The Force Is With Clean Energy: 10 Predictions for 2018 | Bloomberg New Energy Finance

The Force Is With Clean Energy: 10 Predictions for 2018 | Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Shuttered coal plant fixer-uppers for sale all over the U.S.

Shuttered coal plant fixer-uppers for sale all over the U.S.

By 2020, renewables will be cheaper than fossil fuels around the world

By 2020, renewables will be cheaper than fossil fuels around the world

Illinois' Teachable Moment: The True Cost of Coal, Slavery and Historical Markers

Illinois' Teachable Moment: The True Cost of Coal, Slavery and Historical Markers

Big Oil strikes it rich in tax overhaul and looks to repeal landmark transparency law

Big Oil strikes it rich in tax overhaul and looks to repeal landmark transparency law

Enraged Opponents Vow Nonviolent Resistance After Louisiana Pipeline Approved

Enraged Opponents Vow Nonviolent Resistance After Louisiana Pipeline Approved

Join or die: How utilities are coping with 100% renewable energy goals

Join or die: How utilities are coping with 100% renewable energy goals

Eco-Activists to Oil Company CEO: You want to destroy the earth? We will hold you accountable.

Read the statement by the activists who paid a "nocturnal visit" to the house of this oil company CEO...

"His dream of becoming rich through the destruction of territory will not come to pass. Collective efforts of earth defense – blockades, support camps, demos, education campaigns – as well as all the autonomous initiatives put forward by a multitude of indigenous and non-indigenous groups will be much more powerful than the work of Mr. Lavoie and Junex can accomplish in one life."

Missouri Air Conservation Commission approves plan to show EPA that Jefferson County air is cleaner

Missouri Air Conservation Commission approves plan to show EPA that Jefferson County air is cleaner

Guns and Oil -- good, but a bit unsettling intro pic for Global Energy. What do Idaho and Texas have in common?

Illuminating interview with Guns and Oil Beer founder Cary Prewitt (warning: offensive images and language in this interview and on this website):
https://totalfratmove.com/dudes-doing-business-guns-oil-beers-cary-prewitt/

Key quote: "I came up with the name 'Guns and Oil' which I thought really represented the great American values, and our purpose statement today is to be purveyors of the great American values... boldness, character, opportunity, grit, and innovation..." 

Funds Managing $670 Billion React to Norway Oil ‘Revolution’

Funds Managing $670 Billion React to Norway Oil ‘Revolution’

Global Energy and the American Dream: As we have been saying for years, we are killing civilians in the name of fighting terrorism, in what is really a war fueled by a long history of oil militarism, and the killing continues

Heart wrenching.

The Uncounted (NY Times Magazine)

https://nyti.ms/2jwGChm

Could a Marshall Plan for the Planet Tackle the Climate Crisis?

Could a Marshall Plan for the Planet Tackle the Climate Crisis?

'Tobacco at a cancer summit': Trump coal push savaged at climate conference

'Tobacco at a cancer summit': Trump coal push savaged at climate conference

Some state-level policies really do curb energy sector emissions

Some state-level policies really do curb energy sector emissions

Fossil fuel emissions will reach an all-time high in 2017, scientists say — dashing hopes of progress

Fossil fuel emissions will reach an all-time high in 2017, scientists say — dashing hopes of progress

As feds focus on baseload, grid modernization is sweeping the nation

As feds focus on baseload, grid modernization is sweeping the nation

The United States of Toxins in Graphic Relief

The United States of Toxins in Graphic Relief

Southwestern Missouri utility seeks to retire coal plant early as it adds wind generation

Southwestern Missouri utility seeks to retire coal plant early as it adds wind generation

Southwestern Missouri utility seeks to retire coal plant early as it adds wind generation

Southwestern Missouri utility seeks to retire coal plant early as it adds wind generation

#universitycapture: Enbridge to Nowhere | Public Accountability Initiative

Enbridge to Nowhere | Public Accountability Initiative

Watchdog: UMD’s pipeline study was polluted by Enbridge money | City Pages

#universitycapture



Watchdog: UMD’s pipeline study was polluted by Enbridge money | City Pages

Blockadia, coming to a fossil fuel epicenter near you: Blockadia map reveals global scale of anti-fossil fuel movement

Blockadia map reveals global scale of anti-fossil fuel movement

And here's the map: http://ejatlas.org/featured/blockadia

Today's Fossil Fuels are Bad for US News: Living near polluted roads boosts risk of fractured bones, scientists warn

Living near polluted roads boosts risk of fractured bones, scientists warn

New coal survival strategy: gin up baseless fears about "reliability". Peabody-funded study finds Navajo coal plant needed for grid reliability

First it was "clean coal".



Then it was "energy poverty."



Now the coal mafia is trying to gin up fear about "grid reliability."



All of it is nonsense.



Peabody-funded study finds Navajo coal plant needed for grid reliability

A Coal Boss’ Voter Education Campaign - Daily Yonder

A Coal Boss’ Voter Education Campaign - Daily Yonder

Why the Demand to Divest Matters, Even Beyond Fossil Fuels: Endowments Boom as Colleges Bury Earnings Overseas

Endowments Boom as Colleges Bury Earnings Overseas

Energy Realities: Natural gas is now cheaper than coal to produce electricity. By 2022, onshore wind power is projected to be nearly half the cost of natural gas.

Energy Realities

Getting ready for Spring 2018: Here are the books that we will be reading in 'Global Energy and the American Dream'

Put in the book orders today for next Spring, these are the books -- 

I'm excited to get two new ones on the list - Powell on the Navajo and coal, and Jones' history of electricity in the US. 

Mitchell is now part of the necessary canon for understanding oil, militarism and war in the Middle East.  

Mitchell, Timothy. 2013. Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. London: Verso. 978-1781681169.

Powell, Dana E. 2017. Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energyin the Navajo Nation. Durham: Duke University Press.  978-0822369943

Jones, Christopher F. 2014. Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.  978-0674970922

Missouri wants ideas on how to spend money from Volkswagen settlement

Missouri wants ideas on how to spend money from Volkswagen settlement

St. Louis adopts a 100 percent renewable energy goal

St. Louis adopts a 100 percent renewable energy goal

Judge Allows 'Necessity' Defense by Climate Activists in Oil Pipeline Protest

Judge Allows 'Necessity' Defense by Climate Activists in Oil Pipeline Protest

Moniz: Utilities should prepare for very low carbon future

Moniz: Utilities should prepare for very low carbon future

SNL: Trump stacking roster with coal players after promising to revive sector

SNL: Trump stacking roster with coal players after promising to revive sector

Eversource, Avangrid artificially constrained gas pipeline capacity for years, report argues

Eversource, Avangrid artificially constrained gas pipeline capacity for years, report argues

How Missouri Politics Works: Or, why electric co-ops should stop resisting solar and embrace change that will be good for consumers: Will Gov. Eric Greitens keep his promise to clean up state government?

Will Gov. Eric Greitens keep his promise to clean up state government?

Rhodium Group » What the CPP Would Have Done

Rhodium Group » What the CPP Would Have Done

Updated: DOE cost recovery rule divides power sector in House hearing

Updated: DOE cost recovery rule divides power sector in House hearing

EPA misses deadline for ozone standard attainment designations

EPA misses deadline for ozone standard attainment designations

EPA under Pruitt chips away at democratic process of public comment: Coal-Ash Regulations to be Weakened

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/public-interest-groups-decry-epa-s-utility-friendly-move-on/article_3c7b86bd-ec4b-599c-a72b-29b86ccc71b8.html