September 28 Green Energy News

Headline News:

• Major European carrier EasyJet announced that it is teaming up with US startup Wright Electric to build an all-electric airliner. The aircraft they have in mind would handle short routes of 335 miles or less – think New York to Boston or London to Paris. EasyJet said the new aircraft would cover 20% of its passenger journeys. [CNN]

Rendering of an all-electric airliner

• “US Courts Taking Climate Change Seriously” • Hallelujah! The judicial branch of the federal government is finally getting serious about climate science. No longer can the executive branch and the legislative branches cave in to pressure to avoid the inconvenient truth that climate change adaptations will be hugely expensive. [Hartford Courant]
• Extreme weather, made worse by climate change, along with the health impacts of burning fossil fuels, has cost the US economy at least $240 billion a year over the past ten years, a report found. This does not include the recent three major hurricanes or 76 wildfires in Western states, which are estimated to cost over $300 billion. [National Geographic]
• Regulators in the state of Washington have denied a permit to Millennium Bulk Terminals for a coal export facility located on the Columbia River in the town of Longview, about two and a half hours north of Portland, Oregon. The decision was based on an environmental impact study by the Washington Department of Ecology. [CleanTechnica]
• Philadelphia officials unveiled a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, reduce energy use from the built environment and use 100% renewable energy for city properties by 2030. The goals are part of the new Municipal Energy Master Plan which aims to help the city meet the goals of the Paris Climate Accord. [StateImpact Pennsylvania]
• An executive of one the top mining firms in the world, BHP, was quoted as saying that 2017 represented the “tipping point” for electric vehicle adoption. He said the first impacts of the expected mainstream embrace of electric vehicles would be observed in the metals market, with impacts to the oil market only being observed much later. [CleanTechnica]

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