Hoosier Daniel Lee recently noted the policy choice to limit natural gas and coal, combined with mandates for low-energy wind and solar, is making the Midwest energy grid significantly more expensive and unreliable. Federal regulators are also attempting to quash local opposition to eyesore wind farms as they force utilitiesContinue Reading
A simple way to prevent some future climate pollution is to wear the clothes you own roughly twice as many times as you might have otherwise before tossing them. People doing so could reduce the related emissions impact of clothing by 44%, according to a 2017 report from the charityContinue Reading
Originally, I was going to write about the West Virginia vs EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) case the day it came out. But, with a giant case load at the Supreme Court that had been saved or procrastinated until the last few days of the term, the court ended up releasingContinue Reading
With the approach of summer and warmer weather, hordes of mosquitoes are just waiting for Hoosiers to bare a bit of skin. The pests are laying eggs in standing water even as you read this and with the oncoming swarms that will soon follow come a vast assortment of ways toContinue Reading
While a cruise around the Med or the Antarctic might seem like the height of all-inclusive luxury, you may not feel it’s worth the negative impacts after you read this. New research reveals that passengers on a seven-day voyage around the Antarctic can produce as much CO2 as the averageContinue Reading
Blockchain technology has undoubtedly revolutionized the world, with new use cases for the technology being found daily. One of these is NFTs, a new way to create digital art that took the industry by storm, with some NFTs being sold for millions of dollars each. The NFT craze peaked whenContinue Reading
Welcome to Thursday’s Overnight Energy & Environment, your source for the latest news focused on energy, the environment and beyond. Subscribe here: thehill.com/newsletter-signUp. Today we’re looking at a new report on effects of the Bureau of Land Management move, an international agreement on plastics, For The Hill, we’re Rachel Frazin andContinue Reading
A lot of NFT projects cause environmental harm, through the mining of Ethereum. Burly Bears, a new … [+] collection of 6,601 bears of six species, is aimed to eliminate the stigma that NFTs are bad for the environment by donating a lot of its profits to charities that areContinue Reading
There’s new hope for responsible environmental regulation in the Finger Lakes when Kathy Hochul replaces Andrew Cuomo as governor of New York shortly after midnight tonight. Hochul will have a chance to begin enforcing the state environmental quality review act, or SEQRA, which the Cuomo Administration has repeatedly sidestepped at the behestContinue Reading
Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion Columnists The impacts include greenhouse gas emissions; other airborne pollutants; chemical releases; noise and light pollution from the 24-hour operation and increase in large truck traffic on Highway 17; dust; and particulate emissions. Author of the article: Normand Bergevin Files: The smokestack of an Ontario cementContinue Reading
