There are varied forces arrayed against wind and solar, but Todd Woody at Yale Environment 360 nicely sums up the situation in the California desert: The Mojave has become a metaphor for an existential crisis in the environmental movement as it tries to balance the development of renewable energy with its traditional mission to protect…Continue Reading…
And some climate activists chided me for making hay out of the Mojave desert/renewable energy controversy. Looks like Romm is taking on Feinstein over this and in doing so, he’s ignited a zesty debate among his loyalists, revealing a green schism that is sure to grow wider and nastier. Or has it already? Craig Goodrich,…Continue Reading…
The controversial wind farm proposed off of Cape Cod, in Massachusetts, will have to overcome yet another hurdle, this latest one thrown up by the National Park Service, which announced yesterday that the Nantucket Sound was eligible to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It’s an extraordinary ruling on several levels, which…Continue Reading…
Could this be true?
American environmentalists don’t do complexity well. They live in a binary world of good guys and bad guys. Of late, the global warming issue has revealed this most starkly. So it bears watching how this will play out. Keith Johnson’s excellent take over at Environmental Capital covers all the bases.
Oh baby, I smell the makings of a Full Contact match between enviros coming on. I know plenty of folks in the oil & gas industry who will be paying for front row seats and chortling at every body slam.