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Archives: Energy
Trump Finally Ditches the Iran Nuclear Deal, but at What Cost?
Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | - - President Trump is set to decertify the Iran nuclear deal, as reported by the global news media. That such a decision was coming was…
Top Ten Renewable Energy surprises in New IEA Report
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A new International Energy Agency report contains some startling findings about solar energy dominance and its future. !. Renewables comprised 66% of all…
Rouhani: Ten Trumps couldn’t scrap Iran Deal
TeleSur | - - "The nuclear deal was our moral victory,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said. Amid speculation that U.S. President Donald Trump is to “decertify” the Iran Nuclear Deal next week,…
Industrial Mercury (including Coal) & the Communities it has Poisoned
By Joshua Sokol | (Mosaic) | - - From 1932 to 1968, hundreds of tonnes of mercury seeped into the clear waters of Minamata Bay, Japan, causing health and environmental problems still…
Was Ayatollah Khamenei right about Washington? Trump Reneges
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump appears likely to attempt to derail the Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA]), next week. The deal curbs…
Disrupting Climate Change
By Jules Kortenhorst | (Project Syndicate) | - - Despite a surge of apocalyptic weather and fears of runaway climate change, there is still time to stem global warming and save the…
The Gasoline Car will be History before you Know it
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The world transportation sector is a major source of carbon dioxide emissions, heat trapping gas that warmed up the Caribbean and contributed to…
EV Game-Changer: China dumping Gasoline Cars even Sooner
By Zoran Radosavljevic | EURACTIV.com China announced on Thursday (28 September) it would start phasing out fossil fuel cars and set a 10% minimum quota of “new energy vehicles” in 2019, in…
Kurdish Independence: SecState Tillerson opposes, Sen Schumer Supports
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - According to the Kurdish news site Rudaw, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson weighed in on the Kurdistan referendum on independence from Iraq, held…
Trump blasts Iran for backing Syria, ignores Russia, Praises Saudis
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump more or less threatened to wipe out the 25 million people of North Korea in his speech at the UN. Then he…
Those 90 Companies that Caused Climate Crisis? They Should Pay for It
By Sarah van Gelder | Yes! Magazine | - - The companies responsible for the climate crisis should cover the costs of fighting wildfires and recovering from hurricanes. Pacific Northwest forests are…
Floridians with Solar Inverters had Electricity after Irma & other Green energy success stories
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - After Hurricane Irma in Florida, millions have been without electricity. But those Floridians who had solar panels plus an inverter or a Tesla…
Can Yosef Abramowitz make Solar Power Bloom in Fossil Fuels-Addicted Israel?
i24 News | (Video News Report) | - - i24 News: "Yosef Abramowitz-Captain Sunshine-Solar Energy Pioneer" from Wikipedia: "Abramowitz was born in 1964. He lived in Israel as a child from 1969–1972,…
How solar power can protect US military from threats to the grid
By Joshua M. Pearce | The Conversation | - - As the U.S. military increases its use of drones in surveillance and combat overseas, the danger posed by a threat back at…
AT&T and Verizon Need to Hang Up On Fossil Fuels
By Todd Larsen | Otherwords.org | - - One text at a time, America's largest telecommunications companies are fueling climate change. Smartphones are a huge part of our lives. We use them…
What will Iran do if Trump tears up the Nuclear Agreement?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Recently I was asked whether, if Trump succeeded in undermining the Joint Plan of Collective Action (JCPOA), the Iran nuclear deal, whether Iran…
On 9/11: How we slighted the real Threat, Climate Change, and Hyped Terrorism
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US is commemorating the victims of September 11 today at the same time it is mourning the serial devastation that struck Texas…
People w/ Electric Cars aren’t trapped in Miami Beach with no Gasoline
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Some people in South Florida are finding it difficult to flee Irma because they cannot fill their tanks up with gasoline. Many gas…