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Category Archives: Natural Gas
CARB Web Conferences on Carbon Neutrality
CARB Web Conferences on Carbon Neutrality Instead of reporting on two packed CARB (California Air Resources Board) short web conferences for California, I will give my impressions and critique. The first was on Carbon Neutrality: Scenarios for Deep Decarbonization, and … Continue reading
Posted in Air Quality, Autos, CAFE Standards, California Smog, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Climate Education, Climate Science, Donald Trump, Electric Power, Energy Efficiency, Fossil Fuel Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Natural Gas, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Trump Administration, White House
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Human Breakouts as Enhancements of Climate Change
Human Breakouts as Enhancements of Climate Change We have been warned of several possible tipping points that may occur from climate change. They are physical or chemical in origin, or involve atmospheric or oceanic flows. But there are also human … Continue reading
Posted in 2020 Election, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Science, Coal, Donald Trump, Electric Power, Fossil Fuel Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Mayor's Climate Action Plan, Natural Gas, Paris Climate Accord, Paris Climate Agreement, Solar Energy, Trump Administration, Trump on Climate Change, US Oil, Wind Energy
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Keys to Climate Action
Keys to Climate Action This is a talk that I gave to OLLI on National, State, Cities, and Businesses involved in Climate Action. It also covers utilities, and individual actions. It emphasizes California, wildfires, and sea level rise predictions and … Continue reading
Posted in 2020 Election, California Power Mixes, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Education, Coal, Coastal Flooding, Donald Trump, Electric Power, Fire Risks, Fossil Fuel Energy, Green Rate Plans, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Los Angeles Congested Traffic, Mayor's Climate Action Plan, Natural Gas, Nuclear Energy, Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes, Paris Climate Agreement, Power Content Labels, Renewable Energy, Smog worldwide, Solar Energy, Summary of Climate Topics for Southern California, Transportation, Trump Administration, Trump on Climate Change, UC Irvine, US Climate Mayors, World Smog
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California Utilities’ Green Power Plans
California Utilities’ Green Power Plans California utilities are now also filing their Green Power plans with their Power Content Labels. We examine those of the major utilities in our previous post summarizing their normal power sources. Southern California Edison: Green … Continue reading
Comparison of California Utilities Power Sources And Emissions for 2017
We compare the energy sources for the major California utilities with each other, as well as with the overall California sources, and the US overall sources. For each, we calculate the emissions per kWh. Undisclosed sources are taken to be … Continue reading
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz’s Talk at Distinctive Voices at the Beckman
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz’s Talk at Distinctive Voices at the Beckman ”Accelerating the Clean Energy Transformation” Prof. Ernest Moniz was President Obama’s Secretary of Energy from 2013 to Jan. 2017. He worked with Secretary of State Kerry to negotiate the … Continue reading
Projected Carbon Tax Costs for Households in California and Orange County
per year. Coal is not of mix of our local utilities, and only 4% of in-state power is produced by coal. There is more used from out-of-state by long range LADWP contracts. The rate per therm of SoCalGas for natural … Continue reading
Trump’s Sellout of Our Health to Big Coal is Truly Scandalous
Trump’s Sellout of Our Health to Big Coal is Truly Scandalous Trump has put forward an energy plan to the remade Environment Destruction Agency that will not only will not slow climate change, but will condemn us to decades more … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 Midterm Election, Air Quality, American Lung Association, California Power Mixes, California Smog, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Coastal Flooding, Donald Trump, Electric Power, EPA, Fossil Fuel Energy, Green Rate Plans, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Mayor's Climate Action Plan, Natural Gas, Ocean Acidification, Paris Climate Accord, Paris Climate Agreement, Politics, Sea Level Rise, Solar Energy, Trump on Climate Change, Wind Energy
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Comparison of the New 2017 California Power Content Label with That of 2016
Comparison of the New 2017 California Power Content Label with That of 2016. The new SC Edison 2017 Power Content Label also includes the California 2017 Power Content Label. We will present that and compare it to the 2016 Power … Continue reading
SC Edison 2017 Power Mix Compared With 2016, and Green Rate Plans
SC Edison 2017 Power Mix Compared With 2016, and Green Rate Plans A perhaps early version of the 2017 Power Content Label for SC Edison has appeared called the July 2018 version. We will compare that with the 2016 label. … Continue reading