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Renewables 'Hit a Wall' in Saturated Upper Midwest Grid
The Clean Grid Alliance, which includes renewable energy developers, environmental groups, turbine maker Vestas and Google, says transmission congestion in the Upper Midwest threatens to dramatically slow renewable energy development there.
(E&E News)
These Cities Want to Ban Natural Gas. But Would It Be Legal?
With concerns about natural gas's impact on climate change rising, several Massachusetts cities and towns have started exploring outright bans on new natural gas hookups in commercial and residential buildings. But in Massachusetts, as Cambridge discovered, it might be harder—if not impossible—to do.
(InsideClimate News)
Hopes Dim for Broad Deal on Global Carbon Market at UN Talks
As nearly 200 nations wrap up climate talks in Madrid, a rift between industrial and developing nations about how to use carbon markets risks watering down a deal that could unlock hundreds of billions of dollars in aid for climate-related projects, Bloomberg reports. Read more from ICN on how environmental justice groups say carbon markets hurt the poor.
(Bloomberg)
World Must Reach 'Peak Meat' by 2030 to Meet Climate Change Targets, Scientists Warn
The world's meat production needs to begin declining from its peak within the next 10 years in order to keep climate change in check and avert catastrophe, scientists warned this week in a letter to The Lancet Planetary Health Journal.
(CNN)
Facing Catastrophic Climate Change, They Still Can’t Quit Big Oil
In the remote wilderness of Alaska's North Slope, climate change is already wreaking havoc on the state's ecosystems. Yet a prosperous oil industry remains thriving with no end in sight.
(Washington Post)
States Express Support for Offshore Wind in Gulf of Maine
Gulf of Maine states expressed strong support Thursday for offshore wind, setting the region up to become the next battleground over the resource as some members of the area's influential fishing industry voice objections, The Associated Press reports. Read more in ICN on how the gulf may soon host the nation's first floating wind farm.
(Associated Press)
Colorado Climate Activists Issue Fake News Release
In Colorado, climate activists tried to spread false information to the media on two separate occasions, Grist reports. One was a Sunrise Movement email claiming the mayor of Denver was going to apologize for an oil company sponsoring a sustainability conference he hosted. Another involved an Extinction Rebellion activist making a prank official announcement that the governor had declared a climate emergency.
(Grist)
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