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In September 2021, Patagonia was recognized as the world’s most responsible company and in September 2022, the sustainability juggernaut took its support for the planet to a whole new level by donating the entire enterprise to environmental causes. As explained in the company's mission, "We’re in business to save our home planet"....

The U.S. climate bill, more formally known as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 was signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 16th.  The 755-page bill includes 100 climate, energy, and environmental programs that are designed to cut U.S. carbon emissions by 40 percent. The incentive-driven approach in the IRA...

Despite steady increases in global temperatures and years of ever more deadly heat waves, we are not doing anywhere near enough to combat climate change. The UN describes the decades of worsening heat as an "undeniable trend" of anthropogenic warming. Last summer an article in The Atlantic said the heat was "unignorable" and hundreds of...

While renewable energy is widely touted as the future of energy, nuclear power is increasingly being discussed as a necessary part of the mix.  To combat climate change we must replace greenhouse gas (GHG) intensive fossil fuels with emissions-free energy. Although both nuclear and renewables are clean sources of energy, renewables...

Nuclear power is garnering an increasing amount of attention as a climate-friendly energy alternative to greenhouse gas (GHG) intensive fossil fuels.  Emissions-free nuclear energy is both safe and clean and as such it is a logical alternative to fossil fuels. Nuclear also generates a million times more energy per atom than the combustion...