Saturday, February 4, 2017

EARTH'S CLIMATE IS WARMING, BUT HUMAN IMPACT REMAINS UNCERTAIN: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION STANCE


Congress moving to cancel rule protecting waterways from surface mining debris.

House overturned BLM rule on natgas flaring, other natgas leakage on public, Native lands. (Methane 20x worse short-term than CO2 emissions.)

Hotter temps linked to mental health problems: study. (Republicans included.)

Save wetlands or they will emit much more CO2: experts.

Zero-emission vehicles (clean cars) could tank oil prices by '25: report. (How about clean trucks? Or just cleaner-than-now natgas trucks?)

Floating solar power market to reach $2.7B by '25: Grand View Research. $13.8M in '15. (Covers reservoirs, etc. But, then the whole ecosystems analysis of evaporation for rainfall and all.)

Maryland boosted its RPS to 25% by '20, overriding governor's veto.

Hawaii grids may have more room for utility-scale solar power.

Toshiba nuke power write-off spooking US southeast power comps.

Radiation level at Fukushima highest since '11 disaster.

Sauds set to launch 700Mw solar, wind power.

China electric bus sales ~115.7K in '16.

Faraday Future scaling back its Nevada factory plans.

Renault Zoe Europe's best selling EV.

DONG Energy doubled its profits in '16. Expects tough '17. To phase out coal power by '23.

Europe's coal dependence not as high as thought, in continual decline: EIU.

LED lighting retrofits in Hawaii giving faster paybacks than solar power.

US crude exports this year expected to surpass production of 4 OPEC countries.

US oil rig count up 17 last week. Natgas count unchanged.

Judge tossed Flint residents' class-action suit over city water.

Pittsburgh wants state review of water warning.

California snowpack 173% of average.

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