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The Increasing Need and Demand for Alternative Fuel Options

The Environmental Blog

However, what’s not at debate is that there are options available to individuals in making choices for more sustainable energy consumption. Price increases alone should spur interest and demand in pursuing alternative energy sources. Finding alternatives to traditional energy consumption is crucial to continuing our modern way of life.

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Policy Advocacy Fights the Risks of Climate Change

EDF + Business

In 2022 alone, extreme weather events caused $178 billion to the United States. There’s no escaping that climate change poses serious and increasing risk to business. ” Rising temperatures and extreme weather events are direct threats to companies’ facilities, employees, and use of renewable energy grids.

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Ford establishes requirements for dealers to sell EVs

Charged

Auto dealers have long been considered a bottleneck for EV sales, and automakers that are serious about selling EVs are working closely with their dealers to make the necessary changes (and to weed out those who really don’t want to go electric). However, Ford says it will monitor dealers to make sure pricing is consistent and fair.

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EPA Will Not Require Financial Assurances From Electric Power Sector

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

These factors include: “the payment experience of the [Hazardous Substance Superfund], commercial insurers, courts settlements and judgments, and voluntary claims satisfaction.”. State law requirements. VanBelleghem. Thus, EPA’s analysis relies on several additional factors: Other federal financial responsibility requirements.

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? The nuts and bolts of grid tech

Climate Tech VC

For a 2050 net-zero future, we’ll need an electricity grid large enough that its untangled cables would be long enough to stretch all the way to the sun.    Last week, we got in tune with power markets to set the stage for a reliable, resilient, and decarbonized grid.   The grid follows a four-step value chain.

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Global methane map to launch at COP28

Envirotec Magazine

With its new Methane Map, Kayrros says it aims to make climate data more accessible, giving governments, international institutions, investors, insurers and individuals the power to scrutinise and verify emissions data and expose ‘greenwashing’. To do that effectively, however, we need accurate, independent, empirical data.

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Top 10 Utility Regulation Trends of 2019

GreenTechMedia

From the falling cost of renewables and storage driving utilities' resource planning, to the realignment of utility performance incentives with evolving policy goals, it was a busy year. Implementing 100% clean energy commitments. have now set 100 percent clean energy targets. Washington, D.C. The data bears this out.