Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Laws and landfills. The state of California two years ago reclassified solar panels as " universal waste ," a category that is also home to batteries and lightbulbs. Most of Enel's installations in North America are nowhere near that point, anyway; the oldest was installed in 2012.

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Recycling Recycling North America Waste 80

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

President Biden signed historic climate legislation into law in August, but more action will be necessary to hit climate targets. As the TVA’s aging coal and gas fleet retires, they should be replaced with renewable energy and batteries, advocates say. March, 2012. It is considering building new power plants that will burn gas.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

47 in 2012. Stiglitz:2012) Also by this author: Food Security vs Legalizing Cannabis Much of the inequality that exists today is a result of government policy, both what the government does and what it doesn’t do (Stiglitz, 2012). More equal societies have.3 3 Gini coefficients or below and most unequal societies have.5

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Investment Government Policy Sustainability 40

Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Gen2 racer has enough range to last the whole 45-minute race, and the Gen3 car’s super-fast charging will make it possible to reduce the battery size. “As As you progress, the batteries get smaller, because you can charge it faster,” said O’Shea. Sometimes I use the comparison to Moore’s law,” said O’Shea.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

West Virginia Large and deadly storms, like Superstorm Sandy in 2012, have hastened efforts to bolster infrastructure in the Northeast in preparation for the more severe impacts of climate change. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans. Some go even further.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 139

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Less advertised around that time, the company unveiled details about its new modular vehicle platform and Ultium batteries , designed to lower EV prices and allow a 400-mile range fully charged. The company is an Ellen MacArthur Foundation partner, including in a collaboration with Veolia to close the loop on lithium-ion EV batteries.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

We didn’t have a way to check a box and say okay, ‘tank batteries have left the building.’”. Then, in November 2012, a deadly explosion rocked Black Elk’s West Delta 32 platform off Louisiana’s coast, an incident that would ultimately lead to Black Elk being convicted of eight felonies and a misdemeanor.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Methane Home Energy Monitoring 96

Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

The UK, birthplace of the industrial revolution, has signed it into law. This is a story of "technology disruption" its experts argue, with costs of solar, wind, and batteries plummeting. Less than six years later, the concept of net zero emissions is a reality. Marginal gains. Back to sport.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 48

Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Over the course of his three-decade career at Microsoft, the law school graduate has made a name for himself through a string of diplomatic successes as he helped settle disputes with some of the firm's biggest competitors and bring to a close long-running antitrust battles with US government and the European Commission.

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Fossil fuels Energy Energy Carbon-negative 36

Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

Solar panels, wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries have all followed this trajectory over the past two decades. Trump signed it into law. Given that spending, Wall Street fell out of love with its stock, which was the largest single component of the S&P 500 as recently as 2012.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Fossil fuels Technology 78

Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But then California’s legislature passed a law to subsidize small biomass plants in 2012. The notion of peppering California’s rural mountain towns with small wood-burning power plants might have sounded improbable when this local group started meeting.

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Carbon-neutral Logging Carbon Climate change 100

Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Barring any late Congressional dramas, President Joe Biden could sign the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law before the week is out, triggering a multi-billion dollar green investment bonanza that promises to drastically accelerate US emissions reduction efforts.

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Fossil fuels Methane Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral 36

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Less advertised around that time, the company unveiled details about its new modular vehicle platform and Ultium batteries , designed to lower EV prices and allow a 400-mile range fully charged. The company is an Ellen MacArthur Foundation partner, including in a collaboration with Veolia to close the loop on lithium-ion EV batteries.

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