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Climate Activists Sit In For Major Changes At Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

February 20, 2020 Beyond Extreme Energy, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Washington, DC - On February 20, members of the climate justice group Beyond Extreme Energy held a sit-in inside the offices of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Seven activists disrupted FERC’s monthly commissioner's meeting, calling for FERC to be replaced with the ‘Federal Renewable Energy Commission’ (FREC). An additional five BXE members sat down blocking a staircase, before being forcibly removed. Members of the group sang and unfurled banners reading “FERC Permits Climate Crimes” and “FREC sustains communities and the earth.” They sat peacefully in the FERC headquarters until forcibly removed by building security. BXE member Jerome Wagner said the action was necessary because, “Under the Trump administration, FERC has become even more rogue, brazenly prioritizing fossil fuels over renewables and continuing to serve as a rubber stamp for natural gas infrastructure expansion.”

US Hit Record $55.5B Renewables Investments In 2019

January 20, 2020 By Catherine Morehouse, Utilitydive.com ,
A last-minute push from U.S. investors on wind in response to the Production Tax Credit winding down, as well as bullish investments from Europe and China on offshore wind, led to a surge in investments at the end of 2019, momentum that's anticipated to carry through 2020, according to BloombergNEF. "What was looking like quite a quiet year really kind of changed in the last few months with all these offshore wind deals coming through," Chief Editor at BloombergNEF Angus McCrone told Utility Dive.

‘No More Fossil Lovers!’, BXE Disrupts Hearing For New FERC Commissioner

November 6, 2019 Beyond Extreme Energy, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Washington, DC - Members of Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) spoke out at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing for James Danly, who was nominated by President Trump to be the third Republican commissioner at FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. BXE members unfurled a banner reading “Reject Danly” and yelled "FERC: No more fossil lovers! Wind and solar now!" before being arrested. The Danly nomination has been controversial because the Republican Danly was not paired with a Democrat nominee, as has been the norm at FERC for years. Danly is not qualified to be a FERC commissioner. Let us count the ways: He just graduated from law school in 2014. He had no regulatory experience when he was appointed by Pres. Trump in 2017 to be general counsel at FERC. 

Natural Gas Vs. Renewable Energy: Beware The Latest Gas Industry Talking Points

October 21, 2019 Derrick Z. Jackson, Blog.ucsusa.org , ,
The campaign is loaded with disinformation. The American Petroleum Institute (API) says it’s pushing gas as a “foundation for the future” because it is “clean.” Major fossil fuel companies including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell are API members. The Independent Petroleum Association of America is playing up outdated 2008 praise of gas by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to decry pledges by leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for gas.

A Boom In Renewables Education As Scotland Upskills

September 29, 2019 David Leask, Herald Scotland. , , ,
A new study has revealed the sheer volume of training underway as the country upskills for climate emergency, new statistics reveal. The research, the first of its kind, showed an “enormous range of courses” on offer from Borders to Highlands. And more than a third of the students taking up the opportunity to work in the green industrial revolution are women. The new figures were calculated by industry lobby Scottish Renewables using a series of Freedom of Information requests. Thirty one higher education institutions are offering courses, ranging from Energy Finance and Policy at the University of Edinburgh) and Countryside Management at Scotland’s Rural College to Tourism Sustainability and Climate Change at the University of Glasgow and Engineering Systems at Dundee and Angus College.

Renewable Energy’s Booming, But Still Falling Far Short Of Climate Goals

September 7, 2019 Kristoffer Tigue, Insideclimatenews.org ,
Renewable energy capacity quadrupled worldwide over the past 10 years, with an estimated $2.6 trillion invested in its growth, a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme shows. But the speed of that growth still falls far short of what researchers say is needed to keep global warming in check. To meet the Paris climate agreement aim of keeping global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported last year that the world would need to invest an average of about $3 trillion to $3.5 trillion every year between 2016 and 2050.

Can We Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy In Time To Avert Climate Catastrophe?

August 30, 2019 Daniel Ross, Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. ,
Ten years ago, two climate scientists, Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi, published a groundbreaking article in Scientific American outlining a road map for becoming 100 percent reliant on energy generated by water, wind and sun by 2030. This was something that needed to be done “if the world has any hope of slowing climate change,” the researchers warned at the time. The article proved incendiary. “First of all, nobody believed it when we put out that paper in 2009,” Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, told Truthout. “It was a very pie-in-the-sky thought.

Plentiful Renewable Energy Awaits The World

August 30, 2019 Tim Radford, Climatenewsnetwork.net ,
LONDON, 29 August, 2019 − US and European researchers have shown the way to an era of cheap and plentiful renewable energy on a massive scale. Canadian scientists have worked out how to extract pure, non-polluting fuel from spent or unexploited oil wellsat a fraction of the cost of gasoline. And British and Danish scholars have worked out that, in principle, Europe could generate enough onshore wind energy to supply the whole world until 2050.

People Of Color And White Rural Populations Are Going To Suffer The Most From The EPA’s War On Renewable Power

August 9, 2019 By Gloria Oladipo, Otherwords.org , , ,
New coal standards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are threatening to permanently undermine the federal government’s power to control power plant pollution. The new rule — which would empower states to decide how much they want to reduce their emissions, if at all — will be devastating for all Americans. Especially vulnerable are people of color and rural populations. Several states — California, Washington, and Iowa to name a few — have already challenged the new rule.

10 Ways Farmers Can Fight Climate Change

July 1, 2019 Brie Mazurek, Cuesa.org , , ,
As the largest agricultural producer in the U.S., California is on the frontlines of the fight against climate change. Our state also feels the impacts of climate change acutely through increased drought, extreme weather events, and wildfires. The time to take action is more urgent than ever. In anticipation of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco next week, we’ve listed (with credit to the California Climate & Agriculture Network)...

A Kentucky Power Plant’s Demise Signals A Reckoning For Coal

June 15, 2019 James Bruggers, Inside Climate News. , ,
Louisville, KY—When the six smokestacks of the Cane Run Generating Station came tumbling down in a cloud of dust last weekend as part of a controlled implosion by its utility owner, nearby resident Kathy Little was flooded with emotion. "I was in tears," said Little, a grandmother, who with her neighbors joined a Sierra Club campaign called Beyond Coal that successfully pressured the plant to curb toxic ash from blowing into their community. "It was so symbolic to me because of all the work we have done." The 1,000-megawatt coal plant on the banks of the Ohio River hadn't produced toxic ash—or electricity—since it was retired by its owner, LG&E, in 2015. But its demise, which took less than a minute, symbolized the broader decline of coal in both generating capacity and the production of electricity.

Activists Scale FERC Building, Demand Congress Replace It With FREC

April 18, 2019 Beyond Extreme Energy, Popular Resistance. , ,
Washington DC: Two activists scaled the precarious awning over the front door to FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, early this morning.                        The action was taken by Beyond Extreme Energy on behalf of millions of affected citizens who are frustrated by years of FERC's approvals of pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure, and alarmed by Donald Trump’s recent Executive Orders to further expedite pipeline approval.                 “The Federal Energy Regulation Commission, FERC, has for years been overseeing a major expansion of the destructive fracked gas industry,” said Ted Glick

The Inevitable Death Of Natural Gas As A ‘Bridge Fuel’

March 6, 2019 By Justin Mikulka, Desmogblog.com ,
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti recently announced the city is scrapping plans for a multi-billion-dollar update to three natural gas power plants, instead choosing to invest in renewable energy and storage. “This is the beginning of the end of natural gas in Los Angeles,” said Mayor Garcetti. “The climate crisis demands that we move more quickly to end dependence on fossil fuel, and that’s what today is all about.” Last year America’s carbon emissions rose over 3 percent, despite coal plants closing and being replaced in part by natural gas, the much-touted “bridge fuel” and “cleaner” fossil fuel alternative.

The Inevitable Death Of Natural Gas As A ‘Bridge Fuel’

February 25, 2019 By Justin Mikulka, Desmogblog.com ,
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti recently announced the city is scrapping plans for a multi-billion-dollar update to three natural gas power plants, instead choosing to invest in renewable energy and storage. “This is the beginning of the end of natural gas in Los Angeles,” said Mayor Garcetti. “The climate crisis demands that we move more quickly to end dependence on fossil fuel, and that’s what today is all about.” Last year America’s carbon emissions rose over 3 percent, despite coal plants closing and being replaced in part by natural gas, the much-touted “bridge fuel” and “cleaner” fossil fuel alternative.

Fossil Fuel Money Crushed Clean Energy Ballot Initiatives Across The Country

November 8, 2018 By David Roberts, Vox.com , , ,
Most eyes Tuesday night were on the key House, Senate, and governor races — and Democrats had a mixed night, taking the House but watching as newfound heroes Beto O’Rourke and Andrew Gillum went down to defeat. But there were several climate change- and energy-related ballot initiatives up for a vote across the country as well. For the most part, they did not go well for fans of clean energy. The ones that utilities and oil and gas companies mobilized and spent big against lost. After being boxed out of climate and energy policy at the federal level, the left has turned to states, but at least last night, the states did not deliver much good news.
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