The law calls for a 40% reduction in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions from the 1990 levels by 2030. According to state data, the emissions have already been reduced by 10% leaving a whopping 30% to go in just four years.
"... The Trump administration’s efforts to boost oil and natural gas production and suppress renewable energy ... were enough to postpone the plateau ..."
"... the delayers and defeatists are losing the climate fight ..."
"... Mr Albanese said on Sunday (AEDT) it was “a good thing” and “a very positive sign that the world wants to get on with co-operating" ..."
Aussie climate and energy minister Chris Bowen demonstrating his international diplomacy skills.
The COP30 process will proceed, but its authority is broken. The IMO will reconvene, but without US money or muscle, its “Net Zero framework” will remain aspirational. Europe will continue to sermonise, but the world...
Our legislators, innumerate to a person, had bought into the fantasy — peddled by lightweight academics like Mark Jacobson and Robert Howarth, and by grifting promoters like the American Wind Energy Association and investment...
"... We are part of a debate machine maybe, but not a denial machine. ..."
"... China is acting as a guarantor ... They invested a lot on the green economy. If there's any kind of involution, they will lose. ..."
... there are some laws which cannot be circumvented by powerful men, and the consequences of those laws are coming for us all.
But still wants to stay in the Paris Agreement?
“It was like a bunch of gangsters coming into the neighborhood and smashing windows and threatening shop owners … a shock-and-awe thuggery approach.” – Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D, Rhode Island)
"Keir Starmer just backed making you poorer – while rest of world laughed at him"
Meanwhile, Rhode Island bureaucrats give a big thumbs-up to SouthCoast Wind transmission line plan.
Michigan’s plan to rely on a Chinese company to create American jobs is dead in the water. The state pulled out of an agreement to give Gotion, Inc., $715 million in subsidies for an electric vehicle battery plant, but...
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