March 13, 2017
Sierra Club to Honor Man with Private Jet, Actress Who Inspired #DAPL Mess
Sierra Club to Honor Man with Private Jet, Actress Who Inspired #DAPL Mess
File in: you can’t make it up. The Sierra Club is holding a “Trail Blazers Ball” in San Francisco with an “A-list roster” for its 125th anniversary.
March 9, 2017
Tesla Needs Billions For Chargers To Compete With Gas Stations
Tesla Needs Billions For Chargers To Compete With Gas Stations
CNBC reports that Tesla would need to spend up to $8 billion in order to build a network of chargers that would make their electric vehicles as convenient at gas-powered cars:
March 9, 2017
Solar Land Grab Competing With Farmland
Solar Land Grab Competing With Farmland
Concern is growing in states and local communities over the amount of farmland that could be taken over by large-scale solar projects. From The Wall Street Journal:
March 8, 2017
Environmentalists Want To Shut Down Pipeline Regulator
Environmentalists Want To Shut Down Pipeline Regulator
Environmentalist activists are taking their war against pipelines to a new level by grinding the operations of a federal pipeline regulator, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), to a halt. From The Washington Examiner:
March 7, 2017
Judge Rules: DAPL Moving Forward
Judge Rules: DAPL Moving Forward
On Tuesday, a federal judge rejected a last-minute request to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is near completion
March 3, 2017
Enviros Back Measure That Could Worsen L.A.’s Housing Crisis
Enviros Back Measure That Could Worsen L.A.’s Housing Crisis
Measure S, a Los Angeles ballot measure that will put in place more regulations to slow development, could worsen the city’s ongoing housing crisis. From USC Professor Jan Breidenbach’s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times: Measure S is advertised as a radical fix to business as usual, ending cronyism between big developers and City Hall. […]