Stanford Medicine leaders sign Biden administration pledge to address climate change – Stanford Medical Center Report
A roundtable at the White House on reducing the health care industry’s climate-warming emissions includes leaders from Stanford Medicine. June 30, 2022 Leaders at Stanford Medicine have pledged to reduce climate-warming emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by…
Opinion: Davos Was a Case Study in How Not to Talk About Climate Change – Undark Magazine
Science has a resistance to ill-founded assertions embedded deep in its bones. Carl Sagan called this “baloney detection.” But in the face of climate change, arguably our largest science-related crisis, these baloney detection capabilities haven’t kept our leaders honest. Consider…
EPA Sets Timetable for Curbing Leaks of Climate-Warming HFCs – NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)
WASHINGTON – Under an agreement announced today, the Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to a timeline for implementing a congressional mandate to issue federal standards curbing leaks of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), super-potent climate-warming chemicals used in industrial and commercial refrigeration equipment. …
Editorial: Facing climate change, we must resist the quick fix on oil prices – Boulder Daily Camera
Why is it that climate-change deniers are so quick to speak up when the weather is cold and icy, but become as mute as a mime when America is suffering from record heat? The first three weeks of June saw…
Biden DOE Report Shows Massive Oil-And-Gas Job Losses
The Biden administration published its annual U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) Tuesday, showing large fossil fuel industry job losses. The Department of Energy (DOE) report found that the fuels technology sector experienced job losses totaling 29,271 jobs in 2021,…
Ozone layer damage due to rocket launches?
A new study by NOAA says that with the increase in rocket launches over the next 20 years, the soot emitted from these launches could damage the ozone layer.
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ESG Scam Rates Slave-Using Chinese Firms Higher Than American Ones
Expecting publicly traded companies to do more than simply return shareholder value — their fiduciary responsibility — is a fairly new development in Western capitalism. The idea that corporate leadership and shareholders should explicitly care about environmental, social, and corporate…
As The U.S. Faces Recession, Russia’s Oil And Gas Industry Is Booming
Russia’s financial system is booming in spite of strict sanctions, according to the International Institute of Finance. Deputy Chief Economist Elina Ribakova outlined in a Twitter thread how Russia’s massive oil and gas revenues have positively impacted the Russian financial…
Biden’s Green-Energy Claptrap Has Gotten Stale And Tiresome
The White House staff probably won’t be walking back Sunday’s remarks by President Joe Biden, but it’s time for the administration to retire a set of talking points that have grown awfully stale. That’s because even the most ardent backers…
With climate change, we must resist the quick fix on oil supplies | Editorial – The Philadelphia Inquirer
Why is it that climate-change deniers are so quick to speak up when the weather is cold and icy, but become as mute as a mime when America is suffering from record heat? The first three weeks of June saw…
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