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Coal power losing steam; feds plan for offshore wind

by Seth Zuckerman on

Obama administration halts Dakota pipeline, Uber tests self-driving cars and 18-wheelers, abandoned mine repurposed for solar power pumped storage, and more news of the week in climate and clean energy. 

From the sea to Standing Rock: NW tribes hold the line against fossil fuels

by Jessie Dye on

The Lummi Nation's coal export fight in Washington strongly parallels the Standing Rock Sioux's fight against an oil pipeline in North Dakota.

Thousand-year dreaming: floods tell a climate story

by Derek Hoshiko and Erika Lundahl on

Even as drought and wildfire threaten agriculture, wildlife and air quality, other regions across North America are suffering the effects and aftereffects of intense flooding. As with wildfire, extreme flooding is also a story we must tell in the context of human-caused climate damage.

US & China ratify Paris pact, Dakota oil protest heats up

by Seth Zuckerman on

Grid in the eastern US could accommodate 30% renewable power, ‘sunny day’ coastal flooding already commonplace, UN body drafts rules to limit airline emissions, and more news of the week in climate and clean energy.

If the planet were a bank, we would have saved it already

by Jeff Johnson on

We know that we must transition away from fossil fuels, for the sake of our climate and our future. But we also have a responsibility to make sure that during the transition, workers and vulnerable communities are not left behind. That's why working people are standing up for a Just Transition. 

Cut climate pollution 40% by 2030? CA: “Yes, we will!”

by Seth Zuckerman on

Lummi bring totem pole to Sioux pipeline protest, sea-level rise may claim 1.9 million US homes by 2100, EV is to internal combustion as cell is to landline, and more news of the week in climate and clean energy. 

Solar marks new low price, US gets first offshore wind

by Seth Zuckerman on

US finalizes fuel economy standards for big trucks, Louisiana floods made more likely by global warming, Washington rolls out smart grid pilot projects, and more news of the week in climate and clean energy.

Cloud Mother

by Jonathan Lawson on

An art installation at Seattle’s Arts in Nature Festival takes a loving and optimistic look at the natural basis for our climate stability: clouds, rain, and the water cycle.

Oil trains: not just unsafe. Unnecessary.

by KC Golden and Eileen V. Quigley on

Will it be hard to transition completely from oil to clean energy? Yes. But it’s well within our reach.

Solar power rates rattled, China’s coal use has peaked

by Seth Zuckerman on

New York passes 50% RPS and billion-dollar nuclear subsidy, Ford to test self-driving vehicles on MIT campus, Sierra Club to retire 53-million-ton coal deposit, and more news of the week in climate and clean energy.

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Earth Week in a time of monsters

“The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci wrote in 1930, “and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” Today’s intersection of monstrous planetary crises has a name and a face: the Trump administration, with fossil fuel interests pulling strings behind the scenes.