CA SENATE BILL 54 - The legislative path to reducing plastic waste in California became significantly clearer on Tuesday when the Assembly Natural Resources Committee voted 9-0 to approve a bill that targets the production of single-use plastic packaging and foodware in the state over the next decade.
CLIMATE
CO2 Removal?
CLIMATE WATCH - Last year, worldwide energy-related CO2 topped 36B tons. That’s a new world record.
China’s Stubborn Coal Addiction
FOSSIL FUELS - Mother Earth’s affair with coal goes back in time to when swampy forests predominated the planet 360 to 299 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period of the late Paleozoic Era.
The California We Know is Engineered
THE ENVIRONMENT - Nothing so illustrates the mindset of green politics, particularly in California, as the word “natural,” which is taken to mean unspoiled, pure, and better than the workings of man.
Climate Change: The New Abnormal
CLIMATE WATCH - Humans have a tendency to believe everything will be pretty much the same in the future as it has been in the past.
LA Bus Union Racism Fight Linked to Climate Catastrophe
CLIMATE WATCH - The United States is moving fast on climate change—in the wrong direction.
Logging Yosemite Will Make It More, Not Less, Vulnerable to Fire
WILDFIRES - The Fresno Bee’s Editorial Board has gone on record opposing the lawsuit, by the John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute, against a huge commercial logging project in Yosemite National Park.
The Right Wing Supreme Court Readies to Help Destroy the Planet
SCOTUS AMONG US - It appears that Republicans on the Supreme Court are preparing to light our planet on fire
Time to Force Plastic Trash Makers To Clean Up Their Mess
THE ENVIRONMENT - The moment may be at hand for Californians to turn the tide on a sea of plastic waste that environmentalists say is destroying life in the ocean, contaminating drinking water and stuffing state landfills.
Buckle Up! The Arctic’s Sizzling
THE CLIMATE - The Arctic is turning into a dream come true for doomsayers. It’s heating way too fast! Nostradamus is dancing in the street.
Global Warming: The Overshoot Dilemma
CLIMATE WATCH - Climate change and global warming, which is the largest part of the ‘change’ aspect, is suddenly getting the kind of special treatment that’s reserved for national tragedies.
China Watches as America Greens
GREEN POLITICS - The color green has long been associated with envy, but increasingly it’s becoming a pigment of mass delusion.