Bevi CEO explains how an idea for a product grew into a sustainable startup
5 years 7 months ago
Environmental Defense Fund
New York Bill Addresses Climate Change and Health Justice
5 years 7 months ago
Written by Moms Clean Air Force
This was written by Greta Moran. It originally appeared on Grist: Walter Cooper, a labor union leader, stood on the steps of New York City Hall to fight for new kind of contract. “We need a contract for a future of our state and for...
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Bevi CEO explains how an idea for a product grew into a sustainable startup
5 years 7 months ago
Reducing impact on the planet isn’t an afterthought at Bevi – it’s the startup’s core business. Co-founder and CEO of Bevi, Sean Grundy, wanted to work for a company where sustainability was woven into the business model from the start, and shareholder and environmental values were one in the same. So, Sean chose to start […]
Yesh Pavlik Slenk
Bevi CEO explains how an idea for a product grew into a sustainable startup
5 years 7 months ago
Yesh Pavlik Slenk
Bevi CEO explains how an idea for a product grew into a sustainable startup
5 years 7 months ago
Reducing impact on the planet isn’t an afterthought at Bevi – it’s the startup’s core business. Co-founder and CEO of Bevi, Sean Grundy, wanted to work for a company where sustainability was woven into the business model from the start, and shareholder and environmental values were one in the same. So, Sean chose to start […]
Yesh Pavlik Slenk
Bevi CEO explains how an idea for a product grew into a sustainable startup
5 years 7 months ago
Reducing impact on the planet isn’t an afterthought at Bevi – it’s the startup’s core business. Co-founder and CEO of Bevi, Sean Grundy, wanted to work for a company where sustainability was woven into the business model from the start, and shareholder and environmental values were one in the same. So, Sean chose to start […]
Yesh Pavlik Slenk
Bevi CEO explains how an idea for a product grew into a sustainable startup
5 years 7 months ago
Reducing impact on the planet isn’t an afterthought at Bevi it’s the startup’s core business. Co-founder and CEO of Bevi, Sean Grundy, wanted to work for a company where sustainability was woven into the business model from the start, and shareholder and environmental values were one in the same. So, Sean chose to start fresh […]
Yesh Pavlik Slenk
Delta Dispatches: Restoring the Gulf for Birds and People
5 years 7 months ago
Welcome to Delta Dispatches with hosts, Simone Maloz and Jacques Hebert! On today’s show Kara Lankford, Director of Gulf Coast Restoration at National Audubon Society, stops by to about Audubon’s latest Comprehensive Gulf Restoration Plan. The report highlights projects and programs critical to helping the region. Later on the show, Erik Johnson, Director of Bird Conservation for Audubon, Louisiana, joins the show to talk about the elusive Black Rail and why coastal restoration is so important for shorebirds. Listen ...
Read The Full StoryThe post Delta Dispatches: Restoring the Gulf for Birds and People appeared first on Restore the Mississippi River Delta.
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Delta Dispatches: Restoring the Gulf for Birds and People
5 years 7 months ago
rchauvin
Delta Dispatches: Restoring the Gulf for Birds and People
5 years 7 months ago
Welcome to Delta Dispatches with hosts, Simone Maloz and Jacques Hebert! On today’s show Kara Lankford, Director of Gulf Coast Restoration at National Audubon Society, stops by to about Audubon’s latest Comprehensive Gulf Restoration Plan. The report highlights projects and programs critical to helping the region. Later on the show, Erik Johnson, Director of Bird Conservation for Audubon, Louisiana, joins the show to talk about the elusive Black Rail and why coastal restoration is so important for shorebirds. Listen ...
Read The Full StoryThe post Delta Dispatches: Restoring the Gulf for Birds and People appeared first on Restore the Mississippi River Delta.
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With satellites and supply chains, global brands take aim at deforestation
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Record-warm oceans: How worried should we be?
5 years 7 months ago
Record-warm oceans: How worried should we be?
The world’s oceans are heating up. Scientists have found that 2018 was the hottest year ever recorded for our oceans, and that they are warming even faster than previously thought.
When documenting global warming trends, we often focus on air temperature. But the oceans actually absorb more than 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by human emissions of greenhouse gases. So if we really want to know how much our planet is warming up, we look to the oceans.
And what the oceans are telling us is alarming.
EDF Action: Tell Congress to act on climate change nowUsing multiple measurement devices, scientists from across the globe found that the amount of heat in the upper part of the world’s oceans in 2018 was the highest ever recorded [PDF] since observations began in the 1950s. In fact, the past five years are the warmest years on record and the increase in ocean heat has been accelerating since the 1990s.
Scientists also found that the oceans are warming faster than data previously published in a 2013 landmark report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Studies now show that in recent decades, the rate of warming in the upper ocean – the top 2,000 meter or 6,500 feet layer of the ocean – was about 40 percent higher than the earlier IPCC estimates showed. The new data, made possible by vast improvements to ocean heat records in recent years, is also consistent with model projections of ocean warming.
So how worried should we be?
Why warmer oceans matterRising ocean temperatures are a major concern for societies and ecosystems across the globe. Hotter oceans lead to:
- rising sea levels when water molecules expand from increasing temperatures, and then erode coasts, threaten infrastructure and contaminate freshwater with intruding saltwater.
- heavier downpours and widespread flooding because more ocean water evaporates as temperatures increase, supplying the atmosphere with more moisture.
- more destructive hurricanes because of the increased moisture in the air and higher sea levels that worsen storm surges.
- dying coral reefs as the corals’ colorful algae, their main food source, leave the corals due to heat stress. This bleaches corals of their vivid colors, causing them to starve, while affecting the survival of thousands of species that live in the reefs.
- fish moving poleward because their current habitats are becoming too warm, disrupting fisheries.
Recent scientific reports have concluded that our greenhouse gase emissions so far have not yet committed us to future warming levels that can cause catastrophic climate impacts. That is great news.
There are, in fact, countless reasons to feel hopeful. Numerous countries are reducing greenhouse gas emissions while growing their economies. Renewable energy sources are increasingly more affordable. And new technologies, such as carbon dioxide removal, are emerging.
Oceans are warning us, and we need to act now. As disconcerting as this oceans news has been, there’s still time.
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Trump Administration Ends Talks With California, Presses Ahead With Clean Car Standards Rollback
5 years 7 months ago
Written by Moms Clean Air Force
This post was written by Martha Roberts and Erin Murphy, attorneys for EDF. The Trump administration announced today that it will end negotiations with California and press ahead with its attempts to roll back America’s successful Clean Car Standards. Rolling back the Clean Car...
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FirstEnergy: The Energizer bailout bunny
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FirstEnergy: The Energizer bailout bunny
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FirstEnergy just declared a net profit of $981 million in 2018, and still it pounds the drum anew for bailouts.
Thursday February 21, 2019 - Edition #61
Yet the CEO, claiming that FirstEnergy’s growth strategy now “focuses on re-building and upgrading long-distance transmission lines,” seems to forget that the company also has a history of not doing transmission well.
About 15 years ago, FirstEnergy’s mistakes led to the biggest blackout in North American history, which forced 50 million people to lose power, contributed to at least 11 deaths, and cost an estimated $6 billion.
To quote Alanis Morissette, “Isn’t it ironic?” Why wires? Jones’ preference for transmission projects may reflect what a new report found: Utilities earn billions of extra dollars on such long-distance wires because the companies face virtually no competition and the projects receive little scrutiny. Corporate cronyism Conservative politicians also lament FirstEnergy’s return to the bailout trough. In the Columbus Dispatch, Ken Blackwell, Ohio’s former Republican Secretary of State, calls it “corporate cronyism” or “pay-to-play.”
The pay was FirstEnergy giving $737,000 to Ohio candidates. The play was the legislature, on its first day, creating a standing committee on power generation to advance a nuclear bailout and help out FirstEnergy.
The conservative Blackwell says the utility giant offered “sizable campaign donations to candidates hoping to gather up political allies to support its demand for $300 million a year to keep its plants operational.” He argues the scheme will “saddle Ohio’s electricity customers with hundreds of millions in costs they don’t need to pay.”
He concludes: “Implementing bad public policy based on political donations is crony capitalism at its worst. Ohio has had enough of that.”
Well said. Great principles Not every utility begs constantly. Consider the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which recently decided to close two old coal plants and save its customers some $1 billion.
This decision demonstrates the power of finance over politics since the Trump administration—which tore up the Paris Climate Accord and changed federal rules to increase both costs and pollution to American consumers—appointed four of TVA’s seven directors.
In a Frank Capra moment, TVA embraced the “great principles” of free markets and “standing up for the little guy.” Here’s hoping Ohio officials also will do the right thing. FirstEnergy Solutions doublespeak FirstEnergy Solutions, the bankrupt power provider, has closed nearly half of its coal capacity, including units 1 and 2 at the giant Bruce Mansfield facility in Beaver County, PA.
Yet to explain such actions, a utility spokesman – in classic corporate garbled-speak –claimed that the recent deactivations were made because those units “had been operating at extremely limited capacity since January 2018.”
As comic Keegan-Michael Kay might translate: “These old and dirty power plants were losing tons of money, and we’d close a lot more of them, and save consumers a lot more money, if we weren’t getting a $600-million bailout.” --> --> Copyright © 2019 Environmental Defense Fund |Energy, All rights reserved.
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FirstEnergy certainly seems to have endless energy for seeking bailouts.
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) in 2016 provided the utility with a $600-million blank check (a decision EDF and its allies are challenging before the Ohio Supreme Court). A bankruptcy judge allowed a FirstEnergy subsidiary to shed $1.2 billion of debt. And the Trump administration provided massive tax cuts to utilities.
The result: FirstEnergy just declared a net profit of $981 million in 2018. According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, CEO Chuck Jones was “jubilant” with the financial results.
You might think FirstEnergy would be satiated, but, no, it pounds the drum anew for bailouts, lobbying Ohio legislators for at least $300 million annually to support uneconomic power plants. Despite enjoying investment-grade credit, the company even wants two more years of that PUCO blank check.
There must be a name for such pleadings. Might it be “greed?”
Yet the CEO, claiming that FirstEnergy’s growth strategy now “focuses on re-building and upgrading long-distance transmission lines,” seems to forget that the company also has a history of not doing transmission well.
About 15 years ago, FirstEnergy’s mistakes led to the biggest blackout in North American history, which forced 50 million people to lose power, contributed to at least 11 deaths, and cost an estimated $6 billion.
To quote Alanis Morissette, “Isn’t it ironic?” Why wires? Jones’ preference for transmission projects may reflect what a new report found: Utilities earn billions of extra dollars on such long-distance wires because the companies face virtually no competition and the projects receive little scrutiny. Corporate cronyism Conservative politicians also lament FirstEnergy’s return to the bailout trough. In the Columbus Dispatch, Ken Blackwell, Ohio’s former Republican Secretary of State, calls it “corporate cronyism” or “pay-to-play.”
The pay was FirstEnergy giving $737,000 to Ohio candidates. The play was the legislature, on its first day, creating a standing committee on power generation to advance a nuclear bailout and help out FirstEnergy.
The conservative Blackwell says the utility giant offered “sizable campaign donations to candidates hoping to gather up political allies to support its demand for $300 million a year to keep its plants operational.” He argues the scheme will “saddle Ohio’s electricity customers with hundreds of millions in costs they don’t need to pay.”
He concludes: “Implementing bad public policy based on political donations is crony capitalism at its worst. Ohio has had enough of that.”
Well said. Great principles Not every utility begs constantly. Consider the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which recently decided to close two old coal plants and save its customers some $1 billion.
This decision demonstrates the power of finance over politics since the Trump administration—which tore up the Paris Climate Accord and changed federal rules to increase both costs and pollution to American consumers—appointed four of TVA’s seven directors.
In a Frank Capra moment, TVA embraced the “great principles” of free markets and “standing up for the little guy.” Here’s hoping Ohio officials also will do the right thing. FirstEnergy Solutions doublespeak FirstEnergy Solutions, the bankrupt power provider, has closed nearly half of its coal capacity, including units 1 and 2 at the giant Bruce Mansfield facility in Beaver County, PA.
Yet to explain such actions, a utility spokesman – in classic corporate garbled-speak –claimed that the recent deactivations were made because those units “had been operating at extremely limited capacity since January 2018.”
As comic Keegan-Michael Kay might translate: “These old and dirty power plants were losing tons of money, and we’d close a lot more of them, and save consumers a lot more money, if we weren’t getting a $600-million bailout.” --> --> Copyright © 2019 Environmental Defense Fund |Energy, All rights reserved.
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The oil industry’s wastewater is one of the biggest challenges facing Permian producers
5 years 7 months ago
Scott Anderson
The oil industry’s wastewater is one of the biggest challenges facing Permian producers
5 years 7 months ago
This post originally appeared in the Midland Reporter Telegram. Nowhere is the current energy boom more apparent than in Midland, Texas. But with this dramatic growth in oil and gas also comes a growing amount of wastewater. Texas oil and gas companies alone produce over 300 billion gallons of wastewater a year, twice as much […]
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Scott Anderson
The oil industry’s wastewater is one of the biggest challenges facing Permian producers
5 years 7 months ago
This post originally appeared in the Midland Reporter Telegram. Nowhere is the current energy boom more apparent than in Midland, Texas. But with this dramatic growth in oil and gas also comes a growing amount of wastewater. Texas oil and gas companies alone produce over 300 billion gallons of wastewater a year, twice as much […]
Scott Anderson
The oil industry’s wastewater is one of the biggest challenges facing Permian producers
5 years 7 months ago
This post originally appeared in the Midland Reporter Telegram. Nowhere is the current energy boom more apparent than in Midland, Texas. But with this dramatic growth in oil and gas also comes a growing amount of wastewater. Texas oil and gas companies alone produce over 300 billion gallons of wastewater a year, twice as much […]
The post The oil industry’s wastewater is one of the biggest challenges facing Permian producers appeared first on Energy Exchange.
Scott Anderson
The oil industry’s wastewater is one of the biggest challenges facing Permian producers
5 years 7 months ago
This post originally appeared in the Midland Reporter Telegram. Nowhere is the current energy boom more apparent than in Midland, Texas. But with this dramatic growth in oil and gas also comes a growing amount of wastewater. Texas oil and gas companies alone produce over 300 billion gallons of wastewater a year, twice as much […]
Scott Anderson
Trump administration ends talks with California, presses ahead with Clean Car Standards rollback
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Martha Roberts