USDA announces $1.57 billion in funding for clean energy across North Dakota The USDA has announced about $6 billion in nationwide clean energy investments this week, more than $1.5 billion of which was awarded to the Peace Garden State. 01/12/2025 - 5:11 pm | View Link
How Many People Work in the Coal Industry? In 2024, just 42,600 people worked in the U.S. coal mining industry. Climate change, a desire for clean energy, and better technology are forces behind the decline. 01/11/2025 - 7:27 am | View Link
Sunderland clean energy firm unveils £1bn investment plans set to create hundreds of jobs Since the acquisition, OnPath has been amassing a portfolio of onshore wind, solar and energy storage projects, and currently owns and operates 10 onshore wind farms across Scotland and northern ... 01/10/2025 - 3:22 am | View Link
How the Inflation Reduction Act is impacting green job creation IRENA’s Renewable Energy and Jobs: Annual Review 2022 reports that employment in renewable energy could rise to more than 38 million globally by the end of the decade. Worldwide employment in the clean energy sector grew by 700,000 from 2020-2021, reaching 12.7 million jobs, it says. 01/11/2025 - 12:41 pm | View Website
The future of green jobs and work in the sustainable economy Employment has grown in areas such as energy efficiency of buildings, pipe insulation, recycling and innovative renewable technologies. Despite the unprecedented challenges associated with this transformation, this new green economy paradigm brings an unmatched potential to properly plan for a sustainable evolution of our professional duties. 01/11/2025 - 5:03 am | View Website
These countries have the most green jobs | World Economic Forum Last year, there was the highest-ever increase in renewable energy jobs, with an 18% annual rise, a new report says. Green jobs rose from 13.7 million in 2022 to 16.2 million in 2023, according to Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2024 , a study from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Labour ... 01/10/2025 - 12:06 pm | View Website
Renewable energy jobs are at risk from a skills gap But we’re seeing encouraging signs from countries such as India and Jordan, which have made distributed renewable energy - and training for renewable energy jobs - key national priorities. India’s Skill Council for Green Jobs , launched as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s massive national solar push, including in rural areas, has ... 01/9/2025 - 10:30 pm | View Website
The renewable energy transition is creating a green jobs boom Its Renewable Energy and Jobs: Annual Review 2022 report, put together in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), shows that an increasing number of countries are creating jobs in the renewable energy sector. It says this jobs boom could increase worldwide employment in renewable energy to more than 38 million by 2030. 01/8/2025 - 4:12 pm | View Website
Gov. Gavin Newsom posted on social media that California is preventing insurance companies from being able to cancel or not renew the policies of Southern California wildfire victims on Friday. Via GVWire:
On Thursday, the California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has issued a mandatory one-year moratorium on insurance cancellations and non-renewals for Southern California homeowners affected by wildfires.
The measure, stemming from Gov.
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Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, and the rocket company is poised for its most defining moment to date: sending a vehicle to orbit for the first time. Via CNN:
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is set to make its inaugural launch attempt as soon as 1 a.m.
The wildfires sweeping through LA are a heartbreaking reminder of our times. I spoke with one of my best friends Adam Roth, who lives in Pasadena, about what it’s been like on the ground. He and his family had to abandon their home, not knowing what they’d return to. Thankfully, as of now, his house is ok.
On this day in 1962 Chubby Checker's song "The Twist" (which is credited with starting the dance craze of the same name) went to #1 in the charts two years after first reaching number one spot.
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Here we go again. CNN's Jake Tapper allows another Republican senator to dance around his questions and lie to his face. This time it was Alabama Sen. Katie Britt. We all remember Britt from her infamous SOTU response which was trolled perfectly by Scarlett Johansson on Saturday Night Live.
Britt was a guest on this Sunday's State of the Union, and was asked by Tapper about her support for corrupt Trump nominee to be Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and Britt responded by ignoring Bondi's election denialism, pretending there's any reason to believe she won't politicize the department, and continuing to spreading the lie that the DOJ was politicized under Biden.
TAPPER: You're on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi will testify before your committee later this week.
Last Monday, the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a rare “particularly dangerous situation” (PDS) red flag warning to Los Angeles and Ventura counties about incoming strong winds. “This is about as bad as it gets in terms of fire weather,” the warning for Tuesday through Thursday said.
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Over the next three days, fires whipped by gusts of up to 100 m.p.h.