Fracking has changed the face of oil so much that Alaska is now only No. 4 in oil production and within a year or so will likely fall behind California and/or Colorado and out of the top 5. For people like Scott Santens, the guru of libertarian-type basic income programs, who like to tout Alaska's Permanent Fund as a good example of Basic Income, no, even setting aside climate change, this shows all the problems with the Permanent Fund.
Be skeptical about the "hydrogen economy" as part of the answer to climate change. Here's why.
New Mexico's serious effort to rein in methane emissions, though, SHOULD be nationalized and globalized.
As Texas and New Mexico continue to differ on whether groundwater reservoirs and riverine water should be counted as one bucket or not, and Texas argues with both it and old Mexico over water delivery issues, High Country News has info on the first-ever mapping of all US-Mexico joint aquifers. Currently, the two nations have no covenants or agreements on the regulation of jointly held groundwater, making this important for the future.
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