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Valero Energy Corporation announced it would be idle or shut down its Benicia refinery in California, just the latest in the state's fossil fuel company's exit. [emphasis, links added] Six months ago, Phillips 66 announced the closure of its Los Angeles-area refinery by the end of the year — and then dated through October — in the months leading up to that, Chevron announced the move of its headquarters from San Ramon, California to Houston. After the two refineries closed, it is unclear where California can find more gasoline and other finished petroleum products, such as jet fuel, to meet…
It usually falls in the middle of the rainy season in Los Angeles County in early January. Moisture coaxes the brown landscape into green tones, but not in 2024. In the last six months of the year, only 0.16 inches of rain fell downtown, with the area at about four inches normal. From July to October, there is no measurable rainfall at all. The burning conditions are ripe. The barbecued sage provides fire with a fire that is enough to devour trees, houses and the entire community. On January 7, 2025, a fire broke out in the canyon outside Malibu.…
Transcript: Learning new deals – and being a newcomer to the job site – can be hard…especially when no one else is there looking like you. Native American women working in solar energy may know this feeling well. Hayden: “They may be the only women, they may be the only brown people… in the installers they are going to work with.” Alicia Hayden and Red Cloud Renewable are home-led nonprofits located in South Dakota. The team conducts a free solar workforce training program, which includes training programs specifically for Native American women. For graduate Jacinta's goggles, learning with other Indigenous…
94-year-old left-wing billionaire George Soros has set up a blueprint for his huge open society foundation and fueled by $32 billion to continue to realize his dark vision worldwide under his more extreme son Alex. [emphasis, links added] Part of this vision involves using the evolving ghost of climate change as a springboard to drive the world into a new world order. Elder Soros envisioned a utopia prohibiting fossil fuels, and the existence of daily human beings is regulated. The 2020 common pandemic provides what he calls a “revolutionary moment” to recognize which social control can be achieved. MRC Business,…
The Trump administration is reportedly carrying out the first wave of layoffs in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), mainly focusing on environmental justice plan workers. [emphasis, links added] Assistant Deputy Administrator Travis Voyles wrote in an internal memo Monday that the EPA will start cutting the rest of its environmental justice staff on July 31 and review a copy of the notice, according to reports from Politico's E&E News and Bloomberg Law. “This action is to align our workforce with the current and future needs of the agency and ensure the effective operation of our plans.” Voyles reportedly wrote in…
A new executive order called “Protecting U.S. energy from national excessive energy” directs U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to “determine all state and local laws…bearing burdens are …being burdens that are not restricted by federal law or other unrestricted identification, development, development, site selection, production or use of domestic energy within 60 days. [emphasis, links added] EO specifically mentioned the climate “ransomware laws” in California, New York and Vermont, especially against legal obstacles to hydrocarbon producers (coal, gas and oil), guiding AG Bondi to recommend stopping the “presidential or legislative action” required for law enforcement. Such actions that the White…
The discovery of green leaf mosses dating back to the Middle Ages (MWP) has been found embedded in Antarctic glacier ice and is now “permanently covered in snow” and “no evidence of melting.” [emphasis, links added] This affirms a warm MWP, “The summer melt during the MWP is bigger than today.” According to a new study, it has been found that intact leaves and glacial ice cubes (BCG) with 10 to 13 mm long leaves in length were found in Antarctica Victoria. The surface of the glacier has not yet been melted. Instead, it is permanently covered with snow. “It…
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the CDC Center issued an emergency alert about dengue, a common pain and sometimes fatal mosquito-borne disease in tropical and subtropical areas around the world. According to the CDC, about 3,500 travelers from the United States signed contracts for dengue abroad in 2024, an increase of 84% from 2023. “This trend is expected to continue,” the agency noted, noting that Florida, California and New York may see the biggest surfing of the year under the order. On Thursday, the UK Health Security Agency issued a similar warning, noting that there…
Transcript: In a self-storage facility in Egg Harbor, New Jersey, a row of warehouses of a row of storage units are covered with solar panels. Steve Potter has additional space storage, which owns the facility. He said buildings such as storage facilities, large shops and warehouses often have huge open roofs that are perfect for solar energy. In urban areas, using this space for urban areas where solar energy may be scarce. Porter: “You don't put solar panels on the diet floor. You're using spaces that you've already used for something else.” His company has installed solar panels on more…
In an article on January 28 (a week of President Trump’s second term), I urged it to “clear climate scams from federal websites.” Trump 1.0 has done a very poor job of controlling communications on sites such as the EPA, the Department of Energy and the Department of Transportation. [emphasis, links added] Did they do better this time? They have certainly taken some important steps to address this in the first few weeks of the new administration. For example, on April 15, the Guardian and the work titled “Green Group Subt Trump Administration Deleted on Climate Web Pages.” It seems…