The news this week ranged from good to depressing, from new methane rules (good) to 400pm in the air (depressing.) We try to put it all in perspective.
• The administration proposes methane emissions regulations.
• Global CO2 levels are over 400ppm.
• US India climate talks are proceeding.
• Worcester will try time-based electical rates.
• Gov. Baker appoints an energy team. But is it a team of rivals? It has a gas-tax advocate (see here) and the Senate wants to work on the climate issues (see here .)
• Should we build and then tear down an Olympic Stadium?
• A report on future gas demand was released at the very end of the Patrick Administration. But the origin and use of fracking sand is very informative.
• Bernie Sanders proposed an amendment to the KXL approval bill.
• The move Selma should give Climate Hawks something to think about. A couple of years ago, joe Romm posted a blog think about Martin Luther King and climate activism.
See the links at https://massclimateaction.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/the-good-the-bad-and-the-inspiring-the-climate-minute-podcast/
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Because we recognize the necessity of personal accountability for our actions, because we accept responsibility for building a durable future and because we believe it is our patriotic duty as citizens to speak out, we must insist that the United States put a price on carbon.
Thanks for listening.
…Ted McIntyre
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