With $29 million waiting in the wings from Navigator, McLean County Zoning Board refuses to hear testimony on pipeline matters
Heat Waves — In Red & Black: CO2 Pipeline Play in McLean County: Act 2
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Heat Waves — In Red and Black
Heat Waves — in Red & Black: Greenwashing has new page in climate denialist playbook
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‘Cost-effective solutions’ and ‘satellite data’ have been two tools used to mislead about forest fires, carbon buildup
Heat Waves — in Red & Black: What’s next? Winters with hunger
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Extreme weather from summer of discontent — from climate change and Ukraine War, for example — has decimated crops worldwide
Heat Waves — In Red & Black: Another summer of discontent
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Heat Waves — In Red & Black: Does your home need an energy audit?
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It’s easy to see if you need an energy audit, which are not cheap for the pocketbook; but they are invaluable to the environment with a big payoff in energy savings Energy audits aren’t cheap, but it is easy to…
Heat Waves — In Red & Black: First steps for lean, clean and green home rehab
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Inflation Reduction Act provides incentives making heat pump water tanks much more affordable
Heat Waves — in Red & Black: Home, sweet carbon-neutral, home
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Last year, Illinois households burned 422 trillion cubic feet of gas resulting in 23 million metric tons of CO2 emissions. That matches annual tailpipe emissions of 5 million autos. Energy audit crucial in helping improve our house’s energy efficiency by 85 percent
Heat Waves in Red & Black: Inflation Reduction Act — save money at home by decarbonizing
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If you want to help arrest global warming but are not sure about your best actions, then the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, offers a lengthy list of things to do. Over the next 10 years (2023-32), this breakthrough climate…
Heat Waves in Red & Black: Putin’s petrostate under kleptocratic ‘reiderstovo’
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Russian oligarchs are named incorrectly. America has oligarchs, men whose extraordinary wealth can sway governments. As Gilens and Page (2014) show, economic elites and big corporations get their way when Congress crafts legislation whereas ordinary citizens have negligible impact. Wealth…
Heat Waves — In Red & Black: PAYS to provide water like it’s a human right
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Climate and Equity Jobs Act program helps fight the scarcity and inequality that economics creates Last month, I explored physical shortages of water and nature-based approaches to closing deficits in drinking water. A more common American problem is rapidly accelerating…