Thursday, March 16, 2023
The Secretary of Defense is not the only one pushing the existential threat of the climate crisis into clear view.
There are plenty of people in the environmental community and movement that wants this to happen. There will be independent businesses that will roll out this initiative to find and mitigate the leaks. The petroleum industry has been grossly negligent in all aspect of the climate that began decades ago with lies to the public. This effort will work and methane will be controlled to end it's very severe threat to our Earth's climate.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) (click here) today announced nearly $47 million in funding for 22 research projects to advance the development of new and innovative measurement, monitoring, and mitigation technologies to help detect, quantify, and reduce methane emissions across oil and natural gas producing regions of the United States. Methane emissions are the second largest contributor to climate change—only carbon dioxide ranks ahead of methane as a greenhouse gas source. The selected projects will help to ensure an efficient, resilient, and leak-tight U.S. natural gas infrastructure and support President Biden’s U.S. Methane Emissions Reduction Action Plan and the Biden-Harris Administration climate goal of a net-zero emissions economy by 2050.
“Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, making methane reduction a critical part of our nation’s long-term climate solution,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “The projects announced today will help DOE accelerate the deployment of technology that detects and reduces methane emissions across the oil and gas sector—our largest source of industrial methane—leading to long-lasting health and environmental benefits for communities across the country.”...
Using data from a satellite that monitors the entire planet for methane leaks and emissions, the study estimated that a gas well in Powhatan Point, damaged during a drilling operation in February 2018, leaked methane at a rate of 120 metric tons an hour for nearly 20 days. The emission rate of the Ohio leak was twice that of a widely reported 2015 gas leak at Aliso Canyon in California, and the amount of methane released was estimated to be more than some European countries emit in a typical year, according to the study....
This is also negligence of the natural resources of the United States of America. These natural resources of the USA belong to the people. The leases provided to industry to use our country's natural resources aren't strong enough to end the negligence allowed for the sake of profiteering. Why are leaks allowed to occur? Because no one says they can't. This level of negligence of the people's natural resources must end and companies held responsible in the very place they covet, the leases. The restrictions on methane leaks, all the nasty toxins of oil wells, dangerous explosions that kill employees and filthy water used by fracking can be stopped with simple words in leases and the strength of the rule of law to punish lawbreakers and jail their responsible parties including CEOs. If the rule of law was exercised and made to be vigilant over these abuses, the abuses would stop. This is all a part of environmental justice. Giving companies free reign over our nation's natural resources is wrong!
By Sid Perkins
Natural gas, long touted as a cleaner burning alternative to coal, has a leakage problem. (click here) A new study has found that leaks of methane, the main ingredient in natural gas and itself a potent greenhouse gas, are twice as big as official tallies suggest in major cities along the U.S. eastern seaboard. The study suggests many of these fugitive leaks come from homes and businesses—and could represent a far bigger problem than leaks from the industrial extraction of the fossil fuel itself.
"This is an issue that people tend to ignore when trying to estimate methane emissions," says Kathryn McKain, an atmospheric scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, who wasn't involved in the new research. When compared with the global amount of natural and human-driven methane emissions, she notes, "These emissions are small, but they're preventable."...
Naysayers are grossly out of step with most people regarding climate.
10 March 2023
By George Monbiot
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (click here) will bring many forms of fallout. One of the most obvious consequences is that the biggest banks – Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, Bank of America – will probably get even bigger. That is why we’re joining protests across the United States outside hundreds of those banks’ branches on Tuesday, 21 March: if they’re going to hold that much power over the planet’s economy, we need them to recognize and help with our great crises. We need them not to do what they did last century, which is to ignore or exacerbate our deepest troubles....
April 22, 2021
By David Vergun
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke today at the Leaders Summit on Climate. (click here)
"Today, no nation can find lasting security without addressing the climate crisis. We face all kinds of threats in our line of work, but few of them truly deserve to be called existential. The climate crisis does," he said, adding that "climate change is making the world more unsafe and we need to act."...
By George Monbiot
In 2014, (click here) the Guardian asked me to nominate my hero of the year. To some people’s surprise, I chose Russell Brand. I loved the way he energised young people who had been alienated from politics. I claimed, perhaps hyperbolically, he was “the best thing that has happened to the left in years” (in my defence, there wasn’t, at the time, much competition).
Today, I can scarcely believe it’s the same man. I’ve watched 50 of his recent videos, with growing incredulity. He appears to have switched from challenging injustice to conjuring phantoms. If, as I suspect it might, politics takes a very dark turn in the next few years, it will be partly as a result of people like Brand....
Today, I can scarcely believe it’s the same man. I’ve watched 50 of his recent videos, with growing incredulity. He appears to have switched from challenging injustice to conjuring phantoms. If, as I suspect it might, politics takes a very dark turn in the next few years, it will be partly as a result of people like Brand....
It is unfortunate Russell Brand has become corrupt when it comes to his statements about climate, but, he is a growing group of people identified as incompetent in their messaging or down right corrupt.
Environmental Justice is taking hold. The concept has developed over the past seven years. First, it was ignored as nothing but noise makers, but, today it carries clout with voters of effected communities. Environmental Justice is more the the climate, but, it weighs in from time to time, when storms over take drainage and people die in basement apartments.
16 March 2023
Real people are suffering due to the lack of status of their communities in a larger picture. These communities add up to voter rolls that have become aware of their own power to change the trajectory. There is also an administration in DC listening and willing to do the work to turn the corner on adverse outcomes due to environment of living conditions.
This is just one example of the work the Biden/Harris administration is conducting to change quality of life for all Americans.
March 8, 2023
Washington - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (click here) announced the availability of $16 million for two new grant opportunities to support states and Tribes in providing technical assistance to businesses seeking to develop and adopt pollution prevention (P2) practices that advance environmental justice in underserved communities. EPA has published two Request for Applications for P2 investments, which were made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, including the Pollution Prevention Grant: Environmental Justice in Communities, and the Pollution Prevention Grant: Environmental Justice Through Safer and More Sustainable Products programs.
“For too long, underserved communities have suffered the harmful effects of pollution across the country,” said EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention Jennie Romer. “President Biden’s investment in America is supercharging our efforts to protect more communities than ever before. These new grants will advance environmental justice by equipping American businesses with resources that save money, prevent pollution at the source, reduce the use of hazardous materials, and cut climate pollution.”
The United States produces billions of pounds of pollution each year and spends billions of dollars per year controlling this pollution. Preventing pollution at the source, also known as P2 or source reduction, rather than managing waste after it is produced, is an important part of advancing a sustainable economic and environmental infrastructure....
“For too long, underserved communities have suffered the harmful effects of pollution across the country,” said EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention Jennie Romer. “President Biden’s investment in America is supercharging our efforts to protect more communities than ever before. These new grants will advance environmental justice by equipping American businesses with resources that save money, prevent pollution at the source, reduce the use of hazardous materials, and cut climate pollution.”
The United States produces billions of pounds of pollution each year and spends billions of dollars per year controlling this pollution. Preventing pollution at the source, also known as P2 or source reduction, rather than managing waste after it is produced, is an important part of advancing a sustainable economic and environmental infrastructure....
This is from the White House and it is all based in facts. There are two major legislative accomplishments by this administration that is pushing the country toward a better energy future.
March 9, 2023
...In signing the Inflation Reduction Act last year, (click here) the President also secured the largest investment to advance energy security and combat climate change in American history—all while lowering energy costs for the American people. The Administration is continuing to implement the Inflation Reduction Act, which is already galvanizing our clean energy transition and making clean and energy efficient technologies more affordable for American families. At the same time, the Administration has launched numerous initiatives to accelerate America’s clean energy future and advance environmental justice—from jumpstarting an electric transportation future that is Made in America, to announcing new climate-smart agriculture and forestry initiatives, to investing in the places that kept America’s lights on for generations, to implementing the President’s Justice40 Initiative that ensures 40 percent of the benefits of Federal investments in climate and clean energy are delivered to disadvantaged communities. The Budget invests in clean energy across America, bringing jobs to rural communities and cities, leaving no one behind....
This movement to better energy sources is not new. Some of these initiatives are spring boarding off the Obama White House energy initiatives. So, this is a strong position from which real change is occurring and Americans can plot a better future for their children. The Climate Crisis is a threat to the future and Americans are taking it seriously.
Is climate an existential threat? The USA military says it is and that has been the case for more than a decade now.
By David Vergun
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke today at the Leaders Summit on Climate. (click here)
"Today, no nation can find lasting security without addressing the climate crisis. We face all kinds of threats in our line of work, but few of them truly deserve to be called existential. The climate crisis does," he said, adding that "climate change is making the world more unsafe and we need to act."...
The USA military is backing up it's focus with issues of environmental justice, too. It is calling forward those in the military exposed to burn pits and the water at Camp LeJune. The USA military is taking responsibility for environmental threats no matter the source. One example is the use of biofuels for jets. Yes, jets. The USA military was among the first to make climate a priority and why? Because it is a national security issue and has been for some time.
So, people like Russell Brand may be making a lot of noise, but, people are more in tune with the truth of climate and less willing to listen to the noise makers.
Now is the time for the energy paradigm change. It can't happen fast enough.
By Herman K. Trabish
Federal clean energy supports in the August 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, (click here) could transform the U.S. economy, analysts widely agree.
By December, announcements for “over $40 billion” in new capital were committed to over 13 GW of new clean energy, and 20 manufacturing facilities representing over 6,850 new jobs, the American Clean Power Association, or ACP, reported in December.
But by March 1, nearly 4,000 comments submitted to the U.S. Treasury Department by clean energy advocates and analysts had requested clarification on how investors can be certain of qualifying for the IRA’s new and extended tax credits, grants, and programs....
American consumers are not souring on banking because of SVB.
A customer (click here) stands at an ATM machine at a Bank of America office in Burbank, California August 19, 2011.
Bank of America Corp. (click here) mopped up more than $15 billion in new deposits in a matter of days, emerging as one of the big winners after the collapse of three smaller banks dented confidence in the safety of regional lenders.
The inflows offer a first glimpse into the deluge of deposits that made its way to the country’s largest banks as customers fearful of a spreading crisis sought refuge in the firms seen as too big to fail.
The money flowing into the second-largest US bank was described by people with direct knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified as the information isn’t public....
Bank of America Corp. (click here) mopped up more than $15 billion in new deposits in a matter of days, emerging as one of the big winners after the collapse of three smaller banks dented confidence in the safety of regional lenders.
The inflows offer a first glimpse into the deluge of deposits that made its way to the country’s largest banks as customers fearful of a spreading crisis sought refuge in the firms seen as too big to fail.
The money flowing into the second-largest US bank was described by people with direct knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified as the information isn’t public....
Communists
Sometimes they are reasonable leaders looking for peaceful co-existence with the Free World. They understand the benefits of peace, like focusing on domestic issues that increase citizens quality of life. They understand under the shield of peace international relations are about trade and growing a country’s wealth. They value peaceful venues like the Olympics and the World Cup and the pride those venues bring to the people. Icons of competition that translate into childhood dreams of being a great representative to the sports and country. Participating in trials that reveal greater human accomplishment.
Then there are the ideologues. Putin and Xi are ideologues. Nothing else matters except the global rule of an ideal regime that kills who they have to and want to, in order to ensure communism lives on forever or at least until the sun supernovas.
The reason the Russian jet dumped fuel was to hide the operation and the crash and loss of the drone would be a mystery and proof of inferior American weaponry. The Russians are afraid of the USA and hide their aggression so the world thinks it all an unfortunate failure of technology.
There are comments and articles I read stating the arming of the Free World is sending the wrong signal and is guaranteeing a path to unthinkable war.
The only way democracy and freedom exists is through strength and overwhelming ability of citizens as soldiers, housewives, professionals of all venues of human imagination and application and even great businesspersons that can lead the wealth and growth of a country.
The world has witnessed a genocide upon an entire country of people. There is no limit for the entire world to prepare for an unthinkable war. No one in this world wants it, either. There is only one path forward. We did not choose it, but, we will end it.
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