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California Does the Right Thing(s)

California Does the Right Thing(s)

Further to my post immediately below, Californians yesterday showed the world that they, living in the most-populous US state, and the eighth largest economy in the world, care enough about their public health, environment, jobs and the state of the world’s climate system to categorically reject the attempt to roll back their GHG regulations. With […]

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Election Day for the Climate

Election Day for the Climate

I’ve been sitting in yesterday afternoon and this morning on some fascinating discussions on the state of play of GHG regulation, how US politics is influencing our work on climate and energy, and what the world is going to look like tomorrow after the mid-term elections here.  (More on that later.) For the moment, the […]

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More Offshore Wind

More Offshore Wind

I noted in the last post below how the UK is ramping up its offshore wind industry and providing the port infrastructure to do this efficiently and in a timely fashion.  I also noted recently the major boost that Google’s Eastern Seaboard offshore cable initiative is giving the industry and that the Cape Wind project […]

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Backlash

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 […]

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