Both literally and metaphorically, Bruce Kerfoot's life has been shaped by the seasons of Minnesota's Gunflint Lake and adjacent woods. The 72-year-old is a living, breathing, talking barometer of environmental change, and he has adapted to all manner of landscape alternations wrought by drought, wind, fire, flood, ice and snow.
Climate change activists have begun to openly worry that the upcoming Rio+20 U.N. mega-conference on sustainable development has abandoned a grand vision for fighting global warming. In their fear of tainting the sunny Rio de Janeiro summit with the dark clouds of the ever-troubled international climate negotiations, analysts note, national and U.N. leaders have avoided even speaking about the two bodies in the same sentence. The result, many say, is that Rio is in danger of pushing climate change to the far margins of the global environmental discussion.
HOUSTON -- Major changes are in store for the nation's natural gas industry in the next five to 10 years, an official with the Chicago-based Gas Technology Institute said during an industry gathering here Wednesday. (EnergyWire, )
In the obscure world of federal rulemaking and administrative law, Wednesday's gathering of progressives at American University was about as close as you could get to an old-fashioned revival meeting. (Greenwire, )
Tesla Motors Inc. has announced it will sell up to $830 million in shares and debt as part of its plans to repay a federal loan. (Greenwire, )
The poor man’s satellite? (ClimateWire, )
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee yesterday approved a bill that would bypass administrative review and issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. (Greenwire, )
The chief of the world's largest independent oil company said that humans are accelerating climate change and that action must be taken. (Greenwire, )
