Bloomberg Citigroup Joins Corporate Climate Fight With Swift Energy PledgeBloombergCitigroup Inc. plans to purchase or produce all of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, the company said during Climate Week New York, an annual affair of energy– and climate-related events timed to correspond with the United Nations General …Bill on Beacon Hill would eliminate fossil…

Forbes Solar Plus Storage Projects Will Increasingly Offer ResiliencyForbesEarly this month, Generate Capital, a sustainable infrastructure finance company, and Sharp Electronics Corporation’s Energy Systems and Services Group announced the commencement of a six-site solar plus storage project at the Santa Rita Union School …

Forbes Solar Tariff Case Challenges President Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’ AgendaForbesEarlier this spring, solar cell manufacturer Suniva filed for bankruptcy, in the process announcing the closure of its Michigan facility. The business subsequently petitioned the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), a federal agency that …First Solar Has a Lot Riding on Proposed Solar TarrifsMotley FoolThriving solar…

Los Angeles Times From oil refineries to solar plants, unions bend California climate change policies in their favorLos Angeles TimesNo contour of California’s vast landscape inspires such passionate devotion as its coastline, so state lawmakers recoiled when President Trump announced in April that he wanted to expand offshore drilling. The outrage was channeled into a…

Phys.Org Hubble discovers a unique type of object in the Solar SystemPhys.Org“We detected strong indications of the sublimation of water ice due to the increased solar heating—similar to how the tail of a comet is created,” explains Jessica Agarwal (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany), the team leader and … and more »

Scientists make atoms-thick ‘Post-It notes’ for solar cells and circuitsScience Daily… to make stacks of semiconductors just a few atoms thick. The technique offers scientists and engineers a simple, cost-effective method to make thin, uniform layers of these materials, which could expand capabilities for devices from solar cells to … and more »

New Scientist Have scientists really admitted climate change sceptics are right?The IndependentFor a section of the right-wing media, it was too good to miss, an opportunity to cast doubt on one of their favourite bugbears – climate change. A scientific study had estimated that there would still be a reasonable chance of restricting global …No,…

Fox News Climate models questioned: Global warming may be slower than previously thoughtFox NewsThat’s the conclusion of some of the world’s leading geoscientists, who conducted a study that found global warming is occurring more slowly than computer models forecast a decade ago. The study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, does not …Limiting Global Warming to…

Nature.com Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C may still be possible : Nature …Nature.comAnalysis suggests that researchers have underestimated how much carbon humanity can emit before reaching this level of warming. and more »

EcoWatch New Study: Global Warming Limit Can Still Be Achieved – EcoWatchEcoWatchScientists in the UK have good news for the 195 nations that pledged to limit global warming to well below 2°C: it can be done. The ideal limit of no more than … and more »