Carbon dioxide removal: The right thing at the wrong time?
We can’t keep digging up and reburying carbon in the ground in a perpetual cycle. Carbon dioxide removal may someday be needed, but it shouldn't be a priority now.
We can’t keep digging up and reburying carbon in the ground in a perpetual cycle. Carbon dioxide removal may someday be needed, but it shouldn't be a priority now.
The current oil crash could soon mean hundreds, or even thousands more abandoned drilling sites. Who will pay to clean up the mess?
Like incandescent light bulbs and the coal-fired power plants, the internal combustion engines that power our cars and trucks are woefully inefficient - and major sources of pollution. What would it take to bring the era fossil fuel-powered transportation to an end?
February's Las Vegas Democratic debate saw the discussion of an idea with dangerous implications: that cracking down on methane emissions from fracking can turn natural gas into a climate-friendly "bridge fuel." This idea represents a new twist on an old, debunked argument. But it’s still wrong.
The Trump administration’s FY2021 budget proposal provides yet another window on the administration’s indifference to the environment and disregard for America’s public lands legacy.
Concern about the Trump administration's proposed rollback of methane rules shouldn’t distract us from the fundamental, ugly truth about natural gas: Even if it were produced with no leaks at all, it is a fossil fuel that makes global warming worse – and thus moving off natural gas must be a key part of the nation’s response to the climate crisis.