Spread the loveFarmer protests have exploded in multiple different countries against the EU’s green agenda and the flooding of markets with cheap grain from Ukraine, which is bankrupting the agricultural industry. While the EU continues to pour millions of euros…

Spread the loveFarmers’ ire and a right-wing surge is testing the EU’s climate goals. And the Greens that backed them are teetering. BRUSSELS — The green wave is over.  The parties that roared to their best-ever results in 2019’s EU…

Spread the loveUS thermal coal exporters recorded more than $5 billion in overseas sales in 2023, shipping upwards of 32.5 million metric tons of the high-polluting power fuel, according to Reuters, citing data from ship-tracking firm Kpler. These coal export earnings…

Spread the loveThe Environment Agency has updated its net zero roadmap, pushing back its net zero target date from 2030 to between 2045 and 2050. The Environment Agency, an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the department for environment, food…

Spread the loveThe South Dakota Public Utilities Commission told the utility that the “premature closure of these [coal] plants adds to the uncertainty of electrical generation resource adequacy in the upper Midwest.” Some energy experts call the government’s policies “irrational.”…

Spread the loveThese days, ESG investments have lost their luster given high interest rates, political backlash, and greenwashing scrutiny. In 2021 during the pandemic boom, U.S. sustainable funds hit a record $358 billion in assets, up from $95 billion in 2017.…

Spread the loveInteresting move and office location in yet another election year.  In 2022, Joe Biden appointed John Podesta as the “Clean Energy Czar,” essentially giving him control over doling out the $326 billion in Green New Deal, aka “Inflation Reduction Act,”…

Spread the loveThe Biden administration’s decision to delay the approval of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the United States may have marked a major victory for environmental advocacy groups in both the US and Europe (while effectively punishing Texas – the world’s 3rd…

Spread the loveProtests sweeping the continent take their cue from tractor demos that delivered resounding success at the polls in the Netherlands. The farmers travelled across Europe to make their presence known in Brussels, but they needn’t have bothered. The…

Spread the loveChina approved 106GW of coal-fired power stations last year, the biggest increase since 2015, a report finds.China approved 106GW of coal-fired power stations last year, the biggest increase since 2015, a report finds.The report’s authors, Finland’s Centre for Research on…

Spread the loveGermany’s plans to base its energy transition on a fleet of hydrogen-fuelled power plants may fall victim to the country’s growing economic malaise, leading to a continued reliance on coal, a senior business figure warns.Sigfried Russwurm, president of…

Spread the loveThe Biden administration has whined for months about the public’s negative views on the economy, arguing that people are operating on “false perceptions influenced by right-wing media.” Most Americans have figured out that government officials and the corporate…

Spread the love“Nothing is more uncertain than the general public,” the Roman orator Cicero said, and it is as true now as it was in 62 BCE. The next US presidential election is still almost 10 months away, on 5…