Mike McGovern - Advocate for a Clean Energy Future

Here is what a lying sack of s**t says about clean energy. His one and only goal is to line his buddy's pockets with more money, regardless of the consequences.

Trump Admin Scraps 5 Offshore Wind Farms Citing ‘National Security Risks’ The US Interior Department announced Monday that it was immediately pausing leases for five offshore wind farms — including two in New York — “due to nation...

The Atlantic City wind farm is turning 20 and still saving money

Once opposed, A.C. wind farm has become a landmark 20 years later That wind farm, once opposed for fears of noise, aesthetics, and worries over Shore birds, turns 20 on Friday.

Poland is one of the many countries committed to a clean energy future. Their aggressive adoption of solar panels and heat pumps gets their country closer to their goal of tripling their clean energy capacity.
Yes, clean energy is possible. The USA needs to take a leadership role.

Europe’s Cold Snap Puts Thousands of New Heat Pumps to the Poland, one of Europe’s most coal-dependent nations, is pivoting to heat pumps as it attempts to triple its renewables capacity by 2030.

Some folks are still working tirelessly to try and save our planet. Let's pull together and support the politicians and activists who continue to see the clean energy vision!

Wind, Solar Credits Face Shorter Phase-Out in GOP’s New Tax Bill Key tax incentives for US wind and solar projects would face a more aggressive phase-out in the Senate’s latest version of President Donald Trump’s spending package.

Some sad climate news thanks to changes in our federal government's posture towards clean energy.

Climeworks Is Cutting 22% of Staff as US Climate Backlash Hits Carbon Removal Climeworks AG is laying off 106 people, as startups that aim to reverse global warming face a reckoning with the US government slashing climate incentives and programs.

I am not going to sugarcoat this. Trump's actions are destroying all protections for our environment. Check out this well researched piece from the New York Times. I'd like to say there is a silver lining or a bright side or maybe just a different approach, but the sad fact is: What was already very bad, is now much much worse.

We are still keeping an eye out for any good news on the clean energy movement. Here's some, about solar energy global progress:

Global Solar Installations on Track for Another Record Year Solar capacity around the world will be installed at a record pace in 2024, as bargain panel prices help countries’ efforts to deploy cleaner energy.

As an EV driver myself for over 7 years, I know the fun adventures of finding a charging station! See the following story from Bloomberg.com:
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EV drivers get creative

By Alicia Clanton

Sitting behind the wheel of her gray Tesla Model Y, Brooklyn resident Stephanie Doba uses her phone to punch the make, model and license plate number of a Toyota Camry into New York City’s online form for reporting illegal parking. Prompted to describe the issue, she answers with voice-to-text: “Gas car parking at electric vehicle charging station.”

Doba has made at least 10 such reports since New York City set up curbside EV chargers near her Park Slope home three years ago. Some days she walks to the tree-lined street where the public plugs are installed just to check if they’re being ICEd — EV-speak for when curbside chargers are blocked by internal-combustion cars.

“People need to know that they’re hurting actual people,” Doba says. “It’s like if you parked your car at a gas pump and [walked] away.”

Doba’s frustration is familiar to many of the New York City area’s intrepid EV converts. The city has announced plans to install 40,000 Level 2 plugs and 6,000 fast chargers by 2030. But today there are around 2,200 public plugs citywide, 10% of them fast. Uneven distribution means even infrequent issues with damaged equipment or blocked spots can have an outsized impact. When the city reviewed 18 months of usage data across 100 chargers, it found that gas cars blocked them 20% of the time.

An internal-combustion Toyota Camry blocks a FLO EV charger near Stephanie Doba’s home in Park Slope. Photographer: Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg

New York City aims to reduce vehicle emissions as part of its 2050 net-zero goal, by which point the city also wants electric cars to account for 20% of new vehicle registrations. But getting there will require a robust and reliable charging network: While 80% of US EV drivers charge at home, about half of NYC’s drivers depend on street parking.

In 2021, the city’s Department of Transportation partnered with utility Consolidated Edison and EV charging company FLO on a pilot program to install 100 curbside Level 2 chargers across the five boroughs. Since then, hundreds more public chargers have been installed by private firms, including Tesla and EVgo. Still, it’s been slow going: Grid limitations, community input requirements and competing municipal uses of curbside space all influence how many chargers can be installed and where.

Read More: The US Now Has a Fast Charger for Every 15 Gas Stations

As more chargers come to more neighborhoods, finding an available plug in and around New York will get easier; the city says it’s also working with police to boost enforcement at public stations. In the meantime, though, Doba isn’t alone in finding creative workarounds.

Across the Hudson River in Jersey City, Sal Cameli bought his first EV in 2012. Today he has two Nissan Leafs, which he rarely drives, and one Model Y. But Cameli doesn’t have a garage or driveway to charge in. Instead, he hired an electrician to craft a 19-foot cable that plugs into a dryer hookup in his kitchen. The cable runs through a window and out to the street, where it’s fastened to a signpost to prevent tripping.

The charger plugs into a dryer hookup in Cameli’s kitchen. Photographer: Sarah Blesener/Sarah Blesener for Bloomberg

“In this neighborhood back then, there were no chargers at all,” Cameli says. “There was downtown Jersey City, but that’s 2.3 miles away. I’m not going to plug in there and then walk home.”

On nights when Cameli needs to use his charger, his biggest challenge is securing parking close enough for the cable to reach. That’s where the Nissans come in: One Leaf holds a spot by the signpost during the day, while Cameli is out and about in the Tesla. The other Leaf is parked behind the first one. When Cameli gets home, he moves the placeholder car, then parks the Tesla in its spot and parks the second Leaf at an angle to protect the protruding charger plug from a sideswipe.

Cameli says a full charge costs him $13.65 — $15 in summer — compared with $18 at the charging station that was installed near his apartment a few years ago. He charges the Tesla every four days and drives it about 12,500 miles (2,010 kilometers) per year; the Leafs get charged every six weeks. Cameli pegs his annual charging costs at just under $500.

Cameli fastens the EV charger from his home window to a signpost. Photographer: Sarah Blesener/Bloomberg

As more urban drivers adopt EVs, densely populated areas like New York will have to implement their own clever solutions. Many electric enthusiasts, including Doba and Cameli, dream of a future with more creative infrastructure, like lamp-post that double as chargers or curbsides with wireless charging built into the pavement.

“Imagine all of Broadway — down from the tip of Manhattan all the way up to the park — that every single parking spot has wireless charging,” Cameli says. “Wouldn’t that be amazing?”

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Despite lots of negative press pushed by naysayers and the fossil fuel industry propaganda machine, clean energy continues to make advances . Here's what's happening in CA this week:
California—the fifth-largest economy in the world—has experienced a record-breaking string of days in which the combined generation of wind, geothermal, hydroelectric and solar electricity has exceeded demand on the main electricity grid.
Think about that.

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Why the Plastic Problem Needs a Legally Binding Global Treaty Even some of the biggest corporate consumers of plastic are calling for an international framework to tackle the growing environmental menace.

Some scientific info about the plastics polution-climate change relationship. The problems are intertwined. Microplastics are everywhere too, in our water, food, oceans, bodies. We must do something at the federal and global treaty level. Just trying to save the world over here!

Global warming and plastic pollution entwined in vicious circle, researchers say Typically viewed as unrelated problems, global warming and plastic pollution are instead inextricably trapped in a "vicious circle" where one feeds the other, researchers in Sweden report in Nature Communications. The mutually-reinforcing relationship escalates global warming, the degradation of mat...

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Many folks ask if Lithium-Ion batteries are "green"? The answer is YES because they are 95% recyclable. Yes they use rare earth minerals, but those same minerals can be re-used infinitely. Read here about Toyota's partnership for recycling EV batteries.

Toyota Motor ($TM) Partners with Cirba Solutions to Boost Nationwide Battery Recycling Efforts Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM), a leading electric vehicle producer, has joined forces with Cirba Solutions to boost battery recycling efforts, particularly focusin...