Sustainability

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Alternative fuels have lost some of their luster in the US, lately. With this in mind, I spoke with former Shell Oil Company President John Hofmeister, who recently joined a group dedicated to expanding fuel diversity.[read more]

ExxonMobil oil spill in Arkansas

Despite a massive cleanup effort in the Mayflower, Arkansas, neighborhood, the federal pipeline safety agency reports that ExxonMobil has recovered only 2,000 of the total 5,000 barrels of spilled tar sands crude.[read more]

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I have written in recent posts that oil limits are more complex than what many have imagined. They aren’t just a lack of a liquid fuel. Debt limits are also closely tied to oil supply limits.[read more]

groundwater depletion

Depletion of groundwater reserves has more than doubled in recent decades as a result of population growth and the increased demand on groundwater reservoirs for drinking water and the irrigation of croplands.[read more]

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Why worry about a little bit of extra greenhouse gas emissions--on the order of about 19 million metric tons annually, according to EPA estimates--from tar sands? Why indeed.[read more]

climate change on campus

Climate issues are clearly important to today’s college students – 62% of all college applicants in a survey said a school’s commitment to the environment would influence their decision to apply or attend the school.[read more]

tar sands

On the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, EPA rated the adequacy of the State Department’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) as having “Insufficient Information.”[read more]

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With the third largest proven reserves of oil in the world, there has been a major push to expand pipeline capacity to Canada's coasts and on one of those coasts there is an election underway.[read more]

renaming Earth Day?

Renaming Earth Day remains more relevant than ever in light of the world’s ongoing inaction on climate change, the over-running of Congress by climate zombies, and Obama’s multi-year fecklessness on this gravest of threats.[read more]

EU energy goals

Already Brussels is looking beyond 2020 for its climate and energy targets, with the European institutions in recent weeks endorsing 2030 goals and opening public consultation on the 2030 policy framework.[read more]

landfill energy harvesting

Another alternative waste management option that America has not significantly utilized but that could help stem the flow of waste, and thus pollution emissions, in our country: energy-from-waste, or EfW, facilities.[read more]

Deepwater Horizon

We've issued report card on the progress made and the considerable work yet to be done since the BP spill, assigning grades to the three key actors: the administration (B), the offshore drilling industry (B-); and the U.S. Congress (D+).[read more]

solar energy apps

People have now become tools of their web and mobile applications. The solar industry has jumped right in with an influx of innovative new online technologies, digital apps, and customer engagement strategies.[read more]

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First, the standards put forth by CSSD are no substitute for strong regulation and enforcement. Voluntary efforts by industry leaders help only to distinguish the best from the rest and raise the bar.[read more]

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Since the birth of the EV, a number of innovative startups have been set up and failed. Does the latest failure mean bad news for the EV industry? Or is it too soon to tell?[read more]