Energy & Fuel

Older Americans Blockade Banks to Protest Fossil Fuel Financing

"Climate activists are taking to the streets Tuesday in one of the biggest coordinated demonstrations over global warming since millions of the world’s youth walked out of their classrooms in 2019 to urge their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis. Except this time, it’s not young people leading the charge but Baby Boomers."

Source: Inside Climate News, 03/22/2023

"A Black Community In Arizona Battles Power Expansion Plans Again"

"A handful of weary residents gathered at the windowless Randolph church to mull over the latest effort by an electric utility to expand its power station – a polluting gas-fired plant next door to the community that the state regulator has blocked on environmental and health grounds."

Source: Guardian, 03/21/2023

Big Oil Firms Touted Algae As Climate Fix. Now All Have Pulled Funding

"One by one, big oil firms have touted their investments in algae biofuels as the future of low-carbon transportation – and one by one, they have all dropped out. Now in the wake of the last remaining algae proponent, ExxonMobil, announcing its withdrawal, insiders say they are disappointed but not surprised."

Source: Guardian, 03/20/2023

"Biden Plans to Name Nevada’s Spirit Mountain Area a National Monument"

"President Biden plans next week to designate nearly a half-million acres of the Spirit Mountain area in southern Nevada as a national monument, according to two people familiar with the matter,  protecting some of the most biologically diverse and culturally significant lands in the Mojave Desert."

Source: NYTimes, 03/17/2023

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