Energy and Climate Change

"I haven’t done anything major in terms of renovation," he said this week. "It’s mostly just been being very mindful."

In response to a recent regulatory decision on solar net metering, three California investor-owned utilities have proposed an alternative to how distributed solar users are compensated for sending excess energy to the grid.

The Alliance works to advance cleaner and more efficient residential heating technology, particularly for low and middle-income families.

By selling the RECs instead of keeping them for yourself, you could just be helping the utility meet a goal it was already mandated to meet.

It also calls for taxing electrical production to make up for lost Coal Tax Trust Fund deposits and would create a temporary tax to fund pensions and allow displaced fossil fuel workers to train for new work.

"Today’s announcement not only underscores how critical NASA’s Earth observation program is, it is a key data point that should make policy makers stand up and take notice – now is the time to act on climate." NASA Administrator Charles Bolden

This website gets skeptical about global warming skepticism. Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer reviewed scientific literature say?

Missoulians looking to recycle glass will need to look for a new location.

Molecular biologist Jill Farrant studies a rare phenomenon that may help: "resurrection plants" — super-resilient plants that seemingly come back from the dead. Could they hold promise for growing food in our coming hotter, drier world?

Solar system costs have dropped 70 percent in six years. The upfront investment is expensive but increasingly within reach.