No new gas stations in Los Angeles?
Australian Scientists Discover Styrofoam-eating “superworm.”
Why does electricity usage go down? Income inequality, says Resources for the Future.
Ford trying to get more congressional support for electric vehicles, says the Washington Post.
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Parts of the West are engulfed by wildfire every year, mostly on U.S. Forest Service land. The Forest Service has two techniques to prevent wildfires: mechanical treatments (usually thinning the forest) and prescribed burns (setting controlled fires to clear brush and shrubs). But environmental reviews are causing drastic delays before the process can even start….
After years of crackdown efforts by the Internal Revenue Service, Congress is coming closer to removing incentives that allow enormous tax deductions for conservation easements. Richard Rubin writes in the Wall Street Journal: “A bipartisan group of lawmakers said it hopes to complete legislation to curb tax breaks for land-rights deals this year, but as…
Should rural communities be able to limit the number of wind and solar projects in their regions? Or do the renewable companies have a legal right to put turbines and solar panels on any property they can buy? Complicating the issue is the fact that many renewable projects would not be built without billions of…
From Tsvetana Paraskov of OilPrice.com. “Germany will rely more on electricity generation from coal in order to conserve gas and fill its gas storage by winter, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Sunday, outlining measures to save gas after Russia last week reduced supply to some of its biggest customers in Europe. “As a first…