South Australia – a Renewable State?

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Guest essay by Paul Miskelly and Tom Quirk With $90 billion spent on batteries and 4,000 MW of more wind farms, South Australia could be a totally renewable state, at least for electricity. South Australia along with one or two other states has been described by Al Gore as the canary in the coal mine […]

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March 15, 2017 at 08:04AM

Dakota Access cleared to move oil next week after judge rules against tribes

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A federal judge has denied a last-minute plea to stop the Dakota Access pipeline, allowing the $3.8 billion oil pipeline to begin operating as early as next week. U.S. District Judge James A. Boasberg ruled Tuesday that the Cheyenne River Sioux and Standing Rock Sioux are unlikely to prevail on the merits of their challenge […]

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March 15, 2017 at 07:59AM

GOP Kicks Off Effort To Roll Back Obama’s Monument Designations

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House lawmakers kicked off their effort to push back against national monuments designations, targeting the large swaths of ocean the Obama administration made off limits to fishing. “I don’t believe the Antiquities Act should have ever been applied to oceans,” Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young said during a Wednesday hearing on marine monument designations. “There […]

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March 15, 2017 at 07:59AM

Obama-era fuel standards on Trump’s chopping block

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President Donald Trump has signaled he will revisit fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks at the American Center for Mobility today. Known as the Cafe Standards, the miles per gallon (mpg) rates were set by the Obama administration despite pleas from auto manufacturers who said the standards would significantly raise vehicle prices and cost […]

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March 15, 2017 at 07:29AM