Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 20.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES All Stories by Norm Holy In recent months, utilities have repeatedly raised rates to cover the skyrocketing costs of the coal and gas needed to run their plants as well as the energy they had to buy from the grid when some of those plants unexpectedly …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 20.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAs reported in the Los Angeles Times, the Trump administration has lifted a major hurdle for development of the Pebble Mine, a massive gold and copper mine in the wilds of Alaska despite fears that it will poison the world’s largest sockeye salmon run. Even after the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAt least a half-dozen utilities have released plans to get to net-zero emissions, or close to it, by twenty fifty. Now a Michigan company has said that it will get to net-zero emissions by twenty forty, the fastest timetable of any major utility in the country. The …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe International Union for the Conservation of Nature carried out a detailed, multi-year study showing that climate collapse and environmental degradation are fueling violence against women and girls and that gender-based exploitation is hurting our ability to tackle the environmental crises. The global fossil fuel industry emits 25-40 percent …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 19.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Australian Supreme Court has stepped in to put an immediate halt to a logging project in east Victoria while it waits for cases about the health of native species to be heard in court. If you look at the Nobel Prize website page, Svante August Arrhenius …
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