www.cnbc.com/2018/01/22/mike-bloomberg-trumps-solar-tariff-destroy-us-jobs-raise-bills.html
The idea of tariffs sharply divides the U.S. solar industry. American panel manufacturers support tariffs, since they would cut competition from cheap Chinese imports. U.S. panel installers oppose them because fewer Chinese imports mean less work putting them in place.
www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/12/uk-banks-join-multinationals-pledge-come-clean-climate-change-risks-mark-carney?utm_content=buffer1ea5b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campai…
In a statement that delighted campaigners opposed to fossil fuels, the Bank used a conference in Paris to announce that it “will no longer finance upstream oil and gas” after 2019.
The Bank ceased lending for coal-fired power stations in 2010 but has been under pressure from lobby groups also to halt the $1bn (£750m) a year it has been lending for oil and gas in developing countries.
www.macleans.ca/politics/u-s-government-shutdown-begins-on-first-anniversary-of-trump-inauguration/
Americans awoke Saturday to learn that bickering politicians in Washington had failed to keep their government in business, halting all but the most essential operations and marring the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/congress-government-shutdown-standoff-dreamers-1.4494503
The U.S. federal government shut down at the stroke of midnight Friday, halting all but the most essential operations and marring the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration in a striking display of Washington dysfunction.
ottawacitizen.com/news/world/90-days-to-day-zero-cape-town-will-be-the-first-major-city-to-run-out-of-water/wcm/cb766a64-9b24-4b57-abc8-ff6b5e149b6a
The drought-stricken South African city of Cape Town has brought forward the date when it may cut water supplies to residents by one day to April 21, figures posted on its website show.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/California-regulators-vote-unanimously-to-close-12491203.php?
California’s last nuclear power plant — Diablo Canyon, whose contentious birth helped shape the modern environmental movement — will close in 2025, state utility regulators decided Thursday.utm_content=buffer841c5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
theprovince.com/news/economy/u-s-lashes-out-over-ottawas-wto-trade-claim-just-after-higher-tariffs-announced-for-canadian-newsprint-producrs/wcm/357fcb44-d9b9-47a7-94d9-80398165cb8b
Canada launched the opening salvo in a trade war with the United States Wednesday, lodging an international complaint about the superpower’s use of punitive duties.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/01/08/bitcoin-is-the-new-middle-ages/?utm_term=.9ff1a7fd1a3b
Bitcoin changes prices too quickly to be a currency and processes transactions too slowly to be a payments system, but it is juuust right for teaching libertarians everything they don’t know about economics.
www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2126098/24-reasons-why-chinas-ban-foreign-trash-wake-call-global
Though the regulation is primarily designed to address major environmental and health issues in China, it will also be a genuine global disrupter. It has the potential to propel many waste-exporting countries – who for far too long have taken an “out of sight, out of mind” attitude to waste disposal – to adopt far more progressive disposal and recycling systems.
mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/climate/china-carbon-market
China is the world’s No. 1 polluter. It burns more coal than the rest of the world combined. It produces more than a quarter of the world’s human-caused global warming gases, nearly as much as North America and Europe put together.