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Venice Flooding Reveals A Real Hoax About Climate Change - Framing It As “Either/Or”

Forbes Green Tech

The flooding in Venice this past week was extraordinary.

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Event - E-TALIA Summit: Call for Sponsors and Speakers

Green Market Oracle

The E-TALIA Summit will take place April 28 & 29, 2020, at the Four Seasons Hotel, in Milan. More than 300 people are expected to attend. With more than 25 hours of content and more than 80 speakers this will be an important clean energy event. In such a fast-paced environment E-TALIA can help you keep up with all the latest news from the Italian renewable energy market.

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In Hawaii, Oahu & Maui Mayors Are Suing The Oil Companies

CleanTechnica

The Mayors of Maui County and Honolulu County have announced lawsuits against the fossil fuel companies. Maui Mayor Michael Victorino announced Maui's plans on October 29 and Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell announced Honolulu's plans on November.

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Open The Plug-In Hybrid Floodgates! Germany EV Sales Report

CleanTechnica

Something clicked in the German plug-in vehicle market after the summer holidays. The market had a record month (9,452 registrations) in September, and then October came and set a new record, this time 26% above the previous one! 11,926 plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) were registered, more than doubling last year's result. With China's PEV market in post-subsidy blues, this is a welcome boost to global sales.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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French EV Market Up 65%, Finally Some Reshuffling!

CleanTechnica

The French plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market had 6,433 registrations in October, up 65% year over year (YoY). Interestingly, this time, it was the plug-in hybrids (+118%) pulling the market up the most, with BEVs growing "just" 53%.

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Steady, Reliable Wind Power Wins Over Coal-Crazy Missouri

CleanTechnica

Wind power, not coal power, will anchor a new industrial park in Sedalia, Missouri with the help of a new federally funded rail connection (socialism!).

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FlixBus Plans Hydrogen Fuel Cell Test Fleet Of Electric Buses For Clean Long Distance Travel

CleanTechnica

Flixbus says it has already begun talks with bus manufacturers about the introduction of hydrogen models. Its first electric buses were manufactured by BYD and Yutong, but the company wants to provide an opportunity to all European bus manufacturers to participate in hydrogen fuel cell bus development.

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An Ultimate Tesla Model 3 User’s Guide

CleanTechnica

What happens when a writer and a software engineer purchase a Tesla Model 3? Naturally, they re-create the Tesla Model 3 User's Guide and put their own spin on it.

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World’s Largest Floating Wind Turbine Launching Soon In Portugal

CleanTechnica

20 kilometers off the coast of Viana do Castello, Portugal, is about to be the new home to the largest floating wind turbine in the world, an 8.4-megawatt (MW) ABS-classed offshore wind turbine. This is continental Europe’s first large-scale floating wind farm. A belief is that this renewable installation is ushering in the Golden Era of wind, especially offshore wind.

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Is The Ford Mustang Mach E A Tesla Killer?

CleanTechnica

Now that the specs of the Mustang Mach E have been leaked (we got them as well but decided to follow the rules and not leak them), most articles are interested in how it compares to the Model Y. It's going to be other items that differentiate the two cars and determine which one people are more comfortable with and decide to buy. Instead of listing all the ways the cars are similar, I'm going to list the ways they are different.

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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$649 Million Fine For Uber In New Jersey As Gig Economy Faces Pushback From State & Local Governments

CleanTechnica

The State of New Jersey says Uber drivers are employees and the company owes it $649 in unpaid unemployment taxes and interest. Uber disagrees.

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China General Nuclear To Invest $2.5 Billion In Wind & Solar In Mongolia

CleanTechnica

China General Nuclear group says it is investing nearly $2.5 billion to build 1 GW of solar and 2 GW of wind power in Inner Mongolia. Both are expected to come online in 2021.

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Volkswagen Seemingly Believes A Common Tesla Myth

CleanTechnica

A common Tesla myth is that you have to be wealthy to own one. In a blog post on its website, Volkswagen says that it is "making attractive and affordable electric cars for everyone. E-cars for millions – not for millionaires.".

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Zero Hour: A Movement Around Intersectionalities Between Systems Of Oppression Continuing To Cause Climate Change

CleanTechnica

Discussion about climate change by mainstream media outlets and elected officials has gained a lot of momentum in the United States (and abroad) due in large part to the work of youth climate justice activists in organizations like Zero Hour.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Trump Administration Fights Ban On Farming Pesticides, Sucks Up To Corporate Behemoths

CleanTechnica

Why are agrochemicals creating problems between the US and Thailand.

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India x Cleantech — November 2019

CleanTechnica

Originally published on Future Trends. Welcome to another issue of our new India x Cleantech series! On a monthly basis, we are pulling news from across clean technology sectors in India into a single, concise summary article about the country. Climate Policy & Carbon Tax India Eyes Global Climate Leadership India seeks to be a [&hellip.

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