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Exporting
LNG overseas takes a
massive environmental
toll, generating huge
amounts of greenhouse
gases and pollution.
It also increases
natural gas prices, as
many Americans
struggle to pay rising
energy bills.
By
Dennis Pillion
In
the midst of a war in
Iran and skyrocketing
energy prices at home,
the Trump
administration is
pushing to boost sales
of U.S. liquefied
natural gas across
Central and Eastern
Europe.
 
Access
to more power
producers over a wider
range of the West
could lower rates, but
Wyoming regulators
will monitor the
market to see if it
penalizes the state’s
coal, oil and gas over
the next five years.
By
Jake Bolster
Wyoming’s
largest utility today
began participating in
a new “Extended Day Ahead Market” for electricity on
the Western grid, a
potentially landmark
shift in the way
energy is sold in the
state that could lower
rates as energy costs
soar.
Most
of the wild sloths
imported by a planned
tourist attraction in
Orlando did not
survive.
By
Katie Surma, Kiley
Price
The
Florida Attorney
General’s office announced a criminal investigation into the
deaths of dozens of
sloths at a
now-shuttered Orlando
business, a
development that
signals a new level of
animal-welfare
accountability in the
commercial wildlife
trade.
Participants
broke a long-standing
taboo by openly
linking oil and gas
not just to emissions,
but to war,
displacement and
economic instability.
By
Bob Berwyn
While
some major fossil fuel
producers keep pushing
for expanded oil and
gas use, which is linked to warfare, economic shocks and
ecological damage,
more than 50 countries
at the first Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil
Fuels began
developing plans to
shift toward renewable
energy systems
designed for stability
and abundance rather
than scarcity and
conflict.
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