Merkel’s Green Shift Forces Germany to Burn More Coal - Bloomberg

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government says RWE AG (RWE)’s new power plant that can supply 3.4 million homes aids her plan to exit nuclear energy and switch to cleaner forms of generation. It’s fired with coal.

California's cap-and-trade must stand firm for our future | Examiner Editorial | San Francisco Examiner

By now, everyone can see the looming consequences of global warming. This year’s drought has devastated the nation’s crops. The corn harvest is expected to drop by 13 percent from last year, and the soybean harvest is expected to drop by 12 percent. The price of food — from the staples themselves to the beef produced by cows that feed on corn — will steeply rise.

The problem is clear: Greenhouse gases are contributing to climate change, which will raise the temperature and fundamentally alter our global ecosystem. Heavy industry produces greenhouse gases. Capping them through government mandates is the reasonable first step toward heading off this potentially catastrophic crisis.
...If heavy industries want to keep pumping greenhouse gases into the air, they can pay for it — just as California state representatives have demanded.

America's Cup race going green by land and by sea | San Francisco Examiner

“This first series of races will be an excellent opportunity to put some of the well-laid sustainability plans into practice and develop additional lessons learned for the next big event,” said Melanie Nutter, director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment.
...The regatta will be the first major sporting event in San Francisco to prohibit the sale or distribution of single-use plastic bags and water bottles at all of its event sites. Organizers also will be estimating the event’s carbon footprint and attempting to compensate for the emissions it generates.

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