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Petroleum Engineer Turned Climatetech Founder’s Take On the Energy Transition: ‘All I See is Opportunity’

Greentown Labs

She persevered through college while running a chocolate business to support her family, and went on to spend 25 years in the energy industry, working her way from a drilling engineer at bp to various positions at Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, and Halliburton before becoming president and CEO of Evaluation & Optimization at GE.

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How Geothermal Energy Might Be the Answer to Energy Eating Heatwaves

GreenTech Gazette

But some experts claim that unprecedented “extended heatwaves” are causing significant strain on the nation’s aging energy grid. However, one clean alternative to dirty fuels is becoming popular among green-minded people and traditional fuel proponents alike: geothermal energy. National Demand Expected to Grow.

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The Rules for Early-Stage Cleantech Venture Capital Investment in 2021

GreenTechMedia

Think thin-film solar and biofuels, the two “big bad bets” that Shayle Kann, partner at Energy Impact Partners, identified in a 2020 Interchange conversation. billion according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance to $16 billion, according to PwC.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

“The EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. Children return home from school in Channelview, Texas. Tim Doty is the scientist who led the TCEQ mobile monitoring team that recorded Channelview’s high benzene levels back in 2005 and 2006.

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Ohio geologists study potential for geothermal in abandoned coal mines

Renewable Energy World

The research at Ohio University could help transform old fossil fuel sites into clean energy assets, though much work remains to be done. Geologists at Ohio University are exploring the potential to turn abandoned coal mines into sources of carbon-free heating and cooling. They’re just taking up space.”.

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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

Last year, the company announced two major initiatives: Carbon renewal technology , or CRT, which breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. We knew that the circular economy and being a lot more efficient with carbon was a good idea.".

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Greencoat snaps up 36MW Andershaw wind farm from Statkraft for £120m

Business Green

Statkraft has sold the 36MW Andershaw wind farm in South Lanarkshire to wind power specialist Greencoat UK Wind plc for £120m, with the European renewables major planning to use all of the proceeds from the sale to fund further renewables projects, it announced today.