The HFC measure, which empowers the EPA to cut the production and use of HFCs by 85 percent over the next 15 years, is expected to save as much as half a degree Celsius of warming by the end of the century.
Now, Greenpeace is going after Walmart, saying America's biggest retailer is misleading shoppers about its plastic products being recyclable instead of trying to sell less of the stuff.
In a lawsuit filed last week in California state court, Greenpeace eviscerates a variety of plastic items sold under Walmart's private labels. These items, which range from applesauce containers to fruit cups to plastic cups and cutlery, "are advertised, marketed and sold as recyclable," the lawsuit says, but most recycling facilities don't accept or can't process these items and there are no markets to reuse them, according to the suit. This mislabeling of products breaks California laws regarding false advertising and environmental marketing, Greenpeace contends.
The area has accidentally become one of Europe’s largest nature preserves, serving as a clear testament to the detrimental impact of humans on wildlife.
There are ongoing arguments about whether the Exclusion Zone will ever be inhabitable for humans again. Ukraine’s state authorities said in 2011 that the area could be occupied within 320 years, while Greenpeace and Chernobyl director Ihor Gramotkin both said more recently that it would likely be upwards of 20,000 years.
I don't think any reasonable person doesn't believe all the nuclear radiation ever created won't some day be in the environment. Some hopeful notes after the fallout, and after humanity's short time on earth has come and passed.
Suspected Russian government hackers breached the computer networks of the US Defense Department. The Commerce Department. The Treasury Department. The State Department. Homeland Security. Even the part of the Energy Department that oversees America’s nuclear arsenal.
With just a few weeks left, 2020 is in a dead-heat tie for the hottest year on record. But whether it claims the top spot misses the point, climate scientists say. There is no shortage of disquieting statistics about what is happening to the Earth.
The hottest decade on record is coming to a close, with the last five years being the hottest since 1880. 2020 is just two-hundredths of a degree cooler than 2016, the hottest year ever recorded. The Earth is nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer now than it was in the 20th century, and greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are still rising.
The change was eight years in the making, but New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s decision to divest the state’s massive pension fund from fossil fuels over four years is an enormous victory for environmentalists, according to climate activists and author Bill McKibben.
“It’s a huge part of this global divestment effort that’s now at about $15 trillion,” McKibben told Capital Tonight. “Look, the Pope and the Queen of England have both divested in the course of this year but they don’t have as much money as the Comptroller of the State of the New York. It’s the largest pension fund that divested yet, breaking the record set three years ago by Scott Stringer who divested the City’s pension fund.”
The latest state pension fund valuation is at $226.4 billion.
I know that has been a big fight for a long time for a lot of people. I am also a member of the state pension system and I think it does send a strong message on what should be future investments of the fossil industry.
But I also understand the hesitance of the state to divest for wi many years. Indeed, my personal portfolio is a bit heavier on energy stocks compared to the market as whole, as I bought some years ago as a hedge against energy price driven inflation / recession.
I also think the energy industry is primed to be in the forefront of the renewable energy industry, just because energy companies own a lot of land and infrastructure like power lines and transformers. And it's not like we don't all use fossil energy - I like my big jacked up truck. Even if my future property is small and off grid, I'll still need diesel for my tractor and pick up truck, propane for cooking, and lots of products made using fossil fuels. Or the plastic wrapper the food comes in and goes up in smoke in the burn barrel. But cities need to go on a diet from all the massive fossil fuels they consume.
Climate change is real and effects us all, especially those who live close to the land. But it's also mainly an urban problem caused by high emissions or carbon from the cities. But it's a tough nut to crack. Much more difficult than power factor or even something like the ozone hole or water pollution.