- HVDC macrogrid would reduce climate pollutants and electricity costs while transmitting low-cost renewable power https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/11/17/proposed-hvdc-macrogrid-to-transmit-low-cost-renewable-power/ 64 comments futurology
- Costly climate ‘solutions’ look like more pollution in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/29/carbon-capture-pollution-louisiana-cancer-alley 2 comments environment
- Big Oil’s still got some juice | WSPA blocks California Polluters Pay Climate Cost Recovery Act of 2024 for now https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-climate/2024/05/23/big-oils-still-got-some-juice-00159833 6 comments climate
- Trump’s Project 2025 promises billions of tonnes more carbon pollution – study | Experts say climate policies contained within rightwing manifesto would wreck US climate targets and cost jobs https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/14/trump-project-2025-climate 4 comments climate
- Eleven Chemical Plants in China and One in the U.S. Emit a Climate Super-Pollutant Called Nitrous Oxide That’s 273 Times More Potent Than Carbon Dioxide | Proven, low-cost pollution controls could quickly curb those emissions, but neither China nor the U.S. require them. Other countries do https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01052023/eleven-chemical-plants-in-china-and-one-in-the-u-s-emit-a-climate-super-pollutant-called-nitrous-oxide-thats-273-times-more-potent-than-carbon-dioxide/ 4 comments worldnews
- Eleven Chemical Plants in China and One in the U.S. Emit a Climate Super-Pollutant Called Nitrous Oxide That’s 273 Times More Potent Than Carbon Dioxide | Proven, low-cost pollution controls could quickly curb those emissions, but neither China nor the U.S. require them. Other countries do https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01052023/eleven-chemical-plants-in-china-and-one-in-the-u-s-emit-a-climate-super-pollutant-called-nitrous-oxide-thats-273-times-more-potent-than-carbon-dioxide/ 5 comments climate
- Utilities Are Buying Pricier ‘Responsible Gas.’ But for What Climate Benefit? Ratepayers are increasingly on the hook to pay the extra costs for “certified gas” promising low-pollution but that critics warn is rife with problems. https://www.desmog.com/2024/03/05/utilities-responsible-certified-natural-gas-project-canary-climate/ 17 comments energy
- Utilities Are Buying Pricier ‘Responsible Gas.’ But for What Climate Benefit? Ratepayers are increasingly on the hook to pay the extra costs for “certified gas” promising low-pollution but that critics warn is rife with problems. https://www.desmog.com/2024/03/05/utilities-responsible-certified-natural-gas-project-canary-climate/ 4 comments climate
- EPA’s car pollution rules would save Americans trillions of dollars | By driving a faster transition to electric cars, the agency’s proposed rules would yield climate, health, and vehicle cost savings. https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/05/epas-car-pollution-rules-would-save-americans-trillions-of-dollars/ 119 comments environment
- Trump Floats Plan to Let Billionaire Polluters 'Bribe Their Way' Past Regulations | "He's making it official: If you write a big enough check, his administration will let you break the rules and drive up costs for working families," said one climate advocate. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-billion-investment 14 comments climate
- Trump Floats Plan to Let Billionaire Polluters 'Bribe Their Way' Past Regulations | "He's making it official: If you write a big enough check, his administration will let you break the rules and drive up costs for working families," said one climate advocate. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-billion-investment 106 comments politics
- US air pollution control devices saved up to 9,100 lives and up to $100 billion in health costs in 2023. Any future policies that strip the EPA of its current regulatory authority would also exacerbate racial inequities in health and likely curtail other climate policies at all levels of government https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2024/curbing-air-pollution-control-devices-would-cost-thousands-of-lives-and-billions-of-dollars/ 12 comments science
- Key Biden Climate Pollution Metric Is Safe--For Now | Supreme Court justices declined to decide whether the Biden administration is placing too high a value on the cost to society of spewing carbon and other planet-warming gases https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/key-biden-climate-pollution-metric-is-safe-for-now/ 2 comments climate
- You’ve Never Heard of Him, but He’s Remaking the Pollution Fight | Richard Revesz is changing the way the US government calculates the cost and benefits of regulation, with far-reaching implications for climate change. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/climate/ricky-revesz-oira-regulation-biden.html?unlocked_article_code=EZPNYkyvZeve_Fjs-O5RkI-R_quJcB65hCvnADuCPW8A-zvstAOcISI1FfoJdmVAYw1ivnh7jORXC2kw1upMoKOdYyOmcuGCQ_1YHT1ZWW9eUeIbAuzInReSnaDdUrZHj6oU5m0hOS5lFd9VVmRGOAMF49Lk7zwm0g64ZSky5zlYQovn0aezQ4j2wotYZY9-AY59TSpIdlEmTgyhpHIyrvd9rvvrASsXSZMVoGxG2bDD7geXW7wtJ_rDFWUE2GG1DhB7ph3h4SOJcqdUv7CI_fFRHt-eURUKvPwCob2sm8O7kEZmxfz6wIuFN5Kz6VM0S9BvJ8j4a9seSJXbhuFD7oHrqH1hLlKe5x6DVw 2 comments climate
- How 2022 has substantially, and favorably, changed global climate outlook | Despite record fossil fuel pollution in 2022, plummeting clean technology costs and backlashes to Russia’s war in Ukraine leave open a path to meeting Paris climate targets. https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/11/how-2022-has-substantially-and-favorably-changed-global-climate-outlook/ 5 comments climate
- New EPA Rule Change Saves Industry Money but Exacts a Climate Cost | The reversal of an Obama-era regulation relaxes leak detection rules for climate super-pollutants. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27022020/epa-hfc-refrigerant-emissions-climate-hydrofluorocarbons-pollutant-andrew-wheeler 11 comments politics
- A Twofer: Carbon Tax Solves Both Climate Change and Plastic Ocean Pollution | Both are harmful externalities of the fossil fuel industry: impacts, like pollution, not reflected in the cost of the products but paid for instead by some third party. http://sandiegofreepress.org/2016/05/a-twofer-carbon-tax-solves-both-climate-change-and-plastic-ocean-pollution/ 41 comments politics
- Climate Deal Requires $16.5 Trillion Investment to Cut Pollution: To accomplish that, governments will have to offer incentives for clean energy production, scale back support for fossil fuels like oil, make emissions more costly, and reduce deforestation http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-13/climate-deal-requires-16-5-trillion-investment-to-cut-pollution 105 comments worldnews
- Noise trumps logic in Clean Power Plan lawsuits | The industry groups and fossil-fuel-heavy states attacking this rule want to preserve the status quo, which ignores dangerous carbon pollution and the costly threat of climate change. http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/258192-noise-trumps-logic-in-clean-power-plan-lawsuits 18 comments politics
- Fixing Climate Change May Add No Costs, Report Says: When the secondary benefits of greener policies — like lower fuel costs, fewer premature deaths from air pollution and reduced medical bills — are taken into account, the changes might wind up saving money http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/science/earth/fixing-climate-change-may-add-no-costs-report-says.html 106 comments worldnews
- Using cleaner-burning kiln reduces the health costs of air pollution from concrete production by 14%. Cement production is responsible for about half of the total climate (32 percent) and health (18 percent) damages of making concrete. https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/concrete-solutions-lower-both-emissions-and-air-pollution 5 comments science
- Everything Trump said about the Paris climate deal was a lie. His own EPA just confirmed it. -- EPA concedes that achieving Obama's plan to cut carbon pollution would have cost very little but have huge benefits. https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-own-epa-reveals-his-entire-attack-on-the-paris-climate-deal-was-a-fraud-addeb1f0e84d/ 44 comments politics
- McKinley would bar Energy Department from considering climate change. “This amendment requires the Department of Energy to assume that carbon pollution isn’t harmful and that climate change won’t cost a thing. That’s nothing but a fantasy.” http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20140713/gz01/140719792/1101 29 comments politics
- German scientists say the prices we pay for meat and dairy products are too low as they fail to account for costs to society and the climate in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. The biggest polluter is conventionally-produced meat, they say, which should be nearly 2.5 times its current price. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19474-6 5467 comments science