Asia is ramping up its use of fossil fuels to cover energy shortages caused by the Iran war

Asia is ramping up its use of fossil fuels to cover energy shortages caused by the Iran war

Governments across Asia are increasing their use of coal, the dirtiest fuel, as they try to cover the huge energy deficit caused by the US-Israel war against Iran. This process has produced warnings from climate experts who point to the negative environmental impact of coal, and they say that the energy crisis should be an … Read more

War on Iran Is the Beginning of the End for Fossil Fuels – CleanTechnica

Iran war

Support CleanTechnica’s work with a Substack subscription or on Stripe. While scouring the world for cleantech headlines this morning, I came across an op-ed in the New York Times by David Wallace-Wells, who has written extensively on climate change and energy politics. He thinks the current war in Iran is a sign of something bigger … Read more

The fossil fuel companies are finally acknowledging the climate crisis – not their part in it

The fossil fuel companies are finally acknowledging the climate crisis - not their part in it

As the US government continues to call climate change a lie and attack science, in courts from The Hague to Honolulu, fossil fuel companies are taking a different tack. Shell, Chevron, RWE and TotalEnergies all accept that climate change is real, human-caused and serious. The era of denying the business climate, at least in legal … Read more