Spread the loveDon’t believe the hype that governments are phasing out fossil fuels. The COP28 climate confab in Dubai didn’t end with white smoke on Wednesday, but Biden climate envoy John Kerry is nonetheless singing hallelujah after nearly 200 countries agreed to…

Spread the loveThe world is sliding into a copper deficit over the next couple of years as one of the world’s largest copper mines was forced to shutter operations while demand for the refined metal remains elevated due to renewable…

Spread the loveUnited Arab Emirates brokers a compromise that calls for a clean energy shift to accelerate this decade. DUBAI—More than 190 governments at the United Nations climate conference approved an agreement Wednesday calling for the world to transition away from fossil fuels, sending an…

Spread the loveCNN Travel: “Holidaymakers should prepare to change their travel habits now, before this change is forced upon them.”  “The negative impacts of tourism on the environment have become so severe that some are suggesting drastic changes to our travel…

Spread the loveLess than a week after Elon Musk unveiled his apocalypse-surviving, Porsche-out-accelerating, bulletproof CyberTruck, Ford’s EV effort is crashing on the Biden-administration ignited fire of unaffordability and high costs. Having signaled in October during its Q3 earnings call plans to…

Spread the loveExclusive New Statesman analysis of climate and trade data exposes how much the UK’s net-zero agenda depends on cheap foreign coal power, particularly from China. The UK’s top four trade partners are Germany, the US, China and the Netherlands. All four of these countries have a significantly larger…

Spread the loveBurdensome permitting processes and the need for extra grid connections and power capacity are slowing down the installation of EV charging stations across Europe, threatening the EU’s ambition to rely on transport electrification as a pillar of its…

Spread the loveThe green energy subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) have been justified by the Biden Administration as a booster of U.S. economic growth and jobs.  But when the subsidies are tallied and the overall impacts evaluated, the IRA is a…

Spread the loveBy Kenza Bryan in Dubai One day in late October, leaders from more than a dozen towns across Liberia’s Gbi-Doru rainforest crammed into a whitewashed, tin-roofed church. They had gathered to hear for the first time about a deal…

Spread the loveby Bill Wirtz Nearly 300 votes against, only 207 in favor: Those were the final results of a vote in the European Parliament on the “Sustainable Use of Pesticides” directive, the landmark legislation of the European Union’s agriculture…

Spread the loveThis essay is based on testimony delivered November 29, 2023, before the Congressional Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing and Critical Materials, House Committee on Energy and Commerce. It is often useful to contrast rhetoric with reality. The phrase, an “energy transition,” the…

Spread the loveGlobal emissions from the combustion of hydrocarbons such as oil and gas are set for another record this year, the Global Carbon Budget report has warned. “Fossil CO2 emissions are falling in some regions, including Europe and the USA, but…

Spread the loveProterra, which President Joe Biden once said was “making me look good,” sold hundreds of electric buses to municipalities across North America. Every transit district Just The News spoke with, except one, has inoperable buses awaiting repairs. Across…