Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A new technology based on fluorescence is being developed to detect if honey has been blended with cheaper additions such as sugar syrup. The brainchild of Aston University and The Scottish Bee Company – With help and support from the British Beekeepers Association and the Honey Authenticity Network UK – the approach appears to offer a solution to this, the second most prevalent form of food fraud worldwide (after milk-related fraud).

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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A new memo from President Biden acknowledges that the ecological peril confronting the Columbia River Basin is inextricably linked to long-standing environmental injustices.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Wind and solar reached 100 per cent of demand on 282 days in last year in South Australia, and the state will average 100 per cent within a few years, grid owner says. The post South Australia to reach 100 pct wind and solar within a few years, says network company appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

One of the owners of GB News runs a hedge fund that has a major financial stake in more than 100 oil and gas firms, DeSmog can reveal. This news comes after former prime minister Boris Johnson was announced as a new presenter on the television broadcaster on Friday. An investigation by DeSmog in May found that one in three GB News presenters had spread climate science denial on air in 2022, while more than half had attacked climate action.

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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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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Climate activist taken away by Met police after protesters denounce meeting of fossil fuel executives and ministers Greta Thunberg was arrested after joining hundreds of protesters who gathered at a five-star hotel in London on Tuesday morning to denounce a meeting branded “the Oscars of oil”. Footage showed the Swedish climate activist being bundled into the back of a van by police after taking part in protests blocking the entrances of the InterContinental on Park Lane, the venue for the Energ

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts continues its work to build a geothermal system that will contribute to making the campus carbon-neutral by the end of the decade. With an estimated cost of USD 220 million, the ambitious project will make the Smith College fully independent from fossil fuels for their heating and cooling The Geothermal Campus Energy Project of Smith College was first announced in 2022 after receiving the approval from the board of trustees to begin construction,

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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A new NRDC report finds that California only allocates 18.6% of transportation funds to low-carbon mobility choices. Read the full report here.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 26, 2023

South Australia gets a glimpse of its "net" 100 per cent renewable future, with wind and solar meeting 99.8 per cent of state demand in the last seven days. The post South Australia grid operates at 99.8 per cent wind and solar over past seven days appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A campaign to deny Indigenous peoples a voice in Australia’s national Parliament is using tactics similar to an earlier conservative legal battle against First Nations communities in Canada, a new research paper argues. That’s no coincidence, according to the paper’s author Jeremy Walker, because think tanks linked to these efforts in Canada and Australia belong to a secretive U.S. organization called the Atlas Network that’s received support from oil, gas and coal companies and operates in near

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A California-headquartered energy company announced the start of commercial operation of one of the nation’s largest solar-plus-storage hybrid power plants. Officials with Clearway Energy Group, along with California Gov. Gavin […] The post Major Solar-Plus-Storage Project Online at Retired Gas-Fired Power Plant appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Eavor Technologies Inc. (Eavor) has announced the successful completion of $182 million in funding following an equity round led by OMV AG , with participation from Canada Growth Fund (CGF), Japan Energy Fund, Monaco Asset Management and Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. Existing investors BDC, bp Ventures, Eversource Energy, Temasek, and Vickers Venture Partners contributed and supported the funding round, while Chubu Electric Power Co.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 9, 2023

First of 277 turbines goes into operation at site that will produce enough energy for 6m homes a year The first turbine to be completed in a project to build the world’s largest offshore windfarm, in the North Sea, has begun powering British homes and businesses. Developers confirmed on Monday that Dogger Bank, which sits 70 nautical miles off the coast of Yorkshire, started producing power over the weekend as the first of 277 turbines was connected to the electricity grid.

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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The recent Draft Environmental Impact Statement ignores the threats to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s drinking water source and violates tribal treaty rights and sovereignty in a severe environmental injustice.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Wind and solar deliver more than 70 pct of generation on main grid for first time, as the share of renewables hits a new instantaneous peak of 72.5 pct. The post Wind and solar smash records as renewables reach new peak of 72.5 pct on main grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The main regulator of North Sea oil and gas doesn’t conduct physical inspections to ensure companies operating in the region are following the rules, DeSmog can reveal. The revelations, labelled “deeply troubling” by campaigners, come as the government and the regulator, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), have announced plans to approve drilling at a new oil field, Rosebank, that could produce 69,000 barrels of oil and 44 million cubic feet of gas a day.

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) MARVEL microreactor achieved 90% final design, a key step that will allow the project to move forward with preparation for fabrication and construction. “This […] The post ‘Incredible Milestone’ Reached on MARVEL Microreactor Enables Project to Proceed appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 4, 2023

There’s a lot of empty land along California’s highways — and the state will soon be looking at how it can fill some of it up with solar panels, batteries and power lines to help meet its clean energy targets.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Canada-based geothermal developer and engineering firm Subterra Renewables (Subterra) has announced that drilling is underway for a geothermal systems installation at the Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio, U.S. When completed in 2027, this will be the largest geothermal project in Ohio and will provide geothermal heating and cooling to the university’s 55-plus buildings, thereby displacing the current century-old heating system.

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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 5, 2023

First, Flint, Michigan; then, Jackson, Mississippi. Communities around the country wonder if their water quality problems will lead to the next national crisis.

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FuelCellsWorks

OCTOBER 27, 2023

At Rotterdam’s Tweede Maasvlakte industrial park, King Willem-Alexander officially gets work underway on the construction of the first section of hydrogen infrastructure that will span 1,200 kilometres in total. The.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Striding out on alpine hikes, mingling at rooftop soirées and lending office space free of charge – these are just some of the ways Big Ag has sought to win over influential EU lawmakers on critical green reforms in recent years. These relationship-building activities have helped to forge a powerful alliance in Brussels between select politicians from the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) and those with a commercial interest in slowing moves to more nature-friendly farming: pesticide ma

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Standard Power, a provider of infrastructure as a service to advanced data processing companies, has chosen NuScale Power’s small modular reactor (SMR) technology to power two facilities it plans to […] The post NuScale Gets a Win with SMRs for Data Centers in Ohio and Pennsylvania appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The BESS comes online as batteries generally begin to have a noticeable influence on the energy market. The post Biggest battery facility in NSW is now fully operational appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 11, 2023

If you’re holding off on buying an EV until your electric dream car is cheaper than a gas-powered car, your wait may be over. The tipping point on price parity has been reached, so you’ll have to find another excuse to stick with fossil fuels. Just look at the trend for the U.S. market leader, Tesla.

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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Michigan lawmakers approve Filter First bills providing the nation’s strongest protections against lead in drinking water at schools and childcare centers.

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FuelCellsWorks

OCTOBER 8, 2023

With increasing sightings of the hydrogen CR-V being tested on public roads in Japan, anticipation is mounting for its official launch. Since its announcement for the Japanese market, Honda’s CR-V.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The UK government’s weakening of its windfall tax on energy profits matched the demands of a high-level lobbying campaign by the oil and gas industry, new research reveals. Trade body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), formerly Oil and Gas UK, and its operator members including BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies, and Equinor, met with ministers at least 210 times in the 12 months following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Sweden has joined the growing list of countries discussing nuclear power as part of a strategy to produce more electricity while also decarbonizing power generation. Lawmakers in June adopted new targets as The post 10 New Reactors Discussed as Sweden Looks to Expand Nuclear Power appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Social media posts are full of hot air in claiming wind turbines take years of operation to make up for the energy needed to manufacture them. This is false. The post Fact Check: Wind turbine energy claim is all spin and no power appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, tips and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power. Canary thanks Lunar Energy for its support of the column.

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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Wildcat Loadout expansion could load 100,000 barrels of oil per day onto trains traveling beside the Colorado River and destined for Gulf Coast Refineries.

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FuelCellsWorks

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Sydney– Pure Hydrogen is pleased to provide an update on the hydrogen-powered waste removal truck for leading Australian waste management business, JJ’s Waste & Recycling. Following ADR compliance testing, the.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Michael Gove and Kemi Badenoch are due to speak at a major event next week alongside leading critics of climate action, DeSmog can report. The three-day conference is being hosted in London by the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship , which shares its directors with the startup broadcaster GB News. ARC was launched in March to address six “fundamental issues of our time”, including “energy and resources” and “environmental stewardship”.

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The much-watched Advanced Clean Energy Storage Hub (ACES Delta)—a project shaping up to be the largest renewable hydrogen energy hub in the U.S.—has received its first shipment of large-scale hydrogen […] The post ACES Delta’s Hydrogen Electrolyzers Arrive in Big Boost for Hub’s Progress appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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