Tag Archives: League of Conservation Voters

I have written on a number of occasions here about the Alberta tar sands.  Like many environmentalists, I find the idea of ripping tar out of the ground with excavators the size of aircraft carriers – or sucking it up after spending months softening it with injected steam – repellent.  The greenhouse gas implications are […]

You would not think it if you were judging the world by the quality of the work of the US Senate – scary thought – but there has been considerable progress made on confronting the climate crisis:  from the EU’s (relatively) hard-charging approach, to the rapidly growing attention to clean energy and other clean tech […]