Earth Day is right around the corner — Monday, April 22 — along with earnings for major recycling service companies like Waste Management — A ancient giant snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton, researchers reported Thursday. Fossils found near a coal mine revealed a snake that stretched an estimated 36 feet to 50 feet . It's comparable to the largest known snake at about 42 feet that once lived in what is now Colombia.
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will announce on May 13 its plan to speed up the development of long-distance transmission lines to meet rising power demand and bring a backlog of planned clean energy projects to the grid. The long-awaited plan is part of reforms to upgrade the country's aging electric transmission system to keep up with power demand and a shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
It is industry, not government, that is getting in the way of a ‘just transition’ for oil and gas workers While governments are often blamed for a perceived ‘unjust transition,’ it is actually the industry itself which poses the biggest threat to the future of oil and gas workers.