tingilinde

american gasoline use

Quite a drop.

 

 

an open license to pollute

The Republican EPA.

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The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced a sweeping relaxation of environmental rules in response to the coronavirus pandemic, allowing power plants, factories and other facilities to determine for themselves if they are able to meet legal requirements on reporting air and water pollution.

The move comes amid an influx of requests from businesses for a relaxation of regulations as they face layoffs, personnel restrictions and other problems related to the coronavirus outbreak.

Issued by the E.P.A.’s top compliance official, Susan P. Bodine, the policy sets new guidelines for companies to monitor themselves for an undetermined period of time during the outbreak and says that the agency will not issue fines for violations of certain air, water and hazardous-waste-reporting requirements.

Companies are normally required to report when their factories discharge certain levels of pollution into the air or water.

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one of the few silver linings

Cleaner air. (via The New York Times)

 

 

a bit of bright news

Financial and management issues at the Heartland Institute.

a tip of the hat to Xeni

 

 

oi companies and climate change

Malcolm Harris (author of a well-review, but unread by me book on millennials) gets invited to a workshop at Shell where they try and think about their future. He didn't have to sign an NDA and writes about the experience in New York Magazine. 

 

 

 

 

 

the coronavirus and carbon emissions

Partly shut down a huge economy dependent on fossil fuels and guess what? (via The New York Times)

 

 

 

a pro-trump organization builds a denialist greta in germany

Evil, but not unexpected. (via The Washington Post)

They use the term climate skeptic -  that's wrong.  Science denialist or global warming denialist is more accurate.

 

 

our greenhouse gas emissions may be much higher than we thought

Methane - natural gas is basically methane -  is a very powerful greenhouse gas.  Some is emitted from a variety of sources and people have pointed out leakage in mining and transporting natural gas could make it as bad as using coal. There's quite a bit in the atmosphere - some from us and some natural, but now it appears the much more of it is from us.  There is still a lot of work to be done to understand what's really going on, but moving forward is difficult to as Republicans have killed funding for American and our part of international studies.   At the same time it makes sense to dramatically reduce dependance on fossil fuels..  

 

heart(less)land

Evidence of the Heartland Lobby spreading its lies in Germany to support climate change denial.

a tip of the hat to John

 

imagine if they were competent

The Trump administration has been trying to do some awful things.. sometimes successfully, but often their incompetence rules. 

a tip of the hat to Sukie