Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 18, 2021

If the high price tag is all that stands between you and your dream Tesla, you might be able to afford one in a few years thanks to cobalt-free batteries.

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Batteries 254

Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

PaperTale is an app that scans smart tags on clothing to reveal the items' materials and how ethically they were made.

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Ethics Sustainability 284

Financial Times: Energy

JANUARY 30, 2024

French government in push to ease financing pressure on state-owned EDF from rising price tag

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Government 111

Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Energy supplier touts new offer promising heat pumps at cheaper price tag and running costs than conventional gas boilers

Energy 101

Energy Energy 101

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It is against this background that Isle set up its Urban Resilience Technology Approval Group (UR TAG) in 2019. Urban Resilience TAG meetings are an opportunity to pool project experiences, share best practice and collaborate. Technology pilots. Best practice.

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Resilience Greywater Climate change Technology 130

Business Green

APRIL 20, 2023

Online car marketplace calls for stronger tax incentives from government to support fairer transition to electric cars in the UK

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Opposition climate and energy spokesperson had pointed to SMRs as a solution to Australia’s energy needs, but experts raise questions over price tag Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The only company to have a small modular nuclear power plant approved in the US – cited by the Australian opposition as evidence (..)

Nuclear Power 111

Nuclear Power Carbon Energy Energy 111

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

Extracting raw materials has an impact on climate, as do the manufacturing processes that we use to make products.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 130

Green Living Guy

MARCH 28, 2022

That’s why hair dryers have huge tags on them warning consumers about electric shock and why some people won’t shower during a thunderstorm. Because of the minerals and natural chemicals dissolved in water, it’s an excellent conductor for electricity. However, water is also used to create energy.

Hydropower 145

Hydropower Energy Energy Electricity 145

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Tags: New Jersey Master Energy Plan economic denialism Read time: 10 mins Fossil fuel industry supporters and climate deniers are pushing a new climate falsehood when it comes to renewable energy: that natural gas offers a more affordable future. And they’re focusing their misinformation campaign on New Jersey.

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Natural gas Fossil fuels Energy Energy 140

Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2020

First Tesla EVs finished in Shanghai, Austria's Green Party enters government, Germany cuts rail fares for climate, and all the other green business news from around the world this week.

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Government 36

U.S. Green Technology

MARCH 5, 2021

Back in 2017, there are around 350,000 Instagram posts tagged as “zero-waste.” ” Add to that the zero-waste blogs and websites that are sprouting left and right. Consumers these days also have an increasing option of zero-waste products, from beauty and hygiene to household items.

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Sustainability Waste Waste Technology 144

Global Renewable News

JULY 19, 2022

By Pilar Manuel, CNN Philippines The.

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Geothermal power 40

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2021

Tags: Green hydrogen blue hydrogen hydrogen council hydrogen fuel cells Read time: 15 mins It seems like nearly every day another hopeful article touts the potential of using hydrogen as a fuel to tackle climate change. What’s known as “green hydrogen” — which relies on renewable power for production — is getting the bulk of that attention.

Natural gas 129

Natural gas Hydrogen Climate change 129

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Tags: fracking finance LNG Exports methane shale oil associated gas Read time: 16 mins After over a decade of the much-hyped U.S. fracking miracle, the U.S. oil and gas industry is having to deal with years of losses and falling asset values which has dealt the industry a serious financial blow.

Methane 142

Methane 142

Charged

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Vourity’s technology “enables rapid, secure payment for EV charging, using a wide variety of payment options including credit cards, mobile pay and RFID tags.” ABB e-mobility has acquired Swedish fintech startup Vourity , which provides technology designed to enable seamless payment options for EV charging.

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Startups Technology 116

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Tags: Louisiana cancer alley nurdles Formosa plastic production Read time: 6 mins This is a guest post by environmental communication professor and Louisiana native Ned Randolph. Living in Louisiana, reconciling the environmental harm caused by the state’s often celebrated oil and petrochemical sectors amounts to cognitive gaslighting. .

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Pollution Plastics 126

Energy Central

APRIL 19, 2023

Watch this video to see just how much the price tag is estimated to be. The cost of achieving our climate goals is staggering - and still increasing.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Tags: orphan wells abandoned oil wells Carbon orphaned well Read time: 7 mins The American public is facing a potential bill of $280 billion for the cleanup of 2.6 million unplugged oil and gas wells, according to Billion Dollar Orphans, a new report from London-based think tank Carbon Tracker. million undocumented orphan oil and gas wells.

Carbon 141

Carbon 141

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

Tags: environmental racism racism environmental justice Misinformation fossil fuel companies The report identifies 10 tactics that polluters, industry lobbyists, and politicians often deploy to deflect accountability for the impacts of fossil fuel production and pollution on the environment and human health.

Fossil fuels 143

Fossil fuels Pollution Health 143

DeSmogBlog

MAY 20, 2020

Tags: ExxonMobil Beyond Pesticides false advertising bp climate lawsuits naomi oreskes geoffrey supran The latest suit , filed May 15 in the D.C. Superior Court, claims the oil major is misleading consumers with “false and deceptive” advertising about its investments in “clean” fuels and technology.

Climate change 143

Climate change Investment Technology 143

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2020

Tags: Refining COVID-19 Gasoline Read time: 6 mins A growing number of refineries around the world are either curtailing operations or shutting down entirely as the oil market collapses. .

Demand 117

Demand 117

Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Prince William met with a host of leading clean tech innovators at Sustainable Ventures' workspace in central London yesterday - BusinessGreen tagged along for the ride

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Innovation Sustainability 44

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Tags: texas Rick Perry natural gas pipelines extreme weather Read time: 16 mins As temperatures across Texas plunged in mid-February, memes showing frozen wind turbines — some including misleading photos from Europe in 2015 — spread rapidly on social media.

Natural gas 99

Natural gas Demand Europe 99

Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 19, 2020

“If governments take advantage of the ever-falling price tag of renewables to put clean energy at the heart of COVID-19 economic recovery, they can take a big step towards a healthy natural world, which is the best insurance policy against global pandemics.”.

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Energy Energy Policy Government 116

DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2020

Tags: plastic production environmental justice House Oversight Committee cancer alley COVID-19 Read time: 6 mins During a congressional hearing Tuesday, a plastics industry executive echoed a common refrain from the industry: “Plastic saves lives.”.

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Plastics 123

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Tags: Royal Dutch Shell shell big oil end fossil fuels Read time: 4 mins Shell’s new net zero strategy is “grotesque” and includes an “impossible” reliance on tree-planting, campaigners have claimed. The oil major today revealed an “accelerated” strategy to reduce oil production and decarbonise its products by 2050.

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Fossil fuels 105

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Tags: France climate lawsuit Paris Agreement Greenpeace France climate action Read time: 5 mins A French court this week issued what climate campaigners are calling a “historic decision” in the fight to hold national governments accountable for insufficient action to address the climate crisis.

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Government 105

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Tags: Refining refinery utilization rates COVID-19 shell Marathon Petroleum Phillips 66 Read time: 9 mins Major players in the U.S. petroleum refining industry — which is experiencing a historic downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic — are attempting to sell refineries, with little luck.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 8, 2020

Tags: Bakken fracking finance Hess Corporation unconventional oil fracking Now, after all of that, the Bakken oil field appears moving toward terminal decline, with the public poised to cover the bill to clean up the mess caused by its ill-fated boom. .

Transportation 143

Transportation 143

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2021

Tags: shale fracking Read time: 10 mins Energy companies are increasingly having to face the unprofitable reality of fracking, and some executives are now starting to admit that publicly. But the question is whether the industry will listen — or continue to gamble with shale gas and oil.

Energy 98

Energy Energy 98

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Tags: Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Hurricane Laura oil spills National Response Center Scientists say warmer ocean waters due to human-caused climate change is making hurricanes like Laura stronger and causing them to intensify more rapidly ; Hurricane Laura spun up to a Category 4 storm in just 24 hours.

Climate change 145

Climate change 145

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2020

Tags: QAnon conspiracy theories climate science denial Heartland Institute Naomi Seibt Read time: 10 mins Back in December 2019, two conspiratorial worldviews collided as, for the first time, QA non’s Q suggested his followers should question anew a topic that, by now, has been considered, and reconsidered, for decades: climate change. “

Climate change 145

Climate change Government 145

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2021

Tags: crude oil export ban fracking However, looking back at the impact of lifting the 40-year-old ban, it appears the move has helped hasten the financial demise of the U.S. oil industry — while also increasing the industry’s huge contribution to climate change.

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Climate change 116

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Tags: Hurricane Louisiana Read time: 7 mins “ I will evacuate next time a hurricane is forecast to hit the area,” Traditional Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi- Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe told me the day after Hurricane Zeta hit Louisiana’s coast on October 28.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Tags: Hydrogen FTI Consulting Bridge Fuel Green hydrogen Read time: 7 mins The recent deluge of pro-hydrogen stories in the media that tout hydrogen as a climate solution and clean form of energy can now be linked in part to FTI Consulting — one of the most notorious oil and gas industry public relations firms.

Fossil fuels 106

Fossil fuels Hydrogen Europe Energy 106

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Tags: Hurricane Delta Read time: 7 mins Hurricane Delta made landfall in Creole. Louisiana, on October 9, 13 miles east of where Hurricane Laura struck 43 days before. It touched down in an. area packed with oil and gas wells, pipelines, and rigs.

Pollution 100

Pollution 100