Letters to the Editor: Take these climate steps to save Alaska’s polar bears and California’s Joshua trees
3 months, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: Take these climate steps to save Alaska’s polar bears and California’s Joshua trees

LA Times  

Glaciers such as Mendenhall in Juneau, Alaska, are rapidly shrinking as average temperatures rise. To the editor: I fully agree with David Helvarg’s concern that Alaska is both a climate victim and a perpetrator. First, we need more nuclear power, the only non-warming energy source that can quickly meet the scale of our demand without undue habitat destruction. Such renewables include California desert solar power, recently and surprisingly characterized as producing surplus energy. But will we or won’t we take the necessary actions to save our only spaceship and its precious inhabitants, whether polar bears in Alaska or Joshua trees in the California desert?

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Letters to the Editor: Regardless of Trump, the battle against climate change is picking up. Let’s keep it going
4 months ago

Letters to the Editor: Regardless of Trump, the battle against climate change is picking up. Let’s keep it going

LA Times  

Postal Service worker inspects trucks in a flooded area of New Port Richley, Fla., after Hurricane Milton on Oct. 11. Last year, the average global temperature was 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average, a tipping point for much greater damage. The renewable energy transition has also reached a tipping point; new renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels, and almost …

Column: Here’s what Exxon’s CEO gets wrong about the climate crisis
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: Here’s what Exxon’s CEO gets wrong about the climate crisis

LA Times  

Oil and gas conglomerate Exxon Mobil could be a key player in global efforts to combat the climate crisis — if only governments would remove burdensome regulations and stop wasting money on inefficient clean energy incentives. I also shook my head in amazement as Woods suggested that a major barrier to slashing carbon pollution is that the world lacks “a …

Native Americans are building their own solar farms
1 year, 3 months ago

Native Americans are building their own solar farms

BBC  

Native Americans are building their own solar farms Indigenized Energy Cody Two Bears founded Indigenized Energy, a native-led energy company installing solar farms for tribal nations in the US For decades, Native Americans were reliant on the US government to bring them power. Getty Images Native Americans have spent decades protesting against the expansion of fossil fuel production on their …

Opinion: To help fight the climate crisis, we should plant more trees
2 years, 4 months ago

Opinion: To help fight the climate crisis, we should plant more trees

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Jad Daley is president and CEO of American Forests and a leader of the U.S. chapter of 1t.org. Leaders across the forest-climate movement, including ourselves, have always made clear that the most important step we must take to fight climate change is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Chuck Fazio Christie Hemm Klok In recent months, despite the deadly …

Editorial: California can’t enact a ‘solar tax’ and still be a climate leader
3 years, 1 month ago

Editorial: California can’t enact a ‘solar tax’ and still be a climate leader

LA Times  

Of all the details in California regulators’ plan to slash incentives for installing rooftop solar systems, the most confounding is the idea of charging customers a hefty monthly fee to go solar. The PUC’s sweeping proposal would also dramatically cut the compensation solar customers receive for the electricity they provide to the grid through a key incentive program, called net …

Should California make solar more expensive? Inside the climate justice battle
3 years, 4 months ago

Should California make solar more expensive? Inside the climate justice battle

LA Times  

Parakeets and lovebirds were chirping in Marta Patricia Martinez’s frontyard as a crew of solar installers climbed onto her roof. “We will fall horribly short of our clean energy goals if we kill the rooftop solar market,” said Bernadette Del Chiaro, executive director of the California Solar & Storage Assn. Building lots of rooftop solar “makes it easier and cheaper.” …

Op-Ed: How California can lead the way on climate-protecting technologies
3 years, 7 months ago

Op-Ed: How California can lead the way on climate-protecting technologies

LA Times  

It’s easy to be pessimistic about the problem of global climate change. They aren’t yet at the global level — where the world’s dependence on conventional fossil fuels has barely budged — but rather in pioneering countries and states that are making big investments in the new technologies needed to protect the planet. Electric vehicles account for 8% of new …

California is broiling and burning. Here are ideas for dealing with climate despair
4 years, 7 months ago

California is broiling and burning. Here are ideas for dealing with climate despair

LA Times  

Wind turbines near the 10 freeway in Cabazon are framed by the smoke from the Lake fire. My colleagues Tony Barboza, Louis Sahagun and Joseph Serna looked at the big picture, writing that “millions are experiencing the havoc that ensues with extreme weather that is growing more frequent with climate change.” California’s power grid operator faulted the Public Utilities Commission …

Climate Change Lesson From California's Blackouts: Prepare For Extremes
4 years, 7 months ago

Climate Change Lesson From California's Blackouts: Prepare For Extremes

NPR  

Climate Change Lesson From California's Blackouts: Prepare For Extremes Enlarge this image toggle caption FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Scorching heat across the Western United States has left California scrambling to avoid rolling blackouts, as air conditioners send electricity use soaring. But energy experts say state officials failed to prepare adequately for high …

Renewable energy corporations fight endangered species status for Joshua trees
4 years, 7 months ago

Renewable energy corporations fight endangered species status for Joshua trees

LA Times  

Joshua trees dot the Southern California desert. “We figure the number of Joshua trees that would be impacted would only be in the hundreds, potentially thousands,” said Randy Hoyle, chief development officer at Terra-Gen Power, a renewable energy developer in the California desert. “Joshua trees embody the spirit of the California desert,” Feinstein said in a recent letter to the …

The world’s most unlikely solar farms
5 years, 1 month ago

The world’s most unlikely solar farms

BBC  

The world’s most unlikely solar farms Fischer Knapp Snow obstructing the sunlight can put solar panels out of action, and requires regular clearing in colder months Solar energy has become so accessible that new farms are being switched on in the most unexpected places – including in the depths of the Alaskan winter. “We got out and drove piles and …

California faces a crossroads on the path to 100% clean energy
5 years, 3 months ago

California faces a crossroads on the path to 100% clean energy

LA Times  

Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand has long fought to shut down the gas-fired AES power plant in his city. The commission said the Redondo Beach facility — and three other coastal gas plants also slated for closure or rebuilding — is needed to keep reliable electricity flowing to Southern California residents for a few more years, until utilities can fully …

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