And now the fossil fuels industry brings “plastitar” to our oceans — the bottom line is that, whether it’s oil or plastics, the less fossil fuels products we use the better…
From Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/plastitar-is-the-unholy-spawn-of-oil-spills-and-microplastics/?
Good news: here’s the final nail in the coffin for the bogus argument that the power grid needs fossil fuels-fired power plants to backup renewables…
From OPD: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/06/07/oregon-portland-general-electric-builds-nations-first-large-scale-wind-solar-battery-facility/
Montana is not only sunny, and a great place for solar energy production, we’re also windy. With more wind farms popping up it’s a good time to review the things that kill far more birds than wind turbines…
From electrek: https://electrek.co/2020/10/29/birds-wind-turbines-trump/
We won’t be fooled by euphemisms: oil field wastewater is highly toxic, even if renamed “produced water”…
From Inside Climate News: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22052022/california-water-risks-produced-water/?
From our Man-caused climate change section: It’s not enough to make fossil fuel use more efficient, we need to stop using fossil fuels whenever we can…
An interesting read from Inside Climate News: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14042022/inside-clean-energy-efficiency/?
Opinion: NorthWestern Energy is all hat and no cattle when it comes to helping Montana move to a smart and stable energy future…
More from Lucy Hochschartner and the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/04/12/northwestern-should-release-a-real-energy-plan-and-abandon-fossil-fuels/?
From the bad idea department: capturing carbon from the atmosphere but then using it to help get oil out of the ground…
From Inside Climate News: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06042022/occidental-is-eyeing-californias-clean-fuels-market-to-fund-texas-carbon-removal-plant/?
A vital read here: ignoring the anti-renewables propaganda, we can realistically move to renewables even faster than we are and…well, stop the burning…
From Bill McKibben and The New Yorker: ehttps://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/in-a-world-on-fire-stop-burning-things
Another media failure: the untold story of Big Oil greed and high gas prices (and how Big Oil is sitting on millions of acres of cheap leases that they could have drilled on long ago, and yet they still want more)…
More here, from Press Run: https://pressrun.media/p/hysterical-gas-price-coverage-gives?s=r
New study confirms fossil fuels giants are all hat and no cattle when it comes to helping move to a smart energy future…
Time for the fossil fuels giants to clean up their acts. More, from The Guardian, here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/18/greenwashing-pr-advertising-oil-firms-exxon-chevron-shell-bp?