With two reporters working on a piece about opinions on cost of living and climate, it’s really bad and frankly misleading readers to still be framing these as somehow in opposition to one another. Facts don’t support that narrative, but reporters keep falling for it.

'For the first time since the mid-20th century, over 95 percent of this year’s planned new electric-generating capacity in the United States is zero-carbon.'

Read that again.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law & the Inflation Reduction Act are enabling a clean energy economy.

A tutorial on coffee art

Seeing a lot of a variant on #2 these days: “Canada’s too small to matter or make a difference.” Which is, of course, an immoral cop out. sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/small-emitte…

Pretty damning result for plug-in hybrids here.
If you're an automaker pushing these, you should publish data on how much they're being used in electric mode.

👀 the US power grid generation mix could change very, very quickly if it could speed up interconnection. Solar and batteries go in fast, in months, not years, if interconnection is there. h/t Brendan Pierpont utilitydive.com/news/grid-inte…

File under 'messy mid-transition' - a good lesson in what not to do, courtesy the government of Ontario: 'In a Dec. 21 decision regarding Enbridge’s rates, the Ontario Energy Board found that funding gas pipelines in new construction was a bad investment for Ontario’s gas…

A group of Swiss women have opened litigation 'floodgates' across nations with a new European court ruling on climate change trib.al/jE3TKOi

Climate Is the New ‘Must-Have’ in South Korean Election Gameplan bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Every year in BC, we see the real impact of climate-related emergencies: wildfire 🔥 flood 🌧️ extreme heat ☀️ drought 🏜️. BC’s new emergency management legislation reflects the reality of modern-day emergencies and incorporates lessons learned from the disasters of recent years.

File under 'messy mid-transition' - a good lesson in what not to do, courtesy the government of Ontario: 'In a Dec. 21 decision regarding Enbridge’s rates, the Ontario Energy Board found that funding gas pipelines in new construction was a bad investment for Ontario’s gas…

Excellent proposal here. Bonus points for the phrase “political festivus”

Japan will need to build new nuclear power plants to meet its 2050 net zero goal, says the nation’s utilities lobby 🇯🇵 ☢️

🏗️ Retiring reactors will need to be replaced by mid-century, said FEPC Vice Chairman Sasaki

Via Shoko Oda

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Unmistakable implementation of an “unmistakably Albertan plan.”

Sinopec just drilled a geothermal test well to 5.2 km deep - the race is on #firmcleanclosedcyclegeothermal

Hey Siri, what is regulatory capture?

A responsible headline would note that it's the Conservative's delaying it.
'Conservative spokesperson Sebastian Skamski defended his party’s opposition to the bill, and pointed out that the only reason why there is a carbon-price rebate is because the government imposed a carbon…

How much coffee is OK for me to drink in a day? I asked the experts theguardian.com/wellness/2024/… by Madeleine Aggeler

Still, he knows of no evidence that cutting out coffee is beneficial.

“Coffee is one of nature’s gifts,” he says.

Hear, hear! #TeamCoffee #TeamConfirmationBias