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Washington's carbon tax initiative was billed as a bipartisan approach to curbing carbon emissions, but voters rejected the measure, which drew opposition from the fossil fuel industry and environmental groups alike. The proposed tax on carbon emissions from fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline would have been the first in the U.S., and sponsors hoped it would serve as a model for actions across the country.
American climate activists' single biggest achievement in recent years was the defeat of the Keystone XL pipeline . Nothing has unified and energized more people than the fight to keep dirty fossil fuels in the ground.
Never has the stark difference between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton been more clear on the issue most important to local voters. Clinton has detailed her position for several months.
Still, an ongoing drilling boom has lowered dependence on imports of fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas. In 2015, the U.S. relied on net imports for about 24 percent of petroleum use, the lowest level since 1970.
Even by the standards of liberal Democrats, Hillary Clinton is running the most frankly redistributionist presidential campaign in years. She promises massive new spending initiatives and balanced budgets, achieved by raising taxes on higher-income Americans in ways that other Democrats have rejected in the recent past.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell penned a letter this week to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission urging it to approve a plan to remove four dams from the Klamath River to protect the interests of fish and farmers. “In short, dam removal can re-write a painful chapter in our history, and it can be done in a manner that protects the many interests in the basin,” she wrote in her Monday letter.
He believes the solar-powered glass pavers his company makes could transform thousands of miles of pavement into a new energy source. His business, Solar Roadways, recently unveiled its first public installation, in a downtown plaza in this northern Idaho resort town.
30, 2016, photo, Solar Roadways founders Scott Brusaw, left, and Julie Brusaw display a one-third sized replica of one of their solar pavement panels at a news conference in Sandpoint, Idaho as Sandpoint m... . In this Sept.
"But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain.
THE ISSUE: Energy independence has been a goal of every president since Richard Nixon. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have very different ways to achieve it.
For the Record: Hey! Over here! It's a real issue like climate change Where do Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and third-party candidates stand on climate change? Check out this story on brookfield-elmgrovenow.com: http://usat.ly/2e6smEl Sigh. What does it mean for democracy when the election now depends on how you view the P-word? And why, if this is all we can talk about, is Team FTR even bothering to tell you where the candidates stand on matters that don't involve genitalia? We don't know either.
The biobased products industry contributes hundreds of billions of dollars to the US economy while reducing millions of metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a US Department of Agriculture report . The report says that in 2014, the biobased products industry contributed $393 billion and 4.2 million jobs - indicating that the sector grew from 2013 to 2014 , producing an additional $24 billion over the previous year.
As the heads of two different kinds of organizations, we take immense pride in the long history of cooperation between the labor and environmental movements. Indeed, in 2016 more than ever before, we believe we are stronger together.
The nation's oldest lighthouse station is turning 300 years old with celebrations and ... Michigan's former state epidemiologist acknowledged in a plea deal Wednesday that she was aware of dozens of cases of Legionnaires' disease in the Flint area around the same time the city changed its water... Michigan's former state epidemiologist acknowledged in a plea deal Wednesday that she was aware of dozens of cases of Legionnaires' disease in the Flint area around the same time the city changed its water source,... A federal plan will open swaths of public land in the California desert to renewable energy development while preserving much of the landscape for conservation and recreation.
Swaths of public land in the California desert will be opened to solar and wind farms under a federal plan released Wednesday that preserves much of the landscape for conservation and recreation. The long-awaited blueprint finalized by the U.S. Interior Department after a yearslong process seeks to balance renewable energy development and species protection on 17,000 square miles of desert managed by the federal government.
Michigan's former state epidemiologist acknowledged in a plea deal Wednesday that she was aware of dozens of cases of Legionnaires' disease in the Flint area around the same time the city changed its water... Michigan's former state epidemiologist acknowledged in a plea deal Wednesday that she was aware of dozens of cases of Legionnaires' disease in the Flint area around the same time the city changed its water source,... A federal plan will open swaths of public land in the California desert to renewable energy development while preserving much of the landscape for conservation and recreation.
Michigan's former state epidemiologist acknowledged in a plea deal Wednesday that she was aware of dozens of cases of Legionnaires' disease in the Flint area around the same time the city changed its water... Michigan's former state epidemiologist acknowledged in a plea deal Wednesday that she was aware of dozens of cases of Legionnaires' disease in the Flint area around the same time the city changed its water source,... A federal plan will open swaths of public land in the California desert to renewable energy development while preserving much of the landscape for conservation and recreation.
Citadels of science like MIT and the American Geophysical Union are eschewing opportunities to stand up against climate change denial by turning a blind eye to evidence. It is a discredit to science and a disservice to society.
Mostly unnoticed amid the political brawl over climate change, the United States has undergone a quiet transformation in how and where it gets its energy during Barack Obama's presidency, slicing the nation's output of polluting gases that are warming Earth. As politicians tangled in the U.S. and on the world stage, the U.S. slowly but surely moved away from emissions-spewing coal and toward cleaner fuels like natural gas, nuclear, wind and solar.
Following on last week's Trump episode , Sean O'Reilly and Taylor Muckerman are taking a look at Hillary Clinton's platform on energy. Listen in to find out what Clinton plans to change about the energy industry if she's elected -- how much she wants to expand nuclear, solar, and wind; how she plans to help disenfranchised coal families; and more.