| March 31, 2016 | | | | | Jim Kharouf
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| | | | Lead Stories | | | | In today's edition, learn about how to launch a campaign - to fight climate change. The answer? Use the same-sex marriage playbook. Also, a turning point: 20 state Attorneys General have launched an unprecedented, multi-state effort to investigate and prosecute the Âhigh-funded and morally vacant forces that have stymied attempts to combat global warmingÂstarting with holding ExxonMobil and other industry giants accountable for fraud and suppression of key climate science. Finally, in the Carbon section, another campaign: Trump agrees with Cruz! On what? Both are against a carbon tax. | | | | | | | | “ | | ÂThe reason there is all this focus is that this is arguably the most important environmental regulation ever.  |
| ” | | Richard L. Revesz, the director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law, in the New York Times' story Climate PolicyÂs Advocates Take Page From Same-Sex Marriage Playbook |
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Climate PolicyÂs Advocates Take Page From Same-Sex Marriage Playbook
By Coral Davenport - The New York Times
Two months ahead of a federal court hearing on President ObamaÂs signature climate change rule, a coordinated public relations offensive has begun  modeled after the same-sex marriage campaign  to influence the outcome of the case.
http://nyti.ms/21TPQOy 20 Attorneys General Launch Climate Fraud Investigation of Exxon
By Lauren McCauley Common Dreams
In a move many are hailing as a Âturning point in the climate fight, 20 state Attorneys General on Tuesday launched an unprecedented, multi-state effort to investigate and prosecute the Âhigh-funded and morally vacant forces that have stymied attempts to combat global warmingÂstarting with holding ExxonMobil and other industry giants accountable for fraud and suppression of key climate science.
http://bit.ly/1ZL94qf
Green Climate Fund vows to up its game
By Sanjay Kumar - Nature
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has had an inauspicious start to life  but 2016 could be the year it springs into action.
http://bit.ly/1UUMo7g
This Program Will Make Cutting Carbon Emissions Lucrative For Farmers
By Natasha Geiling - Think Progress
When Mark Isbell, a third-generation rice farmer in central Arkansas, tallies up his profits for this year, heÂll count a few extra dollars from a unique source: the greenhouse gases that his 3,200-acre farm didnÂt emit.
http://bit.ly/25x6OHc British health systems 'unprepared for devastating effects of climate change'
The Guardian
British health systems are unprepared for the Âdevastating effects of climate change, leading health bodies have warned.
http://bit.ly/1RJqct6
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| Carbon | | The enormous carbon footprint of food that we never even eat
By Chelsea Harvey - The Washington Post
Discussions about how to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions frequently center on clean energy, more efficient transportation and sustainable agriculture.
http://wapo.st/1RJPUe4 Renewables are incapable of replacing hydrocarbons at scale
By Kathleen Hartnett White - The Hill
Conspicuously missing from public chatter about the climate issue is recognition of the staggering costs and likely insurmountable engineering challenges of these grand plans to decarbonize human society within several decades.
http://bit.ly/1PFSIYe Trump Finds Common Ground With Cruz in Opposition to Carbon Tax
By Jennifer A Dlouhy - Bloomberg
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz oppose a carbon tax, putting them in league with the Republican National Committee on the issue but at odds with some oil companies and economists who view a levy on those heat-trapping emissions as an effective way to combat climate change.
http://bloom.bg/1RyQFrh
Desert mangroves: stars of carbon sequestration
By Jason Thomson - The Christian Science Monitor
Mangroves, Âbotanical amphibians that occupy a world on the cusp of land and sea, have long been considered a neglected, under-appreciated form of forest, providing untold services for nature and mankind alike.
http://bit.ly/1WYzVNQ
| | | | Natural Gas/Coal | | $1tn could be wasted on 'unneeded' new coal plants, report warns
By Damian Carrington - The Guardian
Almost $1tn of investment in new coal-fired power stations could be wasted if growing concerns about climate change and air pollution leave the plants unused, according to a new report.
http://bit.ly/1MC7N2i
China has the most coal plants in the worldÂand half the time theyÂre doing absolutely nothing
By Cassie Werber - Quartz
ThereÂs many a paradox in the world of coal. ItÂs the most polluting fossil fuel, and most governments agree that it doesnÂt present a long-term solution to the need for energy to power an ever-more-developed and populous world.
http://bit.ly/1MC7Z1K
EPA Aims to Cut Methane Leaks From Natural Gas Companies
By Michael Biesecker - Associated Press
The Obama administration on Wednesday announced a new partnership with 41 energy companies that have agreed to voluntarily reduce methane emissions from natural gas operations to help combat climate change.
http://abcn.ws/1V6ATs7 | | | | Power | | EDF board member calls for Hinkley Point C project to be postponed
By Terry Macalister and Julia Kollewe - The Guardian
An EDF board member has called for the £18bn Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be postponed, in the latest sign of discord at the top of the French energy company over the troubled project.
http://bit.ly/25wJzgp
ChinaÂs State Grid Envisions Global Wind-and-Sun Power Network
By Biran Spegele - The Wall Street Journal
ChinaÂs State Grid Corp. already dominates its home market, operating most of the electricity grid that powers the worldÂs second-largest economy.
http://on.wsj.com/1omNiLu
Australia to feed Ukraine nuclear power plants
By Cecilia Jamasmie - Mining
Australia and Ukraine are set to sign a cooperation agreement in nuclear energy, which will see Canberra supplying the necessary uranium to feed the European countryÂs nuclear power plants.
http://bit.ly/1omNsmh
WorldÂs first triple geo-PV-solar thermal power plant unveiled in Nevada
By Adilya Zaripova - PV
Stillwater power plant, the first triple hybrid facility in the world, combining geothermal, photovoltaic and solar thermal power generation, was inaugurated in Nevada.
http://bit.ly/21UaEFB | | | | CleanTech | | 2016's Top Ten Tech Cars: Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell
By Lawrence Ulrich - Spectrum
Hydrogen cars have been such a tease. For decades, carmakers have held out the hope of clean energy, free of fossil fuels and tailpipe emissions, without telling us where the hydrogen will come from and what it will cost.
http://bit.ly/1ZLEe0H Fuel Cells 2016: ÂWithin Striking Distance of Profitability
By Eric Wesoff - GTM
In keeping with GTM tradition, here's a just-updated list of the top three profitable publicly held fuel-cell firms.
http://bit.ly/1VU2XQm | | | | Water | | Water problems in AsiaÂs future?
By Peter Dizikes - MIT News
Economic and population growth on top of climate change could lead to serious water shortages across a broad swath of Asia by the year 2050, a newly published study by MIT scientists has found.
http://bit.ly/1PGiqfe
Stanford researchers show fracking's impact to drinking water sources
By Rob Jordan - Stanford News
Only one industry is allowed to inject toxic chemicals into underground sources of drinking water  hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking."
http://stanford.io/1M1bVZR
How New York Gets Its Water
By Emily S. Rueb - The New York Times
Revelations about tainted water have sparked worry across the country.
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