The creeping threat of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt

Seaweed has been having a moment. Eco-influencers and columnists rave about its benefits, in everything from beauty products to biofuels. Jamie Oliver has embraced it as a recipe ingredient; Victoria Beckham uses it to keep off the pounds. And they’re…

Iowa Ethanol Lobby Wants CO2 Pipelines To Stay Competitive With EVs

Iowa’s biofuel lobby is staking its future on carbon capture and sequestration. That’s why it’s issuing dire warnings this week to lawmakers in Des Moines who are considering putting new strictures on the construction of CO2 pipelines. [emphasis, links added]…

GAO Found EPA’s Denial Of Small Refiners’ Waivers To Be Arbitrary

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to deny small oil refiners’ exemptions from the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) was arbitrary. In June, EPA denied 69 small refinery exemption petitions from the RFS mandate. The…

These Guys Make Edible Cement From Food Waste – And You Can Literally Add it to Your Gingerbread House

A pair of Japanese researchers have launched a startup that turns food waste into cement with 4-times better bending resistance. The potential applications are endless, and as well as being potential building material, the cement can produce any kind of simple object like tea cups or chairs; but it’s also edible, and aromatic, and biodegradable. […]

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COP27: Experts flag proposals to include carbon removals in UN trading mechanism

The recommendations, made at the beginning of COP27, provide a broad definition of removals and do not distinguish between them, according to civil society groups

Transforming Society

How can the problems of war, climate collapse and famine best be addressed?  Earlier this year, the U.N. issued a warning about famine, pointing out that war is compounding the problems of climate disruption and famine, adding that the “main…

The Biden Administration’s Great American Energy Implosion

Self-inflicted wounds create teachable moments, but the architects of America’s current energy crisis are learning all the wrong lessons. Skyrocketing energy costs are one of America’s harsh post-Covid realities. And with one in four American households struggling to pay for…

From climate change denial to delayism: Oil firms send academics into the fray – EL PAÍS USA

On April 8, 2021, José Francisco Contreras Peláez, a member of Spain’s lower house of parliament, spoke during a session of the parliamentary committee for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge. Contreras, a deputy representing the hard-right party Vox, was there…

Joe Biden’s Energy Crisis A Man-Made Disaster

The West is experiencing its third energy crisis. The first, in 1973, was caused by the near-quintupling of the price of crude oil by Gulf oil producers in response to America’s support for Israel in the Yom Kippur war. Their…

TIME Magazine: Corn Ethanol Fuel ‘Making Climate Situation Worse’

An article from TIME Magazine’s online news site points out that corn ethanol fuel used as a gasoline additive or replacement is not as environmentally friendly as proponents claim. TIME is correct. Research shows that not only does the promotion…