Australia’s top climate scientist says “we are already deep into the trajectory towards collapse” of civilization, which may now be inevitable because 9 of the 15 known global climate tipping points that regulate the state of the planet have been activated. Australian National University emeritus professor Will Steffen (pictured) told Voice of Action that there was already […]
How does the US retire 236 GW of coal and 1,000 gas peaker plants?
We’ve reached a massive milestone in the global energy transition — the ability, right now, of renewable energy sources and energy storage to match or beat the price of power from natural gas-fired peaker plants and coal-fired generators. The problem is that energy markets are not exactly free markets — and replacement of existing generation […]
Geothermal energy is surging — battered oil and gas companies should take advantage
The following is a contributed article by Jigar Shah, co-founder of the clean-energy and clean-tech investment firm Generate Capital, and Timothy Latimer, co-founder of Fervo Energy. Big Oil came into 2020 with big promises: big drops in greenhouse gas emissions, big investments in carbon-capture technology, big steps to make oil and gas a viable part […]
Time for a diet: Today’s US homes have super-sized into “energy gluttons”
The United States has a housing problem. Not only are there too few, but those that we have are also gluttons, using almost twice as much energy per home as those in Europe. Only Canada’s homes, most of which endure long and biting winters, use more. Our leaky, inefficient homes produce nearly one-fifth of the […]
Senate Democrats reveal climate plan that could ‘almost entirely’ define clean energy policy under Biden admin
Senate Democrats on Tuesday released a report laying out policy recommendations Congress should adopt in order to bring the U.S. to a net-zero carbon economy by 2050. The report, released by the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis, calls on Congress to spend at least 2% of annual U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) on climate actions, with 40% […]