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#ActOnClimate: Talk about the #ClimateCrisis

September 20th, 2022 · Comments Off on #ActOnClimate: Talk about the #ClimateCrisis

When it comes to climate action, the focus is all too often on physical actions (put solar on roof, eat less meat, and so on). These actions are, quite legitimately, examples of what we all can and should be doing but aren’t necessarily the most critical individual action. After voting (at all levels and opportunities) […]

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Tags: ActOnClimate · climate change · climate crisis · Public Opinion

With Climate Hawk White House, Whitehouse to give last #TimeToWakeUp speech

January 27th, 2021 · Comments Off on With Climate Hawk White House, Whitehouse to give last #TimeToWakeUp speech

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is a true Climate Hawk and has one of the few national-level politicians with an extended record of forcefully speaking about the urgent necessity for serious climate action. One element of this record will close out later today with an impressive record: 279 #TimeToWakeUp speeches to draw attention to the climate […]

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Tags: ActOnClimate · climate change · climate crisis · climate hawk · Climate Hawks

Four Wednesdays in January: From insurrection to innovative climate action

January 26th, 2021 · 1 Comment

The United States has been through a massive roller-coaster over the past month. The events of Four Wednesdays in January have been momentous: Wednesday, January 6th: Insurrection: At the instigation of Donald Trump, insurrectionists assaulted the Capitol and put the survival of U.S. Democracy on a knife’s edge. Of course, that first Wednesday began with […]

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Tags: ActOnClimate · BidenHarrisAdministration · climate change · Energy · Joe Biden

McAuliffe’s 2009 Clean Energy Future for Virginia

December 28th, 2019 · Comments Off on McAuliffe’s 2009 Clean Energy Future for Virginia

For decades, people have been working on and considering how to get Virginia on the path toward a clean energy future. And, with plunging prices for clean energy paths (solar, wind, storage (batteries), efficiency (think LED lights), electric transportation, etc) with increasing climate impacts and understanding of climate risks along with increased business pressure for […]

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Tags: ActOnClimate · clean emissions · virginia

Virginia’s Clean Economy Act: Are the analytical underpinnings fatally (pessimistically) flawed

December 22nd, 2019 · Comments Off on Virginia’s Clean Economy Act: Are the analytical underpinnings fatally (pessimistically) flawed

Last week, a broad environmental coalition and multiple Virginia state legislators coalesced for the announcement of the “Virginia Clean Economy Act” (VCEA). When one sees organizations like CCAN and its climate hawk founder/director Mike Tidwell pushing hard to build momentum for the VCEA, the presumption has to be that this is serious action that would […]

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Tags: ActOnClimate · analysis · clean emissions · Cost-Benefit Analysis · dominion virginia power · electricity · Electrification · environmental · environmental economics · renewable electricity standards · virginia

A #ClimateDebate would matter (Lessons from Texas)

June 6th, 2019 · 2 Comments

Tom Perez and the DNC staff have truly stepped into it … explicitly rejecting hosting a climate debate and threatening Democratic Party presidential candidates ready to participate in one hosted by some other organization. By pegging the climate crisis as yet another ‘single issue’, Perez and his team are demonstrating a fundamental failure to understand […]

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Tags: 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary · 2020 Presidential Election · ActOnClimate · climate change · climate crisis

How are Trump & Coal the same? both pollute the commons, people hate them, and vast majorities want them gone

November 22nd, 2017 · 4 Comments

For the first time in history, green energy is now cheaper than black energy. The world now has a unique opportunity to create a world that runs entirely on green energy. With this reality in mind, Orsted (the Danish clean-energy firm formerly known as DONG (Danish Oil & Natural Gas)), chartered  the largest global survey […]

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Tags: ActOnClimate · China · climate change · Energy · Public Opinion