US EPA Enables Polluting Plastics Plants by Failing to Update Wastewater Limits, Report Says – as reported by r. j. sigmund Federal regulators have enabled US plastics plants across the country to dump dangerous chemicals into waterways by failing to update wastewater limits for over 30 years, according to a new analysis by a watchdog […]
Trump and his minions may not believe in global warming, but people whose livelihoods depend on understanding climate change—bankers, insurance companies and the military—know it’s real. So do non-humans whose livelihoods are compromised by climate change: “Native fish populations will likely continue their decline off of Massachusetts’ coast, while species from further south will move […]
The nation went through a period of high gasoline prices, even though the government released oil from the reserves. Now it appears the US has a glut of oil and may (and always has) lack refinery capacity. Prices appear to have stabilized in many places at about $3.50 per gallon (I may be paying more […]
We had rooftop solar on our house for eight years before we moved. Half the price was paid by Ameren, the electric utility, and we got a 30% tax rebate on the balance. Even with that steep discount, we never got back our put, even in nominal dollars. Solar panels are much cheaper now, and […]
Trump says global warming is a scam and a hoax. He promises to cut federal funding for green programs and to ramp up fracking and drilling. He can certainly do the former, but business controls drilling and fracking, and the price of oil is dictated by international supply and demand, not the whims of the […]
Renewables 2023 – Analysis – IEA 2023 saw a step change in renewables capacity additions, driven by China’s solar PV market. Achieving the COP28 target of tripling global renewable capacity by 2030 will hinge on policy implementation. Summary: I have read through this several times now. It is difficult to pull together all the detail […]
I have been reading Lloyd for about 20 years now. His specialty I would say is the environment and environmental issues and how humans cause the good, bad, and ugly of them. Good reading with multiple flow charts. Some detail before the Commentary by Llyod. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) produced the first diagrams illustrating […]
Agriculture requires photosynthesis to make food. However, the photosynthetic mechanism is slow, inefficient and requires a lot of resources. A recent paper describes an electro-agriculture technology that combines carbon dioxide electrolysis with biological systems to boost the efficiency of food production. If implemented at scale, such a system could reduce agricultural land use in the […]
This is not the complete report which can be found here: Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good. The report questions our present knowledge of water how it is viewed and its usage. I will let the authors explain. The Problem Humanity Has Created Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance […]
This is interesting as the fight is over wetlands which is something we were battling about in Michigan too. Builders like to build close to them or fill in parts of it to expand their development. We did manage to establish 75-foot setbacks to houses so as to protect the wetland. The subdivision we lived […]