Last week, the newly imposed Trump tariffs on foreign-manufactured solar panels came into effect.
Renewables
EIA: Once again projecting a future that will not come
Given EIA’s shoddy track record, today’s Annual Energy Outlook projecting climate doom leaves us feeling quite confident that we’ll continue to kick our fossil fuel addiction and tackle our climate crisis.
Shell: We will go from “Big Oil into Big Energy”
Shell’s scenarios leader says: “I am tasked with making sure that Shell isn’t a dodo.” So will Shell become extinct in the upcoming energy transition or dominate the new energy landscape?
23,000 Solar Jobs at Risk As Trump Imposes Tariffs on Imports
Climate denying, President Trump has yet again shown his anti-green credentials by trying to undermine the US solar industry.
As Trump Launches “Energy Week”, Teenagers See Renewables as Fuel of Their Generation
As Trump launches “Energy Week”, a new survey finds that well over two thirds of teenagers believe renewables are the fuels of their generation, whereas oil and gas are their parents’ fuel.
When will Exxon will be worthless? Not if.
These are dizzying days. Our best advice is to stay woke, and pay attention. As we prepare for a day that will revolve around Trump’s Rose Garden speech to Make America Guzzle&Gush Again, it is worth taking a moment to focus on the amazing events in the background over the last few days: Kinder Morgan’s … Read More
As Others Plot the Renewables Revolution, Trump Walks Backwards to Drill Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
As energy pioneers disrupt that market towards clean tech, Trump and his fossil fuel buddies cling to a by-gone age of fossil fuels. But we must not let them destroy America’s “crown jewels” in what could be one of the last destructive acts of the hydrocarbon age
100% Renewable Energy Bill – A first foot forward
Today, Sens. Merkley (D-OR) and Sanders (I-VT) launched a bill that takes a huge step toward aligning government policy with what climate science tells us is necessary – a transition to a 100% carbon-free economy, as soon as possible.
As Britain Celebrates Coal-Free Day, Solar Could Soon Shine in US Coal Country
April 21 2017, will go down as a significant day in the dying days of the fossil fuel era. For the first time since the renewable revolution in 1882, Britain went a full day without using dirty coal to generate electricity.
Donald the Medieval King Canute of Coal
Like the misguided Medieval King Canute, who believed he could hold back the incoming tide, Trump yesterday tried to reign back President Obama’s climate legacy and derail the “unstoppable” clean energy transition, by denying climate science and pledging his allegiance to fossil fuels, notably coal.