John Upton has a great article on Grist.org around his take on the top 2013 environment stories. I thought I'd take the article and convert it into a presentation. He listed out 13 stories. Over the last few days, I converted each one into a few slides.
Here is the full presentation covering all 13 stories:
7. Regulations cracking down
on coal-burning power plants
Components
of the plan
Boosting renewables and
energy efficiency
Cutting fossil fuel subsidies
Preparing for climate change
that’s already inevitable
10. People are standing up to fossil
fuel interests
Delayed federal
approval of the Keystone
pipeline
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Fracking moratorium or
bans in 4 states
Fighting plans to build a
coal export terminal
Convincing organization to
dump fossil-fuel
investments
27. Politicians
of all stripes
favor
fracking*
**
*
Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, is the
process of drilling and injecting fluid into
the ground at a high pressure in order to
fracture shale rocks to release natural gas
inside.
** In the process, water is wasted, chemicals
used and the grounds are contaminated.
28. By the time
Obama leaves
office, the U.S.
will be the
world’s largest
producer of oil
and gas
combined
38. US refineries are processing
Canadian tar-sands oil and a dirty
side effect is piles of dusty black
residue called petroleum coke, or
petcoke
39. This filth blows into nearby area
polluting neighborhoods and
This filth blows
contaminating waterway.
into nearby
areas polluting
neighborhoods
and
contaminating
waterways
40. Koch Industries
has been
buying up some
petcoke and
exporting them
to countries
with weaker airquality laws for
use as powerplant fuel
51. Blamed climate change for
the intense wildfires
For Climate
Signed legislation promoting
solar power and cleaner cars
7
Under his watch, California’s
new carbon-trading program
got rolling
52. Borrowed from an
environment fund to pay for
other state programs
Against
7
Climate
Made it clear that frackers
are welcome to California
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