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In a letter, Elon Musk tells Volkswagen to “cure the air, not the cars”
Instead of focusing on fixing diesel cars, Musk and his colleagues said, Volkswagen should be required to put its resources toward becoming a zero-emissions car company.
Letter from Elon Musk: Volkswagon’s Cheating Scandal Punishment…
Elon Musk signed a letter urging California emissions regulators to require that Volkswagon put the resources it would have used to fix their cars instead into transitioning to a zero-emissions car company.
The Top Ten Reasons to be Hopeful on Climate Change
Communications expert Susan Hassol presents her top list of reasons to be hopeful about climate change and recommends four websites with resources that help people understand potential solutions to climate change issues
Energy Policy Simulator: A Game You Can Play at Work
Energy Innovation’s Energy Policy Simulator lets you model over three dozen different energy policies—from fuel economy standards to extending the life of existing nuclear to rice cultivation measures—to see how much they will cost and what impact they will have on greenhouse gas emissions.
Check out some of the prettiest (and most depressing) climate change data out there
There’s a lot of data out there — sometimes it can seem like too much — and a lot of it is unreliable. Climate data visualizations can help you sort through the noise to get at the signal.
Paris Climate Accord is a Big, Big Deal
“In the last six years,” said Hal Harvey, C.E.O. of Energy Innovation, a policy research group, “solar prices have dropped by more than 80 percent, and now cost less than a new coal plant. Wind is down 60 percent, and LED lights more than 90 percent.” The point, said Harvey, is that today’s chief executive doesn’t “have to be a hero anymore” to invest in clean power.
Decarbonizing our energy system
A conflicting range of policies is being put forth on how to deal with the threat of climate change. Given the complexity of sorting out the full range of options a new modeling tool has been developed which evaluates over 50 decarbonization strategies to meet the federal mandates from the Clean Power Plan. Known as the Energy Policy Simulator, it was developed by Energy Innovation of San Francisco and is the subject of an article by Gavin Bade.
12 charts that show the state of the US clean energy revolution
Largely seen as fringe technologies just a decade ago, clean energy resources are becoming truly mainstream in the United States. Here are 12 charts that show the state of the clean energy revolution underway in the U.S. right now.
Everything You Need to Know About the Exxon Climate Change Probe
For years, energy companies have couched the possible effects of climate change-related regulations in public reports to investors as “uncertain,” “difficult,” or “not possible” to reasonably predict. Now a probe by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is raising questions as to whether the companies knew more than they were letting on.
The Cost of Carbon
“A zero-carbon future will cost the same or less than a carbon future.”
– Hal Harvey, chief executive of Energy Innovation, a policy and technology institute, speaking at The International New York Times Energy for Tomorrow conference in Paris.