News & Articles on Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels ares not renewable, obviously. They are listed here for organizational reasons. I don’t write about fossil fuels–as a rule. However, fossil fuels and those who promote them are not going away quietly. Thus, I felt it necessary to include the topic to distinguish articles that are not about nuclear power or renewable energy.
Progressives Need to Get Over Themselves and Support This GOP-Backed Carbon-Tax Plan
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Charles Komanoff
Purist objections scuttled Washington State’s market-friendly carbon tax plan in November. Let’s not let that happen at the national level.
Japan’s Kansai Electric cancels plans to switch oil-fired power station to coal
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Japan’s Kansai Electric Power has canceled plans to switch a 1,200 megawatt oil-fired power station to coal as demand for electricity fell amid a push to cut the country’s emissions after it signed up to a global climate change accord.
The year coal collapsed: 2016 was a turning point for Britain’s electricity
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Grant Wilson, Iain Staffell
Britain’s electricity was the cleanest it had been in 60 years, as coal collapsed and renewables rose to record levels.
Why Trump might not make much of a difference to action on climate change
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Dave Toke
For a start the Paris Agreement already has enough national states as signatures representing a high enough proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions to remain valid with a US withdrawal. The Agreement requires there to be signatories representing at least 55 per cent of global emissions, and there’s more than that left in the agreement without the USA.
Trump Contribution to Global Warming Policy
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Karl-friedrich Lenz
Trump has been elected president. Most people expect this to be bad news for climate policy. But Trump has already contributed strongly to the effort.
Fighting in the Trenches Doesn’t Excuse Ignorance on Carbon Taxes
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Charles Komanoff
A charitable way to view Food and Water Watch’s intemperate and misguided attacks this week on carbon taxing is that these energetic activists are so consumed with fighting fracking, pipelines and mines that they haven’t had time to absorb how carbon taxes can help dry up the “need” for new fossil fuel infrastructure.
