by Kelly Jones | Feb 10, 2018 | Press
Oil seeps around Platform Holly, just off the coast near UC Santa Barbara. It’s been inactive since its 2015 pipeline rupture, after which its owner Venoco went bankrupt. Now the state must remove the platform. From Huffington Post: ‘The California State...
by Kelly Jones | Jan 1, 2018 | Press
Storm surge on a Louisiana highway shows the effects of rising sea levels. Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration From Bloomberg: ‘Louisiana is finalizing a plan to move thousands of people from areas threatened by the rising Gulf of Mexico,...
by Kelly Jones | Dec 21, 2017 | Press
From the MCE Clean Energy’s press release dated December 19th: This fall, Marin became the first county in the state to have 100% renewable electricity for all of its county, town, and city municipal accounts. Together, all 12 municipalities have eliminated an...
by Kelly Jones | Dec 17, 2017 | Press
Protests against World Bank fossil fuel funding finally get results Photo: Dr. D. (CC license – limited rights reserved) From the Ecowatch article on the announcement: “In effort to bolster a global shift to clean energy, the World Bank—which...
by Kelly Jones | Nov 18, 2017 | Press
Norwegian cottage on a fjord Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund said Thursday that it’s considering selling all of its shares in fossil fuel companies like Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and other oil giants, in order...
