The Spanish Fork Wind Project is an interesting success story about how…
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Energy, Business, and Society
Reducing carbon emissions will be one of the largest challenges that humanity…
Integrating Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, the United Nations released the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a…
Top Sustainability Topics and Relevance
When reading news articles or perusing social media, often there are topics…
Addressing Global Climate Change
The global demand for reliable and affordable energy has led to an…
Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Storage Locations in the United States
Human’s need for affordable, reliable, and accessible energy. This has led to…
Global Energy System – DPSIR: Drivers, Pressures, State, Impacts, and Responses
Analytical frameworks for assessing complex systems can be useful in understanding relationships…
Western U.S. Drought Issues
The lack of rainfall for a long period of time can lead…
U.S. Policy Recommendations for Net Zero Emissions
This proposed U.S. energy policy report provides an overview of the pressures…
The Largest Emitters: China and the U.S.
The United States and China are the largest emitters of greenhouse gas…
Should the U.S. Have Signed the Kyoto Protocol?
Global warming and climate change are issues that span the entire planet…
Do Humans Cause Climate Change?
Global warming and climate change are terms that are often interchanged but…
Updating the Energy Grid
With an already outdated and aging electricity transmission grid, the United States…
Aging Transmission Grid
The United States has an aging and outdated electricity grid that over…
Nuclear Energy Overview
In the United States there are 94 operating commercial reactors that represented…
Land Footprint vs Other Energy Generation Considerations
Transitioning to an energy system that is carbon neutral will take a…
Fossil Fuels for Energy Independence?
Fossil Fuel Reserves The United States’ reliance on fossil fuels has enabled…
Is the U.S. Utilizing and “All-of-the-Above” Energy Policy?
While the United States has more untapped fossil fuels than any country…
Why is the U.S. Still So Dependent on Fossil Fuels?
There are several reasons why the United States is still dependent on…