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Will New York City’s largest buildings meet emissions reduction limits by 2024?

Renewable Energy World

Contributed by Saverio Grosso, Edison Energy. Under the Act, passed in 2019, most buildings over 25,000 square feet—roughly 50,000 residential and commercial properties across the city—must meet new energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions by 2024, and stricter limits in 2030. Last month, the U.S.

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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A Vibrant Cleantech Startup Ecosystem Takes Root in India

GreenTechMedia

Several floors below the firm’s balcony, power lines crisscross over piles of garbage, a fleet of rickshaws and cow patties on a rooftop, being dried for cooking fuel. ” Rapid growth in India’s renewable energy sector is driving demand for new technologies to modernize the country’s power sector.

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Montana’s renewable energy city coalition grows

Renewable Energy World

For this episode of our Voices of 100% series of the Local Energy Rules Podcast , host John Farrell talks with Helena Sustainability Coordinator Patrick Judge and Citizens Conservation Commission Member Mark Juedeman. Judge and Juedeman supported Helena as the city committed to 100% renewable energy. ” Patrick Judge.

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Greentown Labs Announces the Healthy Buildings Challenge with Saint-Gobain and MassCEC

Greentown Labs

That’s why today, Greentown Labs and Saint-Gobain, with support from MassCEC, have launched the Greentown Launch Healthy Buildings Challenge , seeking applications from startups with buildings-related technologies that optimize for the health of people and the climate, together. Somerville, Mass., June 15 at 1:00 p.m.

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EPRI, Shell, the City of Houston, Greentown Labs, and NYU Urban Future Lab Announce Startup Participants for the Low-Carbon Hydrogen Accelerator

Greentown Labs

Clean Power (Greater Manchester, United Kingdom) is developing a novel, low-cost, highly durable hydrogen polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell delivering zero-emission electricity. SPEC Sensors (Newark, CA) is creating a robust and reliable meshed sensor network for hydrogen leak detection and line-monitoring systems.