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California Targets Nearly $400M to Fill Gaps in EV Charging Infrastructure

GreenTechMedia

But it’s also meant to drive economic development and reduce pollution in low-income and disadvantaged communities, with half of its funds designated for projects in those areas. Hydrogen fueling has received about $156 million in CEC funding but has seen only 44 fueling stations deployed to date.

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Review of Climate Policy Options

Low Carbon Prosperity

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The same elasticity effect applies to pollution. Economists argue that Pigouvian taxes , like a carbon tax, are the most economically efficient means of reducing pollution.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Logan Green has cited growing up with Southern California traffic and carpooling as a student in Zimbabwe for inspiring the launch of Zimride in 2007. million acres the 4.4

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Duke vs. Duke: Electric and gas utilities at odds over efficiency rebates in N.C.

Renewable Energy World

For nearly four years, Piedmont Natural Gas — one of Duke’s wholly owned subsidiaries — and the state’s other major gas distribution company have stymied incentives for new high-efficiency homes, claiming with scant evidence that the rebate scheme will lose them customers. Builders in the territory, covering 1.4

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LNG Projects Make Claims of ‘Net-Zero’ to Ease Way for Expansion

DeSmogBlog

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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Princeton Maps Reveal US Plans for Massive CO2 Pipeline Buildout

DeSmogBlog

They are aimed at the cheapest solution, the least-cost, shortest distance between two points the pollution source and the dump. For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. The CO2 pipeline buildout is shaping up to be the biggest environmental justice insult ever.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. million acres the 4.4 million acres it protects in the Amazon.