Category: “Middle Column”
- Despite Ivanpaugh’s record of killing birds, California regulators give preliminary approval to Palen, another solar thermal plant
- Duke didn’t remove 77% of the coal ash it spilled in the Dan River, and new North Carolina law on coal waste won’t require more cleaning
- Rich New Yorkers drive neighbors crazy with private geothermal drilling
- U.S. State Department under Hillary Clinton urged other countries to start hydraulic fracturing
- Chevron’s 27 air-quality violations at its Richmond refinery will cost the company about $10,000 apiece
- Stephen Harper, prime minister of oil-rich Canada, will skip UN climate meeting and arrive in NYC two days later for an unrelated event
- Former prime minister of Australia Kevin Rudd says the carbon tax that he introduced is about to be repealed
- Carbon pricing programs such as trading permits are a good way to fight climate change, World Bank says
- Despite what NYT says, fracking is not creating enough jobs to justify the environmental havoc it wreaks, Huffpost asserts
- WTO’s trade rules are getting in the way of fighting climate change, Klein says in new book