A large crowd demonstrated in London on Saturday (04.16.2022) at the call of the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion to demand the immediate cessation of new infrastructure linked to fossil fuels and to alert about the climate emergency, causing major disturbances. According to the Twitter account of the movement in the United Kingdom, in the afternoon … Read more
Britain is currently taking electricity from the West Burton A coal-fired power plant operated by the French energy company EDF. “Two units helped to stabilize the transmission system and secure supplies,” he confirmed, according to the station Sky News EDF spokesperson. Within a year at this time, the facility should be definitively decommissioned. So far, … Read more
The city of New York denounced this Thursday, coinciding with Earth Day, the oil companies Exxon Mobil, Shell and BP (part of the world’s “Big Oil”), and the US employer, American Petroleum Institute, for violating their local regulation through “false advertising” and “deceptive” practices, which he called “greenwashing”. The lawsuit, filed in the New York … Read more
Sales of new petrol cars in California will probably end sooner than expected – so far there has been talk of 2040. Petrol cars are to be gradually replaced by, among other things, electric cars. Symbolically, it was on the hood of a prototype Ford Ford Mustang Mach-E Newsom that signed the regulation. “This is … Read more
GRUNDY COUNTY, Tenn.—For much of human history, the way to make money from a tree was to chop it down. Now, with companies rushing to offset their carbon emissions, there is value in leaving them standing. The good news for trees is that the going rate for intact forests has become competitive with what mills … Read more