WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded more than $6.6 million in grants to eight universities in support of black carbon research. Black carbon is the sooty black material emitted from diesel-powered engines and vehicles, industries like brick kilns and coke ovens, traditional cookstoves, and other sources that burn fossil fuels or [...]
The Clinton Climate Change Initiative has announced its endorsement of open-market financing of energy conservation enhancements for business and homeowners. Although attention has centered on San Francisco and Los Angeles, they aren’t the only ones involved. The tiny Town of Lantana, Florida, was among the first in the nation to launch a commercial energy financing [...]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called today for a “clean energy revolution” to help the estimated three billion people that lack modern power and urged countries to recognize the impact that energy security has on all aspects of development. “Three billion people rely on charcoal or wood for cooking and heating. They are energy-poor. And energy poverty [...]
Too often, brilliant green ideas stay on paper. This year for the fifth time, the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge is helping some of them actually reach the general public. The global competition encourages people to think creatively about fighting climate change. Previous winners have gone on to achieve success with their innovative products and services, thanks [...]
Geneva – In many cities air pollution is reaching levels that threaten people’s health according to an unprecedented compilation of air quality data released today by WHO. The information includes data from nearly 1100 cities across 91 countries, including capital cities and cities with more than 100 000 residents. Over 2 million people die from [...]
The United Nations climate change chief today called on governments taking part in negotiations this week to urgently scale up their efforts to combat the problem ahead of a UN-led conference on the issue starting next month in Durban, South Africa. The preparatory negotiations, which started today in Panama City, are the last formal negotiations [...]
Boulder Colorado—Although the burning of natural gas emits far less carbon dioxide than coal, a new study concludes that a greater reliance on natural gas would fail to significantly slow down climate change. Coal, natural gas, and climate: Shifting from coal to natural gas would have limited impacts on climate, new research indicates. If methane [...]
Louisville, Kentucky – Today, Kentucky Utilities and Louisville Gas & Electric made a landmark announcement to retire three coal plants in Kentucky – including the hotly-contested, massively polluting Cane Run Plant in Louisville. The announcement set the retirement date for 2016. Since 2003, the Sierra Club has worked on an extensive organizing campaign targeting the [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)has produced and made available a rich data set showing what happens, second-by-second, when clouds pass over a solar power installation. Seventeen measurement stations near Hawaii’s Honolulu International Airport on the island of Oahu collected data at 1-second intervals over the course of a year. [...]
Three-year series of scientific missions from Arctic to Antarctic produces new views of atmospheric chemistry NSF’s Gulfstream V aircraft, or HIAPER, in Anchorage, Alaska, during a HIPPO mission. Credit and Larger Version View YouTube videos of the HIPPO V’s flight plan and Harvard scientist Bruce Daube. A three-year series of research flights from the Arctic [...]
Nuclear power plants operating in 31 states provide electricity to one of every five U.S. homes and businesses. The following is a summary of U.S. nuclear power plant performance during Hurricane Irene. North Carolina: Brunswick 1 and 2 – temporarily reduced power output to 65 percent of electric generating capacity. Virginia: Surry 1 and 2 [...]
Climate Science References for the Campaign Trail Given that a number of presidential hopefuls have been voicing their opinions recently on climate science, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) thought it would be helpful to provide a short list of authoritative scientific assessments on climate science, a relevant statement from 18 scientific societies on the [...]
EIA reports a 3.9-percent increase in U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 2010. U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of fossil fuels were 5,638 million metric tons carbon dioxide (MMTCO2) in 2010, an increase of 3.9 percent from the 2009 level, according to Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2010, an online analysis released today by [...]
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