More than 8,500 separate fires burned during 2018 in California, making them the deadliest and most destructive of any year in the state’s history.
… and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics combined physical, epidemiological … from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and the Norwegian University of …
Greece is Europe's sandbox for the neoliberal free-for-all to follow if the EU and the US sign off on the TTIP trade and investment treaty, writes Pavlos Georgiadis. The termination of public services, the cut-price sell-off of public assets, the dismantling of environmental protection, the democratic closedown, the rule of corporations and finance capital ... all coming your way soon.
Greece is the testing ground for the TTIP era of corporate rule Pavlos Georgiadis Sustainable Food Trust | 5th November 2015 News Trade Finance EU USA Greece Corporations greece-cut.jpg Greece is …
Almost 60 years since the world's first commercial nuclear power station began to deliver power to the UK's grid, the industry remains as far from being able to cover its costs as ever, writes Pete Dolack. But while unfunded liabilities increase year by year, governments are still willing to commit their taxpayers' billions to new nuclear plants with no hope of ever being viable.
… Pete Dolack | 4th January 2016 News Nuclear Economics Energy USA UK … full liability of accidents." Nor have the economics of nuclear energy become rational … of Germany's Heinrich Böll Stiftung, The Economics of Nuclear Power: An Update , …
War would be the end for Trump, very bad for the American ruling class and ordinary Americans, and catastrophic for ordinary Iranians.
Iran and drought, Trump and war Jonathan Neale | 20th June 2019 News Donald Trump War USA Iran Thought Leaders donald_trump_29496131773.jpg War would be the end for Trump, very bad for the American …
For the second year running CO2 emissions flatlined even as the global economy was growing at around 3%, writes Alex Kirby. But sharply rising temperatures show the need for further massive renewable energy deployment to actually bring emissions down.
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Nuclear power advocates cling like limpets to the idea of 'baseload' power, writes Michael Mariotte. No surprise there - it's the only selling point they've got. It's just too bad the idea is obsolete. Variable renewables combined with stronger grids, energy storage and responsive demand can do a better job for less money. No wonder the shills are getting desperate.
… , that just shows the absurd nature of the economics of electricity and the failure to … large-scale technological changes, customer economics will force the current incumbent …
For anyone who believes in the ineffable wisdom of 'free' markets, the current sinkaway oil price takes some explaining, writes James Meadway. Saudi Arabia's big gamble that it could put US shale oil out of business by over-pumping has now collided with China's falling demand for energy. Result: oil producers everywhere are swimming in red ink. Where will it all end?
… Energy Oil Fracking USA Saudi Arabia China Economics oil-refinery-art-cut.jpg For anyone … The 'fracking revolution' has transformed the economics of oil production globally, with the … output could be reached. Prices slumped. The economics of oil production are simple - …
What was NATO's violent intervention in Libya really all about? Now we know, writes Ellen Brown, thanks to Hillary Clinton's recently published emails. It was to prevent the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc, shaking off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.
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The Walton family, owners of Walmart and Asda, project a 'public environmentalism', writes Mike Gaworecki. But their real agenda is to advance a monopolistic corporate economic model that is threatened by decentralised energy solutions like rooftop solar. The answer? Exterminate!
Walmart, Asda owners using their billions to attack rooftop solar Mike Gaworecki DeSmogBlog | 20th November 2014 News USA Solar Renewables Energy first-solar-cut.jpg The Walton family, owners of …
President Trump comes into office determined to discard huge swathes of his predecessor's legacy on day one, writes Mark Barteau. But he will struggle to undo Obama's clean energy regulations. It's not just that they are legally robust, it's also that energy markets in the US and the wider world have shifted firmly, and irreversibly, towards efficiency and renewables. Sorry, Mr Trump.
… future. The demise of coal is a matter of economics , not policy or regulation. But if …
With European climate policy in post-Brexit lockdown, and US delegates gripped by uncertainty (even for their own jobs) following Trump's election, a new global climate leader is emerging, writes Natalie Bennett. China is stepping up as the country with the finance, technology and industrial might to take forward the Paris Agreement - and for its companies to reap the benefits.
… is at COP22 in Marrakesh with the Green Economics Institute . It's not just in the …
The Bering Sea is America's biggest fishery - but factory trawlers are ripping the guts out of the ecosystem, writes Jeffrey St.Clair, as they have already devastated fishing communities. Mix in nuclear bomb test fallout - an unlikely savior?
… So Long It Looked Like Green to Me on the economics and politics driving the looting of …
The United States is trying to water-down the recommendations made in the third report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due to be released this Friday, the Associated Press reports.
US lobbies for watered-down IPCC report 2nd May 2007 News US USA United States Ipcc Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change Climate Change Global Warming Politics Lobbying Carbon Dioxide Global …
Attempts to recycle E-waste and donations of old electronic devices are harming poor people's health and devastating the environment, writes Nele Goutier. Agbogbloshie, once an idyllic landscape of wetlands and small farms, is now the most toxic place in the world ...
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The Paris Agreement is a severely inadequate response to the climate crisis the world now faces, writes Pete Dolack, full of vague aspirations and devoid of hard, enforceable commitments. But the impending US withdrawal is still bad news for us all - including the Trump-supporting Koch brothers, set to gain billions from their Alberta tarsands holdings. Short-term profits are a poor exchange for a less livable world, even for those making the money.
Wrong way! A climatic baby step forward beats a giant leap back Pete Dolack Systemic Disorder | 7th June 2017 News Climate Change USA Politics Corporations Paris Agreement wrong-way-tarsands-cut.jpg …
The world is in the grip of a 'fracking frenzy that threatens us for centuries to come with polluted aquifers, runaway climate change, destruction of biodiversity and worthless 'sub-prime' investments. Just as the world must make the transition to a sustainable future, our 'leaders' are determined to make this last losing throw of the fossil fuel dice.
'Fracking frenzy' - how the shale gas industry is threatening the planet Friends of the Earth Europe | 11th December 2014 News Fracking Fossil Fuels EU Climate Change Pollution Waste USA …
New York has approved a major expansion of the state's 'NY-Sun' initiative - a program that is boosting solar power across the state. The program has been extended through 2023 and aims to deliver a tenfold increase in the clean energy source.
Tenfold solar expansion approved for New York state The Ecologist | 25th April 2014 News USA Solar Power Renewables Energy dykelumber-rooftop-solar.jpg New York has approved a major expansion of the …
Nuclear power was originally sold on a lie, writes Dave Elliott. While we were being told it would make electricity 'too cheap to meter', insiders knew it cost at least 50% more than conventional generation. Since then nuclear costs have only risen, while renewable energy prices are on a steep decline. And now the nuclear behemoths are crumbling ... not a moment too soon.
… the accidents that were the problem. The poor economics of nuclear gradually became more …
The oil industry and oil producers have a long history of market manipulation, writes Karl Grossman, and we see it going on right now with the low oil price that's squeezing fracking and getting America back onto gas-guzzling SUV's. But longer term, solar power is going to win out, and even Saudi Arabia knows it. Its game? To make out big, while the going's good.
Saudi Arabia's oil price manipulation - let's get rich while we still can! Karl Grossman | 2nd May 2015 News Energy Oil USA Saudi Arabia Corporations Renewables oil-refinery-texas-cut.jpg The oil …
Detroit is the site of a neoliberal experiment that's already being repeated elsewhere, writes Chris Grove, with unpayable debt used to force the privatization of public services and the terminate democratic power and accountability. But as the city's poor find themselves cur off from water, a new, wider conception of human rights is emerging from the wreckage.
Water is a human right! Detroit's lessons for our common future Chris Grove | 4th August 2015 News Water Cities USA Human Rights Politics Finance detroit-water-cut.jpg Detroit is the site of a …
According to Goldman Sachs US home-owners will find it's technically and economically viable to go off-grid by 2033, writes Michael Mariotte. The big losers will be fossil and nuclear power generators.
Goldman Sachs - the US's solar future Michael Mariotte GreenWorld | 25th March 2014 News Energy Nuclear Power Renewables USA germansolarcity.png A recent residential development in Germany with …
With its 800 bases in 80 countries, the US's global military domination is often seen as an altruistic exercise to ensure world peace and harmony, writes Pete Dolack. It is, of course, the opposite: the essential underpinning of the US's predatory economic power, always ready to strike down any challenge to the rights and privileges of its corporate conquerors and financial oligarchy.
… Pete Dolack | 22nd April 2016 News Military Economics USA Corporations Human Rights …
The TTIP 'trade agreement between the US and the EU would devastate EU farms as it opens them up to competition from larger, less regulated US operations, writes Dario Sarmadi. This is the conclusion of a new study to be published tomorrow, which also finds that small-scale farmers would be the first to go - with the big winners the large agri-food corporations.
… 2016 News Trade Farming Food EU USA GMOs Economics Health german-farms-cut.jpg The TTIP …