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6 ways banks can drive EV adoption — and grab a big slice of the growing industry pie

GreenBiz

Accelerating the growth of the electric vehicle market requires capital to fund manufacturing, infrastructure and innovation.

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Making batteries takes lots of lithium: Almost half of it could come from Pennsylvania wastewater

TechXplore

Most batteries used in technology like smartwatches and electric cars are made with lithium that travels across the world before even getting to manufacturers. But what if nearly half of the lithium used in the U.S. could come from Pennsylvania wastewater?

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Queensland to build 1,200MWh publicly-owned battery storage asset at Stanwell coal power station

Energy Storage News

The state of Queensland, Australia, has committed to investing AU$448 million into battery storage technology at a coal power plant.

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Colorado Legislative Roundup: 2024

NRDC onEarth

This legislative session, Colorado once again solidified its place as a climate leader by taking on new and innovative approaches to reduce emissions and protect the environment.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Ikea is guiding its customers toward sustainable consumption. Here’s how

GreenBiz

The giant furniture retailer is using its procurement clout and in-store promotions to nudge millions of customers toward lower-emissions products.

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Scientists convert chicken fat into energy storage devices

TechXplore

The global move toward more sustainable, green energy has increased power reserves and the demand for energy storage devices. Unfortunately, some materials for these devices can be expensive and environmentally problematic. Producing alternative energy storage devices from things that are usually thrown away could help resolve these challenges.

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Unveiling Big Oil's Campaign of Lies

NRDC onEarth

An explosive hearing held by the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget has unveiled more details of Big Oil’s campaign to block climate action.

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28 courses to boost your ESG, sustainable finance skills

GreenBiz

Whether you want to learn how to make more sustainable investment choices or improve your company’s ESG performance, these 28 courses can help.

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Sky-high vanity: Constructing the world's tallest buildings creates high emissions, researchers say

TechXplore

Since ancient times, people have built structures that reach for the skies—from the steep spires of medieval towers to the grand domes of ancient cathedrals and mosques. Today the quest is to build the world's tallest skyscrapers, such as Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Soaring above the rest, its decorative spire accounts for 29% of its total height—4,000 tons of structural steel just for aesthetics.

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ROUNDUP: Ambri for sale, Varta leads sodium-ion initiative, ESS Inc completes airport project

Energy Storage News

Here's news in brief from around the world in energy storage with liquid metal battery maker Ambri, a German government-funded sodium-ion initiative, and ESS Inc’s iron flow battery project at Amsterdam.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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New York State Legislature Strikes A Blow Against Plastic Pollution

NRDC onEarth

Going, going, almost gone! Just-passed New York State legislation would prohibit the sale and distribution of fossil fuel–based, water-polluting polystyrene foam ice chests.

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Climate policy outlook: 2019 global aviation-related emissions were unreported.

GreenBiz

This week’s most important climate policy stories.

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Global analysis of 30M hydrogen energy tweets shows increase from 2015 Paris Agreement

TechXplore

Australia's hydrogen energy-related discussion on Twitter (now X) is now ranked seventh globally, according to an analysis of 30.7 million tweets conducted by QUT researchers.

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Barbados regulator knocks back utility’s 90MW BESS proposal pending cost-benefit analysis

Energy Storage News

A cost recovery application for 90MW of battery storage, filed by Barbados Light & Power Company (BLPC), has been only partially approved by the eastern Caribbean island nation’s regulator.

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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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How plasma technology can reduce the environmental impact of disposable vapes

Envirotec Magazine

David Deegan is CTO at Tetronics. Disposable e-cigarettes or vapes are big business, they are also a big problem for the environment. David Deegan of Tetronics suggests a solution that’s based on plasma technology. Single-use, disposable e-cigarettes or vapes are a big problem for the environment, one that is toxic. Since their introduction in 2003, initially as a ‘healthy’ alternative to tobacco, they have created a whole new contaminated e-waste stream.

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Tailwinds build for sustainable aviation fuel

GreenBiz

As the aviation industry lobbies for sustainable jet fuel, new tax breaks could help lower the carbon footprint of business travel.

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How Duluth, Minnesota, is preparing for the EV future

TechXplore

Nearly 33 million electric vehicles (EVs) nationwide—that is the number of vehicles the United States should be prepared to support through a national charging network by the year 2030, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimated in a recent study. Improving reliable, equitable, and widespread access to electric vehicle charging infrastructure in all communities will be critical to ensuring the continued success of the EV revolution.

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Highlighting Composting Successes from Food Matters Partners

NRDC onEarth

In honor of International Compost Awareness Week , here are some examples of NRDC's Food Matters partners expanding composting throughout their municipalities.

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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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104,000 panel solar farm set to power The University of Manchester

Envirotec Magazine

The University of Manchester has signed a landmark new deal that will see up to 65% of its electricity demand supplied through a brand-new renewables project. In a major move towards achieving its 2038 zero carbon ambitions, the University has partnered with leading UK clean energy company Enviromena to buy electricity generated from its brand-new solar farm based in Medebridge, Essex.

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Corporations buy into sustainable fuel certificates to address air travel emissions

GreenBiz

More companies are purchasing certificates to offset their Scope 3 emissions, a tactic that critics see as a potential new landscape for greenwashing.

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“Gas shortage? Yeah, nah.” A Fact Check on Labor’s fossil gas future strategy

Renew Economy

Federal resources minister Madeleine King says “evidence and data” underpin the Albanese government's Future Gas Strategy. Experts in gas markets and climate disagree. The post “Gas shortage? Yeah, nah.” A Fact Check on Labor’s fossil gas future strategy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Chart: Renewables generated a record 30% of global electricity in 2023

Canary Media

For the first year ever, renewable energy sources generated 30 percent of the globe’s electricity in 2023 — driven by a decade of consistent, spectacular growth in solar and wind power.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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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Flood risk proven by groundwater monitor

Envirotec Magazine

The OTT ecoLog 1000 water level logger in situ. West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC) in the UK recently refused a planning application on the grounds of flood risk. The proposed development included the construction of just a single dwelling within the village of Standlake. However, local campaigners were able to argue against the proposal with the benefit of groundwater level data provided by a continuous level logger that had been installed in the garden of an adjacent property.

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The great corporate decarbonization derby is on

GreenBiz

Are any technologies capable of solving the climate crisis at scale?

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Labor caves in to fossil fuel cartel as it locks in gas beyond 2050 amid deepening climate crisis

Renew Economy

On the same day that scientists warned of a deepening climate catastrophe, Labor declares gas is good and announces a plan to "lock it in" beyond 2050. The post Labor caves in to fossil fuel cartel as it locks in gas beyond 2050 amid deepening climate crisis appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Vermont is on the cusp of mandating 100% clean electricity by 2035

Canary Media

Vermont state lawmakers just passed a measure that would require all utilities to provide 100 percent clean energy by 2035. The bill would put the state on track to be among the first to fully decarbonize, outpaced only by Rhode Island, which requires utilities to provide all-renewable power by 2033.

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$3.7m crop lab will create food for ‘tomorrow’s atmosphere today’

Envirotec Magazine

Professor Tracy Lawson examines the plants being grown in the vertical farm (image credit: University of Essex). A new $3.7m facility at the University of Essex aims to make it possible to adapt plants for a hotter drier climate, preventing threats to food security, according to the group behind it. It incorporates a vertical farm, an indoor field that replicates real environments anywhere in the globe, and suites that imitate a warming world – with researchers able to raise CO2 concentration an

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Business should take these 3 actions to bolster the global plastics treaty

GreenBiz

Fresh from the treaty talks in Ottawa, two new reports outline a path forward in the fight against plastic pollution.

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Queensland quadruples size of Stanwell Tesla battery to make it biggest in the state

Renew Economy

Queensland quadruples storage capacity of Stanwell battery to make it the biggest in the state as it seeks to lock in renewable transition. The post Queensland quadruples size of Stanwell Tesla battery to make it biggest in the state appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Batteries are taking on gas plants to power California's nights

Canary Media

California spent the last decade building up a massive fleet of batteries to help clean up its electrical grid. This spring, those storage plants passed a major threshold, and now are visibly reshaping the state’s power grid — just as clean energy advocates said they would.

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Endotoxin detection technology drastically cuts time for assessing water quality, says group

Envirotec Magazine

An important advance is claimed for a technology that allows water quality to be assessed in a matter of minutes. The new Bacterisk technology was developed by Molendotech ([link] a spin-out from The University of Plymouth. It gives an accurate running water quality assessment in the field, seemingly for the first time, with results available in 15 minutes.

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Biomass, captured carbon and plastic waste can help 'defossilize' chemicals, report says

GreenBiz

Policy briefing sets out how industry can move away from fossil fuel feedstocks and embrace low carbon and sustainable alternatives

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