Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Read Next A new alliance for ‘high quality’ carbon removal highlights tensions within the industry Emily Pontecorvo To be sure, the United States is investing in carbon removal. The bipartisan infrastructure law and Inflation Reduction Act included billions of dollars for technology such as regional direct air capture hubs.

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APRIL 27, 2020

Source: Emily Pontecorvo, WIRED, April 25, 2020 In early March, when Covid-19 cases began popping up across the U.S., the Philadelphia-based company Solar States was having a really good year, with at least six months’ worth of contracts already lined up.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Emily Pontecorvo. Monday’s report was the slowest to be approved in the IPCC’s 34-year-long history: For 16 days, scientists and government delegates combed through the 64-page summary for policymakers. The final sprint involved 40 hours of line-by-line negotiations. . degrees C is locked in.

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Grist

JANUARY 29, 2020

Emily Pontecorvo / Grist. Emily Pontecorvo / Grist. Yury Gogotsi in his office, pointing to a pencil illustrated with the molecular structure of a carbon nanotube. The pencil is 1 million times larger than a real nanotube in diameter. And batteries as we know them are just the beginning.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

Emily Pontecorvo. Plus, using plant waste for the process can be seen as a benefit, since it doesn’t create more competition for land. Biofuels are a controversial climate solution. Could they still help save the planet?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

By Emily Pontecorvo , Grist. This story originally appeared in Grist and is part of Covering Climate Now , a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act last year, a decades-long effort to get a major climate package through Congress is over.

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