Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: Blood & Gore
In 2004, Gore and a Goldman Sachs investment manager named David Blood teamed up to form Generation Investment Management. The Blood & Gore investment firm now promotes itself as a…
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Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: It Could Have Happened Here
FRom 2000 to 2021, American CO2 emissions per capita fell 30.2 percent. In Germany, the nation Gore has praised as the shining policy example for how to save the planet,…
Ceres Inc.: The ESG Old Guard
In 1989, decades before the abbreviation “ESG” was in common media usage, the nonprofit Ceres Inc. was founded to promote left-leaning climate and economic governance at major investment firms and…
Hey NPR: Why Are Environmentalists Opposing Nuclear Power?
This week NPR ran a report titled “Why Even Environmentalists Are Supporting Nuclear Power Today.” It gives deserved praise to advocates such as Michael Shellenberger and Mothers for Nuclear, following…
Anheuser-Busch InBev: Lame Leadership on Land Use
A March 2017 CNBC headline showed a royal greenwashing treatment at work for the King of Beers: “Beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev commits to 100 percent renewable energy.” More green scrubbing…
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation: A Circular Economy Opposed to Conservation
The membership network of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) includes more than 200 corporations, governments, funders, and other familiar entities. EMF claims to be dedicated to conservation and protecting the…
RE100: Crusaders Against Atomic Energy
Driving quickly to “zero carbon” requires the energy equivalent of a Corvette. The RE100 folks want to get there with a Trabant, an option so unreliable it is unlikely to…
RGGI Update: Virginia and RGGI
There are currently 11 Northeast and mid-Atlantic states participating in the multistate climate change agreement, widely known as Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), built around “cap-and-trade” regulations that limit carbon…
RGGI Update: Clean Energy’s Dirty Footprint
The “clean energy” initiatives that flow out of the climate change regulations are neither clean nor green because wind and solar energy projects come with their own environmental baggage.
RGGI Update: Pennsylvania Legislature Resists
While regulatory relief efforts gather steam in Virginia, lawmakers in Pennsylvania are taking notice. Aptly named the Keystone State for the crucial role it played in the founding and development…