nuclear-news

Opinion:

¶ “Keystone XL is no done deal” • On paper, the TransCanada Corporation has obtained the Trump administration’s blessings to add hundreds of miles of pipeline through the Midwest. It is a permission twice denied by President Barack Obama two years ago, but it’s premature to assume the project will actually get built. [Baltimore Sun]

Protest, 2011 (chesapeakeclimate, Wikimedia Commons)

Science and Technology:

¶ Following 2016’s record high global average temperatures, and 2017’s already quite strange weather, we are now in “truly uncharted territory,” according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization. In particular, the record-low levels of sea ice extent in the Arctic and Antarctic is considered “alarming.” [CleanTechnica]

¶ Ahead of this year’s Earth Hour, researchers have proposed a new “carbon law” to enable the international community to nearly eliminate fossil-fuel emissions by 2050. In order to meet the COP21…