Hurricane Florence made landfall on Friday in North Carolina, bringing heavy rains and flooding. But before the storm touched down in the U.S., scientists and news outlets were already linking the storm to global warming. However, not all scientists agree that man-made warming is making hurricanes, including Florence, bigger, slower and wetter as is often […]
California Approves Goal for 100% Renewable Electricity by 2045…
Ahead of a summit this week meant to galvanize regional action on climate change, Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed legislation that would put California on the path to eliminating fossil fuels from its energy sector. Senate Bill 100 speeds up the state’s timeline for moving to renewable energy sources like solar and wind, and […]
Mexican Trade Team: Regardless of Canada the Deal Between the U.S. and Mexico Still Stands…
Texas Exports More Oil Than It Imports for First Time Ever…
The Texas Gulf Coast oil terminals sent abroad more crude than they received in April, the Energy Information Administration said this week. During that month, crude oil exports from the Houston-Galveston port district exceeded imports by 15,000 bpd. Over the next month, the advantage of exports over imports welled further, to an impressive 470,000 bpd. […]
EPA Forced to Ban Pesticides Based on ‘Secret Science’ It Wants to End…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has fewer than 60 days to ban a commonly-used pesticide after a federal court ruled in favor of environmental activists in early August. The Natural Resources Defense council (NRDC) celebrated the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, arguing that EPA’s decision not to ban chlorpyrifos ignored “solid science” from its […]
ADP Private Payrolls: 219,000 Jobs Gained, 23,000 More Manufacturing Jobs…
The ADP national employment report is a monthly measure of the change in total U.S. nonfarm private employment derived from actual, anonymous payroll data of companies served by ADP. The report measures approximately 24 million U.S. workers along with employment trends in collaboration with Moody’s Analytics. For July 2018, ADP has calculated payroll increases of […]
What Does It Take to Put a Waterfall on a Skyscraper?…
You don’t see this very often—a 350-foot artificial waterfall pouring out of a skyscraper. It looks cool, but it also looks expensive. Gushing water isn’t free: You not only have to get the H2O, but you need energy to bring it to the top of the building. This is why the building only runs this […]
Zinke Is Shipping the Headquarters of the Largest Land-Owning Agency Out of DC…
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is making plans to move the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) out of Washington, D.C., to a city in the West. The federal government owns 640 million acres in the U.S., or roughly 28 percent of the nation’s entire landmass. The BLM manages 248.3 million acres of public […]
Trump Revokes Obama’s Response to BP Oil Spill…
President Trump on Tuesday formally revoked an order that former President Barack Obama issued after the massive BP oil spill eight years ago, an effort to promote domestic offshore energy production. Trump replaced the Obama order with a new executive order that extols environmental goals, but does not include Obama’s conservation directives and task forces. […]
Rolls Back Obama’s ‘Uber-Bureaucratic’ Ocean Policies…
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