What is curtailment? An electricity market expert explains why states sometimes have too much wind or solar power
The US needs more low-emissions electricity to slow climate change, so curtailment isn’t a sound long-term strategy.
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What is a heat dome? An atmospheric scientist explains the weather phenomenon baking Texas and forecast to expand
Heat domes normally persist for several days in any one location, but they can last longer.
Women are leaders in the effort to address the dangers posed by the warming climate
By Alissa Jean Schafer, Energy and Policy Institute More than 90 organizations nationwide, including Women’s March, will march in defense ...
Bills in both Congress and the Florida Legislature provide a rare opportunity for bipartisanship on sea-level rise
South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Board The seas are inexorably rising, and the Florida Legislature is tackling this by creating ...
Andrew Stevenson: Floridians will first begin to feel the effects of the warming climate in their property insurance bills
An interview with Andrew Stevenson, Voloridge Investments As part of its series “The Business of Climate Change,” which highlights the ...
Climate change didn’t cause COVID-19, but it’s contributing to its spread and severity
By David Jenkins, Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship I am always a bit skeptical when advocacy groups tie a seemingly unrelated ...
The good news: Florida may have a solution to its overpopulation problem; The bad news: Our kids may all move to Atlanta
People in Florida and along the Southeast coast of the U.S. will be among those most likely to be forced ...
A small victory: Florida used “climate change” in a grant application when three other states avoided the words
Here’s good news: The State of Florida is no longer in the climate-change denier club. Southern coastal states are lining ...
Struggling in South Florida, mangroves are beginning to take root farther north
The north might no longer be as inhospitable to mangroves as it once was. Fleeing rising seas in South Florida, ...