It would have been the biggest offshore wind farm in the world, but the German utility RWE just announced it’s abandoning its plan to build the 1.2 GW project off the coast of Britain. The FT reports: RWE insisted the decision on the Atlantic Array had nothing to do with UK policy and everything to do with […]

Saudi officials have not been holding back their feelings on the Iran deal. Here’s a selection of comments from Saudi officials and the media in the past few days:“We were lied to, things were hidden from us. The problem is not with the deal struck in Geneva, but how it was done,” Nawaf Obaid, a counsellor […]

America’s methane emissions may be 1.5 times larger than the EPA’s current estimate, according to a new study. Researchers from eight different institutions, including Harvard University, arrived at that conclusion using a top-down methodology.Rather than measuring emissions from representative samples of known sources of methane—like livestock and oil and gas drilling—the authors analyzed air samples […]

Yesterday, WRM discussed the US-Iranian nuclear deal on PBS NewsHour, along with host Gwen Ifill and Nicholas Burns of the State Department. View the video here.

Anti-MOOC fervor gathered steam this week with the publication of a deflating interview with Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun, but MIT, for one, remains unfazed. In a recent report on the future direction of the school, MIT devoted considerable space to edX, which it considers one of the central pieces of its growth strategy in the coming years. MIT […]

The green movement has long had a penchant for conflating science with policy—that is, justifying their policy ideas with words like “scientific consensus” and labeling opponents as “anti-science.” This appeal to scientific authority, mixed with a “sky is falling” alarmism, has helped them pushed through ill-conceived green policies that all to often end in disaster. […]

California’s bullet train boondoggle was sucker punched yesterday, as a Sacramento Superior Court judge blocked $68 billion in bond funding. The same case saw a separate ruling allowing the state to spend $3.4 billion in federal cash for the project, while a second case (same judge) rejected the rail authority’s request to issue $8 billion […]

Moody’s has issued a negative outlook for the higher-ed sector for the second year in a row, noting that many colleges are skating on thin ice as enrollment and tuition revenue decline and their customers become increasingly price-conscious. The WSJ reports: “Affordability remains a key issue as the weak economic environment continues to affect families’ ability to pay for higher education […]

[UPDATE: The US has just flown two B-52 bombers near the Senkaku islands, in defiance of the Chinese air defense zone. “We have continued to follow our normal procedures, which include not filing flight plans, not radioing ahead and not registering our frequencies,” said a Pentagon spokesman. There has been no response yet from Beijing.]The […]

As is often the case in Thailand, politics are complicated and press reports tend to be garbled. But that doesn’t mean this is not an important story to watch.