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Minnesota nickel mine faces environmental justice challenges

Charged

Let’s get this straight right away: this is not one of those “EVs’ Dirty Little Secret” articles. On the other hand, it’s critical that every step of the EV supply chain be as clean as it’s practical to make it—in both environmental and human terms. Talon Metals insists that it will follow the strictest environmental best practices.

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Inside the drive to close the UK's EV battery recycling loop

Business Green

The clean tech revolution will see battery technologies play a critical role in our cars, our trucks, our power grid, our buildings, and even our ferries. We will test them, collect all the energy out of the battery and sent it back to the grid," Brundle explains. "If

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Pipeline Safety Advocates Say Government ‘Has Failed’ the Public in the Wake of a Coastal Louisiana Oil Spill

DeSmogBlog

Just a week earlier, Louisiana state regulators approved a preliminary air permit for a proposed renewable diesel unit at a refinery run by the pipeline firm’s parent company, PBF Energy. Detail of sheen on the surface of one of the ponds impacted after a pipeline owned by PBF Energy ruptured, shown on January 22.

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Green steel: Three leading innovations worldwide

Business Green

A Bill Gates-backed startup, Boston Metal, working to create a CO2-free steel process, raised $50m in funding in January. While this is not a final solution to the steel industry's carbon emission woes, Kobe is positioning this as a transitional technology to help reduce emissions while it develops more drastic changes.

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2023: A Strange, Tumultuous Year in Sustainability

Andrew Winston

As the clean economy grows, or human rights and equality get more attention, those who do not want these changes also work to slow progress. One side of the tug-of-war generally has an advantage — and it leans toward more sustainability and more clean tech — but none of these trends were unobstructed. I see duality.

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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam

Mr. Sustainability

This article explores what is needed to build such a green hydrogen refinery. It would require roughly 2GW of energy to replace this fully with green hydrogen, which is half the proposed IJmuiden Ver windfarm. This might all sound very exciting for those who make money out of it, the resulting environmental footprint is immense.

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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam

Mr. Sustainability

Transforming this fossil feedstock and the industry behind it requires an immense amount of green hydrogen, in the very least 2GW of renewable energy coming from a windfarm like IJmuiden Ver. This might be the quickest and cheapest way for you to become carbon neutral, without retrofitting your vessels at all. How do we fix this?