Category: Climate change
We Are Jamaica And Jamaica Is Us
The storm that hit Jamaica last week was made more powerful by hotter ocean temperatures caused by human activity.
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Golden Week Goes Electric: China’s Holiday Travel Becomes a Showcase for the Clean Economy
Golden Week in China has always been a national ritual of movement, most often compared to Thanksgiving in the USA. Highways fill, train stations hum, and the country seems to breathe in and out in rhythm with its people heading home or out to see the country. It has also … [continued]
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New MSU project: How agricultural production might be improved by solar panels to be studied
Researchers at Michigan State University are working to create an outdoor lab that monitors the effects of solar arrays on farms and their crops across the state. The goal of the project is to use solar energy to improve agricultural production.
Battery Factories Show Trump Can’t Stop Clean Energy — He Can Only Slow It
Every few years, a new administration tries to steer the course of the energy transition by decree. Some do it by boosting clean technologies through subsidies and regulation. Others try to restore fossil fuel dominance by dismantling those same supports. The idea that a single political cycle can redirect a … [continued]
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approves Enbridge plan to encase aging Great Lakes oil pipeline
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved energy company Enbridge’s plan to encase a segment of an aging oil pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac. The decision Wednesday comes despite findings that construction could harm the environmentally sensitive area. The Corps fast-tracked the project in April after a directive from President Donald Trump. Enbridge now needs a permit from Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy to start the project. Environmentalists are urging the state to deny the permit.