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Enthusiasm For Electric Vehicles Appears Excessive

March 5, 2021

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin A mini electric vehicle of Banpu NEXT, a Thai ride sharing and rental service promoting clean energy ... [+] fuel vehicles, drives along a road in Bangkok. (Photo by Romeo GACAD / AFP) (Photo by ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images For nearly my entire career, there have ben ...

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New Roundtable Of Utilities And Environmental Groups Call For Deep Cuts In Carbon Pollution

March 5, 2021

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Written by Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund, and Gerry Anderson, executive chairman of DTE Energy and vice chairman of the Edison Electric Institute. Despite significant reductions in recent years, electricity generation accounts for roughly ... [+] one-quarter of the U.S. g...

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Climate Change Will Cost Companies $1.3 Trillion By 2026

March 5, 2021

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 23: Prime Minister Boris Johnson chairs a session of the UN Security ... [+] Council on climate and security at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on February 23, 2021 in London, England. The United Kingdom holds the security council's rotating presiden...

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A Bailout Of Texas’s Grid Operator Is Inevitable And It Will Cost Ratepayers Billions

March 4, 2021

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin It’s no longer a question of if the state will have to step in and rescue the Electric Reliability ... [+] Council of Texas, it’s a question of when it will happen and how much it will cost the state to winch its beleaguered electricity system out of the financial ditch. A utilities truck driv...

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Trump Proved The Mettle Of Environmental Regulations, Gina McCarthy Says

March 4, 2021

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy. (Photo by Joshua Roberts/Getty Images) Getty Images The Trump Administration’s repeated failure to overturn environmental regulations— even in front of Trump-appointed judges—proves their viability as a tool to fight climate change, White House National ...

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Batteries Or Hydrogen For Big (Clean) Trucks? Volvo Group Bets On Both

March 2, 2021

Recharging a battery-powered Volvo truck. Volvo Group The push to electrify transportation includes big developments for heavy-duty vehicles, with an expanding range of zero-emission trucks, buses and service vehicles. And while Tesla sets the standard for electric passenger cars, CEO Elon Musk’s view that batteries are also the best option for co...

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Toothless At First, China’s Carbon Market Could Be Fearsome

March 2, 2021

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin China's new emissions trading scheme, the world's largest, officially launched on February 1st. ... [+] Trading is set to begin before the end of June, if emissions reporting is completed on time. Getty Images At thousands of power plants throughout China, engineers and operators are engaged i...

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As ChargePoint Opens On NYSE, CEO Expects Broad EV Push By Biden Administration

March 1, 2021

ChargePoint CEO Pasquale Romano celebrates the start of trading in shares of the EV charging network service on the New York Stock Exchange on March 1, 2021. ChargePoint ChargePoint shares began trading on the New York Stock as a wave of electric vehicle startups and established automakers ready dozens of battery-powered cars and truck models that...

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Pure nonsense: Debunking the latest attack on renewable energy

March 1, 2021

Enlarge / Miraculously, the video at issue did not accuse wind turbines of causing cancer.Pictures Alliance / Getty Images Our editor-in-chief obviously hates me. That's the only conclusion I could reach after he asked me to watch an abysmal attack video targeting renewable energy—a video produced by a notorious source of right-wing misinformation....

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Why Bioenergy Matters In Our Future Sustainable Energy System

March 1, 2021

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Willow is grown as a biofuel crop in Lockerbie, Scotland. Getty Images A recent report published by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission on the use of woody biomass for EU energy production called for an honest discussion to "detoxify the debate surrounding the sustainability o...