as well start early.
Not a school book fortunately
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...air-pollution/
The Trump administration on Monday rejected setting tougher standards on soot, the nation’s most widespread deadly air pollutant, saying the existing regulations remain sufficient even though some public health experts and environmental justice organizations had pleaded for stricter limits.
The Environmental Protection Agency retained the current thresholds for fine-particle pollution for another five years, despite mounting evidence linking air pollution to lethal outcomes in respiratory illnesses, including covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Documents obtained by The Washington Post show that the EPA has disregarded concerns raised by some administration officials that several of its air policy rollbacks would disproportionately affect minority and low-income communities.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...-transparency/
The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a rule to limit what research it can use to craft public health protections, a move opponents argue is aimed at crippling the agency’s ability to more aggressively regulate the nation’s air and water.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...e-polar-bears/
Trump administration officials auctioned off oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday, capping Republicans’ decades-long quest to drill in one of the nation’s most vast unspoiled wild places. The move marks one of the most significant environmental rollbacks the president has accomplished in his term.
But with lackluster oil prices and an increasing number of banks saying they would not finance Arctic energy projects, major oil companies did not try to buy the leases. That left the state agency, Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, as the main bidder. The agency put up all but two of the winning bids, which went to a couple of small energy firms.
The sale of 11 tracts on just over 550,000 acres netted $14.4 million, a tiny fraction of what Republicans initially predicted it would yield. Only two of the bids were competitive, so nearly all of the land sold for the minimum price of $25 an acre.
$25 a fucking acre!?
And this isn't even ownership of the land, just the oil and gas rights.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...ng-moratorium/
President Biden is poised to impose a moratorium on new federal oil and gas leasing Wednesday, according to three individuals briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the plan was still being finalized. The move will deliver on one of Biden’s boldest climate campaign pledges but will encounter stiff resistance from the fossil fuel industry.
The White House has prepared documents that would halt new oil and gas auctions on federal lands and waters as the new administration reviews the program, these individuals said. The moratorium would not affect existing leases, meaning drilling would continue on public land in the West as well as in the Gulf of Mexico.
The memo remains a draft subject to final approval, said one individual close to the White House who spoke on the condition of anonymity because it had not been formally announced. Administration officials had considered imposing a moratorium on new federal coal leasing as well, but one of the individuals briefed on the plan said officials were now leaning against that option.
ERCOT to raise Texas energy prices, blaming high demand from winter storm
https://twitter.com/KHOU/status/1361...065944064?s=19
Texas about to get that 4th nuclear reactor back online.
https://twitter.com/Beazy_Rampezy/st...800977414?s=19
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...en-wind-power/
The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.
The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.
I mean 30 gigawatts would still be less then 1% of the total grid no?
Er actually might be around 2%, if their "10 million American homes" unit of energy is consistent with other estimates I've seen.
Just tell us how much it will generate per year, not the GW rating, so annoying.