Companies, Politics
- DOE’s Menezes says U.S. LNG exports are “spreading freedom gas throughout the world”
- New oil discoveries surge to 3.2 billion BOE in first quarter, boosted by Guyana finds
- U.S. recycling 9 percent of plastics
- EPA wants to triple amount of rocket fuel perchlorate allowed in drinking water
- Amazon shareholders reject plan to force company to reduce fossil-fuel emissions
Protests
- Kansas farmers, tired of noisy wind turbines, want to require 3,000-foot setbacks from wind farms instead of current 500 feet
- Oceans may rise seven feet in the next 80 years
- CellCube plans no-degradation 50-MW/200-MWh vanadium grid battery for Port Augusta, Australia
- China to blame for climate change by “dawdling” on carbon-trading cure-all, Bloomberg says
- U.S. could save billions in congestion costs by upgrading its electricity grid, wind industry says
Science
- Texas considers making pipeline protests a crime equivalent to attempted murder
- The score on electric buses: China: 421,000; U.S.: 300
- Air pollution causes more health problems than smoking, blamed for cancer, poor sleep, autism, Parkinson’s, obesity and mental health problems
- HonorCouragePride crowd is silent about how it will deal with poisoning Pacific Islanders with radiation
- Distributed solar would grow to 10% of U.S. electricity supply in 20 years under Inslee plan
