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Electrification of power sources, transportation vehicles and heating and cooling systems is absolutely essential to make a clean energy revolution in enough time to prevent escalating and massive, worldwide climate catastrophe
Texas’s energy crisis may be particularly grave, but it far from an isolated case. Today’s electric grids are a relic of the early twentieth century
Scot Quaranda: Biden’s EPA Nominee Must Act on Forests to Be an Environmental Justice ChampionPlease Help ZNet Source: Truthout Photo by OlegRi/Shutterstock The confirmation process for President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the current secretary of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality (NC DEQ) Michael Regan, has begun. While many environmental groups have enthusiastically supported his appointment, his leadership on environmental Read more…
Sharon Zhang: Fossil Fuel Pollution Caused Nearly 1 in 5 Premature Deaths in 2018“There’s a vaccine for the 8.7 million deaths caused each year by air pollution from fossil fuels. That vaccine is called solar panels and wind turbines”
Anna Clark: Don’t Forget About FlintThe Roots of Its Water Crisis Remain Unaddressed
Jeremy Nichols: Last Trump sale of public lands for fracking prompts outrage and hopePresident-elect Biden must follow through with commitment to ban sale of public lands for fracking, put climate, justice, public lands first
Jerry Redfern: New Mexico’s Economists: “Like It or Not, We’re at the Tail End of the Fossil Fuel Age.”Right now, more than 40% of the state’s income relies on the boom-and-bust fortunes of oil and gas. Now, according to a trio of New Mexico’s leading economists, the time has come to change course
John Scales Avery: Human Society And The BiosphereAccording to a recent United Nations report, more than a million species of plants and animals are currently threatened with extinction because of human activities