June 27, 2020

Irish Draft Programme for Government Includes a Green New Deal and a Ban on Fracked Gas Imports

Download the draft Irish Programme for Government as a pdf
Read more in the
Irish Times


Excerpt from the draft Irish Programme for Government:

Mission: A Green New Deal

Emissions

We are committed to an average 7% per annum reduction …

June 26, 2020

Goldman Sachs Says Renewable-Energy Spending Will Surpass Oil and Gas for the First Time Ever in 2021

Sees total investment spiking to $16 trillion over the next decade
By Ben Winck, Business Insider, June 17, 2020

Read about the financial troubles of US shale companies in the Financial Times.


  • Green-energy investing will account for 25% of all
May 18, 2020

Solar Panels are More Efficient Than You’ve Heard

This material could make them even better
By Maddie Stone, Grist, May 13, 2020

From the article: Technologies that require less up-front capital investment, like perovskites, might ultimately be necessary to build the amount of solar power the world needs

November 4, 2019

Fracking Halted in England in Major Government U-Turn

Victory for green groups follows damning scientific study and criticism from spending watchdog
By Jillian Ambrose, The Guardian, November 1, 2109

The government has halted fracking in England with immediate effect in a watershed moment for environmentalists and community activists.…

October 2, 2019

The Research is In: Stop Fracking ASAP

Over 1,500 reports show there’s simply no safe way to do it — and it’s harming us all every day it goes on
By Barbara Gottlieb, Nation of Change, August 1, 2019

Science. Evidence. Facts. Do these even matter anymore …

August 11, 2019

Oil is a Horrendously Bad Investment

By Phillip Doe, Colorado


This Bank, the world’s 8th largest, estimates the opportunity cost of continued fossil fuel investment at $24 trillion, and that doesn’t include climate and health. Thus oil is a horrendously bad investment strategy even if their …

July 23, 2019

Is Shale Gas a Major Driver of Recent Increase in Global Atmospheric Methane?

By Robert W. Howarth
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853


Abstract

Methane has been rising rapidly in the atmosphere over the past decade, contributing to global climate change. Unlike the late 20th Century when the …

June 7, 2019

New Jersey Rejects Transco NESE Pipeline Under Raritan Bay

3 key permits are denied for a controversial pipeline that would send natural gas from NJ under Raritan Bay to NYC
By Scott Fallon, North Jersey Record, June 5, 2019

New York regulators rejected the NESE gas pipeline last month

May 22, 2019

New York Rejects Keystone-Like Pipeline in Fierce Battle Over the State’s Energy Future

Regulators denied an application for a $1 billion natural gas pipeline that environmentalists said would set back the fight against climate change
By Vivian Wang and Michael Adno, New York Times, May 15, 2019

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April 5, 2019

International Human Rights Court Recommends Worldwide Frac Ban

The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal has just released its Advisory Opinion, recommending a worldwide ban on hydraulic fracturing, the extreme oil and gas extraction technique known as  ‘fracking.’ The materials, and infrastructure of fracking inherently and necessarily violate human rights, the …

March 27, 2019

A Fracking-Driven Industrial Boom Renews Pollution Concerns in Pittsburgh

Once known as the Steel City, Pittsburgh is shedding its polluted past and embracing a rebirth built on health care, education, and technology. But the region’s surging fracking industry is attracting a $6 billion ethane plant and other petrochemical facilities,
March 21, 2019

US Judge Halts 100’s of Drilling Projects in Groundbreaking Climate Change Ruling

In a rebuke of the Trump administration’s ‘energy-first’ agenda, a judge rules greenhouse gas emissions must be considered
The Guardian, March 20, 2019

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