Large Coal Plants Slated to Close in Ohio and Pennsylvania
September 18, 2018FirstEnergy is planning to close its last coal-fired power plants in Pennsylvania and Ohio over the next several years as…
United Kingdom’s Wind Farms Idled in Summer Heat Wave
September 14, 2018The United Kingdom’s wind farm capacity increased by over 10 percent from last year, but the share of electricity the…
China Generates Most of Its Power from Coal
September 13, 2018Some people falsely surmise that because China’s capacity addition of wind and solar power is the largest in the world…
“Negative Emissions”: The Emperor’s New Clothes
September 6, 2018“The current annual cost to extract all of the annual emissions [of CO2] is of the order of $1,000 per…
Trump Undoes Obama’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards
August 31, 2018In 2012, the Obama administration issued rules ordering carmakers to improve the average miles per gallon of their car fleets…
In 2017, the U.S. Had the Largest Reduction in Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the World
August 3, 2018The United States announced its intentions to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement last year, but still reduced its carbon…
