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Big Bank Tar Sands Financing More than Doubled in 2017

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

The world’s biggest banks continue to hasten the coming of extreme climate change by raising financing “extreme fossil fuels” exploration, production, distribution and consumption.

FERC Charts Open, Unbiased Course to Enhance Energy System Resilience

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Closing a DOE proposed new rulemaking and opening a new docket, FERC launched a more open, holistic and unbiased course aimed at enhancing the resiliency of U.S. power and energy systems.

Protestors at the U.S. COP23 side event promoting clean coal

U.S. Delegation Offers Up Clean Coal Side Event at COP23

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Back in 2015 at the COP21 climate conference in Paris, the U.S. delegation presented numerous side events in the Blue Zone, from EPA, NASA, NOAA, the Department of Energy and more. The United States clearly embraced its role as a world leader at a historic global inflection point. Fast forward two years, to the end of President Donald Trump’s first year…

Executive Order Guts Clean Power Plan : Trump’s Imaginary War on Coal has just Begun

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

This morning, under the cover of “energy independence,” U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for a rewrite of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. The Plan is the cornerstone of U.S. commitment to curbing emissions under the Paris climate agreement, so the rewrite represents a significant rollback of U.S. global warming mitigation as a whole. Unlike the rhetoric surrounding health care,…

Trump Energy Policy Opposed by Most Americans

Two-Thirds of Americans Prioritize Alternative Energy over Fossil Fuels

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

President Donald J. Trump’s energy policy runs contrary to the 65 percent of Americans who place a higher priority on alternative energy as opposed to fossil fuel development, according to the latest Pew Research Center survey.

Trump, the U.S. elections, and climate change. A pivotal moment

U.S. Elections are a Pivotal Moment for Climate Change Policy

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Dean Scott, the senior climate change reporter for Bloomberg, moderated a panel discussion this weekend at the 2016 conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists. The topic at hand was the upcoming U.S. elections and what it means for climate change policy, particularly if Donald Trump wins the presidency. You might think that his position on climate change is “typical”…

SCOTUS stay only a bump in the road for the Clean Power Plan as the trend away from dirty energy continues

Impact of Supreme Court Stay on Clean Power Plan

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Earlier this week the Supreme Court issued a stay in a 5-4 vote along idealogical lines halting progress on the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP), a mainstay of president Obama’s national climate action plan designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. The order briefly stated that the CPP is on hold until legal challenges to the rule have run…

Big Bank Tar Sands Financing More than Doubled in 2017

FERC Charts Open, Unbiased Course to Enhance Energy System Resilience

U.S. Delegation Offers Up Clean Coal Side Event at COP23

Executive Order Guts Clean Power Plan : Trump’s Imaginary War on Coal has just Begun

Two-Thirds of Americans Prioritize Alternative Energy over Fossil Fuels

U.S. Elections are a Pivotal Moment for Climate Change Policy

Impact of Supreme Court Stay on Clean Power Plan

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