Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

TEPCO subcontractors collect sea water samples near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2013 (image credit: IAEA Imagebank , CC BY-SA 2.0 But the Japanese government, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and independent scientists have declared the planned release to be reasonable and safe.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

.” The Ohio and Pennsylvania advocacy groups sent the Austin Master samples to Marco Kaltofen, a nuclear forensics scientist in Massachusetts who has extensive experience examining radioactive waste from the nuclear weapons, nuclear power generation, and oil and gas industries.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

Climate Home News reported this week on plans from India's Power and Renewable Energy Ministry to imposedutires of up to 25 per cent on solar modules and 15 per cent on cells imported from China and Malaysia. Study: China accounts for over 90 per cent of planned global coal power capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

billion grid modernization plan that includes smart meters for its nearly 1.3 million customers by 2025, adding nearly 700 megawatts of wind power, plus more solar and battery storage systems to boost rural reliability. Ameren Missouri, the largest investor-owned utility in the Midwestern state, has filed a $7.6

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Raskin’s early experiments involved using mustard to extract heavy metal pollutants half a mile from Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which unleashed catastrophic amounts of radioactive material when a reactor melted down in the mid-1980s. Its roots are deep and profuse — the better to uptake pollutants from soil.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This can be achieved using nature-based solutions such as afforestation, or engineered sinks, for example by using bio-energy with carbon capture and storage ( BECCS) or direct air capture technology (DAC). Objections to nuclear power can be seen as an antecedent to the current debate around GGR.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Energy & industry. Happy Monday!    Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The picture was less rosy for new wind and heat pumps, both of which have suffered from high interest rates. .

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

But the energy transformation it’s been chronicling for the past 14 years is just getting started. clean energy and technology community that has evolved into a mighty and globe-spanning economic force. Greentech Media closes its doors this week. The dream team.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 16, 2020

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday rejected requests to reconsider its controversial orders that will upend the $10 billion-per-year capacity market of mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM by forcing state-subsidized renewable energy resources to bid at higher prices that could render them uncompetitive.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

Virginia has become the latest state to pass a law that sets it on a path to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050, as well as setting targets for massive investments in energy efficiency, energy storage and in-state solar and wind power. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Only 3 percent of the Wyoming project’s CO2 has been geologically stored in the same formation from which the original gas was extracted, according to estimates from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). C and with the net-zero energy transition. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Duke Energy’s third-quarter earnings report on Thursday revealed success in managing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on its multistate utility operations. Historically, energy policy in North Carolina has moved in a bipartisan way," she said.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

The Trump administration has ended more than a year of delay in taking up the nomination of Democrat Allison Clements for a position on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, a move that could bring more bipartisan balance to the agency’s 3-to-1 Republican majority, if the U.S. Senate moves quickly to confirm it.

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