Why Businesses Should Embrace Sustainable Development
Just because people want to avert a climate catastrophe doesn’t mean all businesses also are willing to make changes for the better regarding sustainability and reducing their carbon footprints.
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Cleaner Drilling: If We’re Going to Drill Anyway, Can We Make It More Efficient?
Technological Innovation and Concern for the Environment Are Helping to Clean Up Drilling for Oil and Gas…
Tighter Fuel Efficiency Standards: How They Can Help Reduce Emissions
New fuel efficiency standards introduced by George W. Bush and expanded significantly by Barack Obama are now at risk given the antipathy of the Trump administration towards cleaner, greener running engines.
Climate Justice to Improve Quality of Life
Climate change doesn’t just affect wildlife and its habitat; people, especially those already at a disadvantage socioeconomically, suffer as well, making global warming an environmental justice issue as well.
Renewable Energy Progress: Reasons to Hope
Contrary to what the current administration would have us believe, renewables are the most cost-effective, economically beneficial options for energy sourcing and infrastructure going forward.
Ticking Time Bomb at San Onofre Nuclear Plant
The seaside nuclear reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Clemente were permanently shut down in 2013 following steam generator malfunction. What to do with the 3.6 million pounds of highly radioactive waste remains an epic problem.
Plastic Ocean Pollution a Driver of Climate Change?
Carbon sequestration by lanternfish is central to the overall role of marine environments in reducing human-caused CO2 emissions in the atmosphere…
Only Collective Action Will Solve Climate Crisis
Due to the urgency of the climate crisis, “walking the talk” as an environmentalist means going beyond personal behaviors to promoting collective action…