Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

The Texas energy crisis in February 2021 reminded us of the precariousness of energy systems and their high costs of failure. This event nearly devastated the state’s power grid due to a frequency drop that put Texas four minutes and 37 seconds away from a months-long blackout.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Everyone has heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the damage caused to marine life by plastic pollution in the oceans. For a long time, the experts believed that cleaning up the gyres was impossible: it would take too long and be too costly as well as energy-intensive.

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Charged

AUGUST 2, 2023

The electric road ahead for heavy trucks is not exactly clear, and there are several roadblocks, some obvious and some far less so. Fleets don’t want to go electric at scale until they’ve done years-long pilots, but the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation will artificially constrict that timeframe. Soon they won’t have a choice.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

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. Other wood pellet companies have flocked to the region, including Drax , a major energy utility in the UK that now manufactures wood pellets in the U.S.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

While these measures have not yet been finalized, or even formally proposed, they will likely include the following options, among others: installation of zero-emission truck charging/fueling stations; installation of rooftop solar; and purchase and use of zero-emission yard trucks.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

While these measures have not yet been finalized, or even formally proposed, they will likely include the following options, among others: installation of zero-emission truck charging/fueling stations; installation of rooftop solar; and purchase and use of zero-emission yard trucks.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

While officials have argued that oil prices will eventually rise, reviving inactive wells, environmental advocates and energy analysts say that the industry is in a downward spiral that will cause the number of abandoned wells to balloon. A drill rig in the setting sun. The mighty Chesapeake Energy, a publicly traded company with $8.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

While officials have argued that oil prices will eventually rise, reviving inactive wells, environmental advocates and energy analysts say that the industry is in a downward spiral that will cause the number of abandoned wells to balloon. A drill rig in the setting sun. The mighty Chesapeake Energy, a publicly traded company with $8.5

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2).

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AutoGrid

MARCH 15, 2023

What is a Virtual Power Plant (VPP)? By Peter Asmus, Director of Strategic Marketing Buzzwords are popping up in the new energy landscape, and chief among them is the term “virtual power plant” or VPP. Back in 2012, most VPPs did not include energy storage whereas today, storage is often viewed as a fundamental building block.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

The eyes under his bald head have wrinkles nestled into their corners, hinting at decades of squinting in the sun. That’s good news for Garrett, who hasn’t plowed or otherwise tilled his fields since 2012. Done wrong, it would allow corporations, such as Delta Air Lines, Shell, and Google, to pollute consequence-free. “In

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 5, 2021

February 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Climate Software Gold Rush | Lone Star State Struggles | Jobs and the Energy Transition Credit: Poole Group This month, we’re covering the rush of investing into startups that quantify, manage, and verify carbon emissions reductions, Texas’ grid troubles, new research on transitioning fossil fuel workers, and more!

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The reserve is home to a vast array of rare and critically endangered animal species, including pangolins, sun bears, and - perhaps most famously - the Sumatran Tiger, of which there are less than 400 left in the wild. Where managed plantations meet the rainforest edge - Credit: Michael Holder Young, fresh-faced and 'green'?

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. Both Hawaiʻi and Guam have committed to using 100 percent renewable energy by 2045.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

Then the scientists: like the analysts you see at sporting events monitoring players' heartbeats and movement - warning in the 2018 UN IPCC climate science report the game for the planet is winnable - but slipping out of reach. It's slow, because the opposition is exceptionally well-funded, connected, with deep roots to power.

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