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Category Archives: Actions
When Will Electric Vehicles Take Over?
The New York Times has an in-depth story trying to anticipate when electric vehicles will rule the roads. Volvo and GM have goals of 2030 and 2035 respectively to end combustion engine production and others companies are sure to follow … Continue reading
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Tagged electric vehicles, End of Combustion Engine, End of Fossil Fuel
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Biden Agency Advances Wind Farm Off Massachusetts Coast
Politico reports: The Interior Department said on Monday it had completed its environmental review for a massive wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, a key step toward final approval of the long-stalled project that will play a prominent role … Continue reading
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Tagged Biden, Department of Interior, Massachusetts, offshore wind, renewables, Vineyard Wind, wind power
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Opinion: Sec. Vilsack Listen to Family Forest Owners
Since 81 percent of New Hampshire is forested and 52 percent of that is owned by families, it will do well for woodlot owners to pay attention to the role and potential economic beneftis family woodlot owners, especially those in … Continue reading
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Tagged Carbon markets, family owned forests, Tom Martin, Tom Vilsack
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Biden Decrees Mobilizing Civilian Climate Corps
On April 5, 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps, the CCC. One of the New Deal’s more popular programs. On January 27, 2021 President Joe Biden signed the comprehensive Executive Order on Tackling … Continue reading
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Tagged Civilian Climate Corps, Executive Order, Joe Biden, Secretary of the Interior
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Biden Restarts Offshore Vineyard Wind Project
The Boston Globe reports that with Trump out of the way: The long-delayed Vineyard Wind offshore project has been put back on track by the Biden administration. The story adds: Vineyard Wind, a joint venture of Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure … Continue reading
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Tagged Amanda Lefton, Biden, Heather Zichal, Massachusetts, offshore wind, Vineyard Wind
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Biden Must Confront Three Sources of Global Warming
New York Times reporter Coral Davenport talking of President Biden’s climate policy challenges on The Daily says: There are three main sources of planet warming greenhouse gases in the U.S. economy…you have to drastically cut each one of these…pollution from … Continue reading
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Tagged Biden, coal plants, energy predictions, EVs, Global Warming, methane gas, New York Times Daily, oil well leaks, transportation, US Congress
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Maine Decree Could Benefit Small Woodlot Owners
Maine Governor Janet Mills established a task force: …to develop a voluntary, incentive-based program for woodland owners of 10 to 10,000 acres and forestry practitioners to increase carbon storage in Maine’s forests. The Maine Forest Carbon Program task force decree and who … Continue reading
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Tagged Carbon Forst Taskforce, carbon offset, forests, Gov. Janet Mills, Maine, woodlots
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A Trend: Decarbonizing Atmosphere Will Boost Economy
We have been saying it for a while, but it is again reinforced in this Atlantic Magazines Weekly Planet newsletter: taken together…the world’s most powerful financial institutions believe that the future is decarbonized—and that, far from hurting the economy, climate action … Continue reading
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Tagged European Union, hydrofluorocarbons, US Congress
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Drawdown Conference, Networking Event Jan. 7-9
An upcoming virtual conference sponsored in part by Project Drawdown, from which the Sandwich Climate Action Coalition got its initial inspiration, is set for early January 2021. The international conference in full or part might be of interested to readers … Continue reading
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Tagged climate conference, Energy Chapter, January 2021, NCSE, Project Drawdown, Sandwich Master Plan
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California to Phase Out Combustion Vehicle Sales by 2035
The Washington Post reports: California, the world’s fifth-largest economy and the state that created U.S. car culture, will stop selling gasoline-powered automobiles within 15 years, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Wednesday. The articled adds: Transportation currently accounts for the largest … Continue reading
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Tagged California, electric vehicles, Gavin Newsom
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