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Transcript: Many young people are eager to help the environment, from fighting climate change to protecting endangered species. But turning that passion into a career can be difficult, especially if you don't know anyone else working in the environmental field or lack the resources to obtain professional training. Castellino: “We work with a lot of newcomers and immigrants, and their families tell them, you know, look, we need to make ends meet…so they don't necessarily have that option,” I wanted to work in a sustainable business. A career that continues to grow. Lauren Castelino is the founder of the Green…
From the Daily Skeptic by Will Jones Households were paying the equivalent of £2m an hour to gas power stations today after low winds and frigid temperatures left grid bosses scrambling to keep the power on. this telegraph There is more. As cold weather sweeps across the southeast, the National Energy System Operator (Neso) has warned that power supplies are expected to be particularly tight between 4pm and 7pm. The crisis has forced grid operators to pay huge fees to natural gas power plant owners to keep them running. The cost will ultimately be borne by households and businesses through…
From the Daily Caller Nick PopeContributor President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly considering executive action to protect gas furnaces from regulatory overreach, Reuters reported on Tuesday. According to Reuters, the executive order under consideration would also cover other gas appliances, including heaters, after Democrats and the Biden administration spent years advancing regulations limiting their use. Details of the action being considered are unclear, but the policy could be consistent with a push by Congress to cut funding to prevent state and local governments from pursuing gas appliance phase-out policies. “This is significant when it takes a White House order to prevent…
Roger Kayaza I recently published an article describing how Jennifer Hernandez and Lauren Teixeira’s groundbreaking journal article titled “It’s Time to Reset California’s Climate Leadership” aligns with the New York State Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (Climate Act) Implementation related. I agree with the author that both states need to reevaluate their climate policies until states can “reduce emissions while ensuring housing, an affordable cost of living, and good jobs for all.” This article highlights the measures needed to reduce emissions from the transport sector to achieve climate nirvana. California Climate Leadership California was the first state in the…
From Climate Warehouse Mark Morano https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/jpmorgan-says-leave-net-zero-banking-alliance-2025-01-07 Simon Jessop The last of the Big Six U.S. banks to exit the group Says he remains 'focused' on pragmatic climate solutions Exit comes as U.S. political pressure mounts LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) said on Tuesday it would withdraw from the Net Zero Banking Alliance, the latest U.S. bank to pull out of the industry's largest climate alliance amid rising political pressure in the United States. The move means six of the biggest banks in the world's largest economy – Goldman Sachs (GS.N), opens in new tab, Wells…
Republican Rep. August Pfluger introduced a new bill Friday that would prevent the president from imposing a nationwide ban on fracking without congressional consent. [emphasis, links added] Pfluger's Protecting America's Energy Production Act would explicitly require Congress to act to impose a moratorium on fracking and prevent the president from doing so directly. Some Democrats have called for a de facto or legal moratorium on fracking, including Vice President Kamala Harris, who ran for president in the 2020 election cycle. “Congress believes that states should maintain primacy in the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on…
The tragic wildfires currently raging in Los Angeles have reignited calls to blame climate change for the disaster. As articles in outlets such as Axios, Newsweek and the BBC demonstrate, there is a growing tendency to link every fire, flood or storm to climate change. Yet a closer look at history, meteorology and land management reveals that these narratives are often oversimplified by poorly informed journalists and fail to address more immediate, actionable causes. The headlines must be separated from the science to understand these wildfires in their proper context. Like many fires before them, the current fires are largely…
What is the difference between weather and climate? Let’s ask the expert government National Weather Service. [emphasis, links added] weather Defined as the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, involving variables such as temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and air pressure. climate Defined as the expected frequency of specific states of the atmosphere, oceans, and land, including variables such as temperature, salinity, soil moisture, wind speed and direction, and current strength and direction. It covers weather over time and also involves interactions between components of the Earth system (e.g., atmospheric composition, volcanic eruptions, changes in…
Bottom line: Models are all over the place regarding wind speeds, but all agree on an unfavorable westerly wind direction. This means our winds will travel over mountains, causing the wind to ripple and randomly reach the surface. Do not launch during brief periods of high winds as you may become trapped in the wind tunnel.Today’s trendy recipe: Today’s recipe has more Basura-inspired ingredients. 1. 60 knot SSW wind blowing over us from near cutoff low at about 18,000 feet. 2. This creates a surface low near the central Sea of Cortez, which generates strong northerly winds from San Felipe…
California's long-delayed high-speed rail plan has a new destination: Las Vegas. The original plan, approved by voters in 2008, was to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles. But after delays and massive cost overruns, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced that the “bullet train” would no longer connect the two cities. [emphasis, links added] Instead, Democrats claim they will build rail between rural Central Valley towns where there is no consumer demand. Then-President Donald Trump canceled $1 billion in federal spending planned for the project over Newsom's objections. President Joe Biden restored funding. But at the same time, a new private-sector-led…