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This is an important discussion. We must understand, get mad and insist on change.

Wells Fargo is about a billion dollars poorer… Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Nomi Prins host of The Young Turks, break it down.  Here is a direct video link.

Good grief, at last.  After spending fortunes cooling their buildings with old energy systems, Las Vegas casinos are finally seeing dollar signs in the free desert sun.  Starting with a solar array atop Mandalay Bay in 2014, expanded to 20 roof acres in 2016, MGM is now adding more arrays and advancing battery technology.  See:  MGM Resorts will use solar array to power Las Vegas casinos:

MGM Resorts International plans to power its sizable share of the Strip with a dedicated solar array capable of supplying up to 90 percent of daytime demand at the company’s 13 Las Vegas casinos.

MGM Resorts is partnering with Chicago-based renewable developer Invenergy on a new 100-megawatt photovoltaic array set to go online in 2020, about 25 miles northeast of Las Vegas.

…Once the Invenergy project goes on line, Ortega said, 30 percent of MGM Resort’s power in Southern Nevada will come from clean, renewable sources. “That means no carbon emissions,” she said.

The company hopes to increase that amount to 50 percent in the coming years with the help of advancing battery technology that will enable the storage of solar power for nighttime use.

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Millions of deaths each year from air pollution are driving city governments to zero-emission public transportation.  With the largest population and worst air pollution in the world, China is now leading the way in adding an estimated 9,500 zero-emissions buses every 5 weeks.  Since conventional buses consume 30 times more fuel than average sized cars, the impact on energy use is much greater than electric passenger sedans.  The drop in oil demand is compunding.  See: Electric buses are hurting the oil industry

For every 1,000 battery-powered buses on the road, about 500 barrels a day of diesel fuel will be displaced from the market, according to BNEF calculations. This year, the volume of fuel not needed may rise 37 percent to 279,000 barrels a day because of electric transport including cars and light trucks, about as much oil as Greece consumes, according to BNEF. Buses account for about 233,000 barrels of that total.

Other cities are taking notice. Paris, London, Mexico City and Los Angeles are among 13 others that have committed to only buying zero emissions transport by 2025.  It’s about time!

Here is a direct video link.