Headline News:
- As seas continue to rise on Virginia’s coast, so too does action continue to stem this most visible impact of our changing climate. The state’s top environmental official just penned an op-ed cataloguing the positive past steps the governor has taken to help curb climate change and grow clean energy in Virginia. [Natural Resources Defense Council]
Live oak on the coast of Virginia (photo by Wyatt Greene, CC BY SA, Wikimedia Commons)
- Opinion: “New 600 MW Colorado Wind Farm Blows Past ALEC Roadblock” • The powerful lobbying organization ALEC has been trying to trip up the US wind industry for years. Even so, despite objections from at least one organization linked to ALEC, Colorado officials have just approved a massive new 600-MW wind farm. [CleanTechnica]
- “Coalition’s stunning hypocrisy – and ignorance – on renewable energy” • Australia’s Coalition Government, dropping all pretended support for renewable energy, contradicted the grid owner, the market operator, and the biggest generator, saying a coal plant would have kept the lights on when the power lines were blown down. [CleanTechnica]
- Canada will impose a federal price on emissions of carbon dioxide nationwide in 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced. The policy approach could push tougher limits on provinces that already use a carbon tax or a program for cap-and-trade, and could require major new programs for other parts of the country. [Bloomberg BNA]
- Oil and gas resources in Russia may run out by 2030, Sberbank CEO Herman Gref said on a popular TV show. The head of the country’s biggest bank stressed that by macroeconomic standards there is not much time to transform Russia’s economy, warning of dire consequences of avoiding the issue. [Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide]
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October 5 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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