With the escalation of climate risks and surging insurance rates, local governments worldwide face an urgent financial reality. Cities that fail to adapt face economic erosion, declining tax bases, and increased exposure to disasters. A new report from Resilient Cities Network and Tokio Marine Group, “Under Pressure, Overdue: The Portfolio Approach and Financing Cities for Resilience”,...
With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday. A press release from Abbott’s office said he amended and renewed Texas’ wildfire disaster declaration to now include 179 counties. Read more in The Hill here.
South Texas lured Tesla, along with Exxon Mobil and other energy behemoths, with the promise of land, cheap energy and, perhaps most critically, abundant water. The companies spent billions of dollars over the past two decades building plants that use huge amounts of water to transform fossil fuels into gasoline, jet fuel and other refined products. More set...
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY (OSU) researchers have secured shale-backed funding to investigate the state’s natural hydrogen reserves. The project was one of eight to receive US$25,000 in a recent round of funding from the Hamm Institute for American Energy – the research grant provider funded by Harold Hamm, founder and CEO of major US shale producer...
Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis. Global solar generation grew by a record 31% in the first half of the year, while wind generation grew by 7.7%, according to...
Last September, Hurricane Helene caused $53 billion in damage in North Carolina, making it one of the costliest storms in that state’s history. Damage from tropical cyclones is not unheard of in a state that’s taken direct hits from 84 of them since 1851. What sets Helene apart is the fact that the bulk of...
U.S. officials in the coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. The sales are a signature piece of President Donald Trump’s ambitions for companies to dig more coal from federal lands and burn it for...
Google announced the first phase of a $4-billion data center project in West Memphis, Arkansas, an initiative that state officials have called one of the largest economic investments in state history. The facility, located near the Arkansas-Tennessee state line, will be powered by Entergy using solar power and existing generation in the area. Speakers at...
President Trump is directing his administration to approve a controversial road that could enable copper and cobalt mining in Alaska, the White House announced Monday. In a fact sheet, the White House said Trump would direct his administration to “promptly issue authorizations necessary” for the Ambler Road Project. Read more in The Hill here.
Wildfires are an increasingly common feature of life in American West, and researchers are working overtime to understand how the resulting smoke affects air quality, human health and climate change. “Wildfires do not emit ozone directly,” Jan Mandel, a professor emeritus of mathematics at University of Colorado Denver, said in a news release. “Wildfire smoke...
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