In 2024, there were 2,531,206 electric vehicles in the United States, including battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). According to Edmunds.com, the percentage of cars that were hybrid, BEV, or PHEV, was 9.3% in 2023, out of 286 million cars on US roads that year. The most popular brand of electric...
For the 2024 Climate Leader, I selected Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm. She has led the United States Department of Energy since 2021 and is an ambitious and determined force in the name of combating climate change. She graduated from the University of California and got her J.D. from Harvard. Secretary Granholm has been an...
An innovative technology recently launched in the United States is rapidly expanding its reach, and JustAir, the startup behind it, is quickly collecting awards and notoriety for its services. JustAir was founded by Darren Riley, a Detroit resident who started to explore air quality levels when he was diagnosed with adult-onset asthma. He began to...
An Email Inquiry to a Republican Climate Advocate (Debbie Dooley, Tea Party Patriots) Dear Debbie Dooley: 11/17/2024 debbie@mainstreetpatriots.usI acknowledge that you have worked with the Republican party and respect that you are also a vocal and strong advocate for solar energy in the United States, particularly in the conservative movement. I also recognize...
A total of 818,814,000 acres in the United States is covered by forest. That’s 36.21% of the total land mass. United States forests are a mix of many different types as the United States spans a large land area and is composed of Arctic to tropical zones. The United States mostly has deciduous and coniferous...
The NDC Partnership is a network of over 120 countries, facilitated by UNFCCC, that is dedicated to helping each other strengthen their Paris Agreement Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Pledges. The Partnership has just released Version 3.0 of the NDC Navigator, an interactive tool that supports the development of updated country NDCs to be submitted in...
Environment America’s October 2023 report shows that renewable energy is rising in the United States. Since 2013, the amount of solar energy in the United States has grown nearly twelvefold, while wind energy has increased 2.6fold. The United States’ reliance on renewable energy has grown from 5% to 17% in the past ten years. Despite...
The United States is a large country spanning thousands of miles across the North American continent, including the state of Alaska and the island chain of Hawaii. Many problems exist in the United States regarding drastic weather events, including wildfires, flooding, extreme heat, and drought. Although some of these severe weather events used to be...
The Sunrise Movement operates mostly remotely and is a youth-led organization focusing on reducing carbon emissions. It was founded in 2017. In 2018, it was popularized by a sit-in with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Nancy Pelosi’s office to support a Green New Deal. After this event, hundreds of hubs were established across the country. In 2019,...
Only thirteen states have adopted an emissions trading system in the United States. Eleven states in the northeast (Connecticut, Maine, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont) are part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), which is a cap-and-trade program. California also has a cap-and-trade program, while...
