"...environmentally, California rooftop solar is shown to generate no grid congestion relief... and, economics-wise, it does not appear to offer much more than a hype-and-pump scheme."
"In short, we have had the 'perfect storm' for dense smoke over the Bay Area and unfortunately this pattern is not going to shift in a radical way until next Tuesday. "
"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor...Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!"
Police in Northern California said five people have been found dead in their vehicles in Paradise, California after the Camp Fire burned through nearly the entire town.
In a setback for the Trump administration, a Federal judge halted construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline late on Thursday on the grounds that the U.S. government did not complete a full analysis of the environmental impact of the TransCanada project.
"What China needs to offset both its growing oil and gas dependency is more domestic production, but therein lies the problem. China's oil fields are maturing and it’s unlikely that significant discoveries can be found to replace depletion reserves. "
