Remove Array
article thumbnail

GTM’s Live Coronavirus Blog: The Impact on Clean Energy

GreenTechMedia

Tesla Closes Its Factories in California and New York : As calls for people to stay home grew increasingly urgent, Tesla announced plans to close two plants making electric vehicles and products for the solar and energy storage markets. This week's podcast episode of Political Climate takes a look. Will other U.S.

Energy 230
article thumbnail

A community remembers an environmental leader

Greenability Magazine

Dennis Murphey, retired chief environmental officer for Kansas City, MO, led the city’s effort to fight climate change for 13 years, putting Kansas City on the map for its 40-percent reduction in municipal greenhouse gas emissions. He died of COVID-19 on October 27. Murphey joined the city in 2006 and retired in June 2019.

Education 138
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Poll: Ontarians are interested in electric vehicles, but lack of provincial action is a barrier

Clean Energy Canada

Key findings include: 55% think climate change is a serious problem and more action needs to be taken to fight it, but only 25% think Premier Doug Ford would agree with that assessment. Many voters want more action to fight climate change and many like the appeal of e-vehicles as a choice they can make to help protect the planet.

article thumbnail

How the net zero sceptics' medieval arguments are being overwhelmed by a very modern reality

Business Green

And yet, so complete is their disconnect from the real world that these zombie arguments continue to stumble across the political landscape desperately looking for an issue, any issue, to attack. The UK would be in a lot better position from an energy cost and security perspective if it had more renewables and electric vehicles, not less.

article thumbnail

How can the UK encourage greener, cheaper energy behaviours this winter?

Business Green

That comes on top of its previously pledged £28bn a year investment on wider climate action. The UK has made great progress towards decarbonisation, but will not reach net zero by 2050 unless people rapidly adopt new technologies and change their behaviours," he explains.

article thumbnail

The road to electric vehicles is paved with disruption

GreenBiz

The road to electric vehicles is paved with disruption. The expectation that electric vehicles will displace the internal combustion engine continues to accelerate. Proponents of electric vehicles forthrightly acknowledge the many technological, management, political and consumer challenges that lie ahead.

article thumbnail

Is the UK squandering its green economy leadership?

Business Green

There were plenty of missteps and missed opportunities along the way, but over the past 12 years the UK took coal from around 40 per cent of the power mix to less than two per cent, built a genuinely world leading offshore wind industry, embraced electric vehicles, and built an ecosystem of cutting-edge clean tech and green finance firms.