Headline News:
- “Irma takes aim at America’s most vulnerable, unprepared city: Tampa” • Hurricane Irma appears to have Tampa in its cross-hairs, potentially hitting the city as a Category 3 storm Monday morning. Unfortunately, Tampa is unprepared. Climate science denial has thwarted efforts to plan for rising seas and worsening storms. [ThinkProgress]
Tampa in 2003 (Christopher Hollis, Wikimedia Commons)
- The Nebraska State Board of Education approved new science standards that challenge kids to think and act like scientists. Under the new standards, students will “analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate and scale of global or regional climate changes.” [Omaha World-Herald]
- JP Morgan Cazenove has joined the ranks of those who believe the electric vehicle revolution will happen sooner rather than later. JP Morgan noted that the price differential between legacy vehicles and EVs is gradually narrowing as battery prices fall, but that once a certain tipping point is reached, things could start happening quickly. [CleanTechnica]
- “President Trump’s War on Science” • From Day 1, the White House and its lackeys in certain federal agencies have been waging what amounts to a war on science. In nearly every case the principal motive for decisions seemed the same: to serve commercial interests whose profitability could be affected by health and safety rules. [New York Times]
- Helicopters will start flying this month between a Schoharie County electrical facility and the Capital Region as part of a $1 billion smart grid plan by the New York Power Authority. They will help ground crews install fiber optic lines connecting the Blenheim-Gilboa Storage Power Project to a new command center in White Plains. [Albany Times Union]
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September 10 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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