January 24, 2024
Via: NBC NewsKyle Schaefer is worried that his days as a fishing guide are numbered. He was one of five witnesses who appeared before the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday to detail how climate change threatens the “blue economy,” a term that […]
May 26, 2021
Via: HuffPostThree of the world’s largest oil companies faced a reckoning over climate change Wednesday as shareholder revolts and a landmark court ruling added new pressure to slash emissions. Royal Dutch Shell suffered the first blow, as a civil court in […]
March 25, 2021
Via: CNBCThe oil and gas industry’s largest trade group Thursday endorsed a price on planet-warming carbon emissions, marking a major shift after it long resisted regulatory action on climate change. The American Petroleum Institute’s move comes as President Joe Biden prepares […]
March 9, 2021
Via: ABC NewsBILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration said Tuesday that it will deliver an interim report on its suspension of oil and gas sales from federal lands and waters by summer, but officials declined to state how long the moratorium could […]
January 14, 2021
Via: The New York TimesThe overall stock market was fabulous last year, but as investors focused on climate change, renewable energy stocks did even better. Consider that while the SPDR S&P 500 Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, which tracks the benchmark S&P 500, returned 18.37 percent […]
November 11, 2020
Via: NBC NewsEconomists and market analysts say that when President-elect Joe Biden takes the oath of office in January, he will inherit a battered economy. While most metrics of economic activity have risen from the record-shattering lows they hit in March and […]
December 12, 2019
Via: FortuneUnited Nations Secretary-General Antó nio Guterres urged countries and companies Thursday to tackle climate change, saying failure to do so would mean “economic disaster.” Speaking at the annual U.N. climate meeting in Madrid, Guterres said fears that measures to cut […]