John was the founding editor of Climatewire. He's now a reporter working on special projects, based in Denver, Colo. He's a former reporter with The Wall Street Journal, where he covered a wide variety of issues for the Washington bureau. He also served abroad as the lead reporter for the Journal in the first Gulf War and in the London bureau, during the waning days of the Cold War. He has written four books and is the co-founder of SOAR!, a group that has raised more than $10 million to help retired Catholic sisters and brothers.
A study led by scientists from Harvard University's Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment asserts that if reducing the planet's greenhouse gas emissions and other dangerous pollutants were a sport, the scoreboard couldn't say who's winning.
A Chinese automaker has unveiled the nation's first global sales campaign for an electric car: the Polestar 2. It's a five-door hatchback that is "designed to compete around Tesla Model 3," according to an advertisement yesterday in The New York Times.
The most ambitious plan to jump-start the sluggish movement toward electric vehicles in the U.S. was unveiled last month in a $454 billion proposal. Its political prospects are dim.
When it comes to electric vehicles, no nation has matched China's audacious plan. It wants to beat the world.
In 2008, J. David Marley, an engineer who owned a construction firm in Amherst, Mass., had an idea. He had just finished building a large solar array on the rooftop of his downtown office building.