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New California Energy Policy Simulator Modeling Shows Major Benefits Of Early Action

Energy Innovation

Under the state’s landmark AB 32 climate law, CARB is required to evaluate the state’s progress toward its goals and make recommendations every five years. This year’s Draft Scoping Plan proposes a pathway to achieve the state’s target of 40 percent emissions below 1990 levels and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045. .

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Sowing Doubt: How Big Ag is Delaying Sustainable Farming in Europe

DeSmogBlog

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution.

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Rooftop solar skyrockets if an alternative to monopoly utility models is employed

Renewable Energy World

When the first solar arrays were installed at homes, it made electric meters — as unprepared as the utility that owned them — run backward. In Minnesota, helpfully, Xcel Energy is required by state law and public regulators to file an annual value of solar calculation.

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Laying Down Our Markers

Elemental Excelerator

While a North Star defines the way toward your destination, you need an array of instruments and maps to ever arrive there. Our energy systems will be increasingly decarbonized and distributed, with variable and firm low-carbon energy sources gaining increasing market share. Not gradually and one at a time — urgently and all at once.

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How to lay the foundation for net zero carbon building projects

Business Green

Designed and executed with care, net-zero carbon goals can offer more than sustainability window dressing for commercial buildings in the decades to come. As we're moving from what was traditionally an avoidance of carbon emissions to avoid climate change, we're now moving much more into adaptation," she said. Risk and adaptation.

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

DeSmogBlog

Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. Studies show these activities represent the majority of the sector’s emissions, yet many meat companies exclude them when calculating their carbon footprint. Meat Industry Playbook.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Zack Angelini, 29. Senior Environmental Stewardship Manager, Timberland; Malden, Massachusetts.