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Amazon, Google and Microsoft signal growing interest in nuclear, geothermal power

GreenBiz

Rising demand from artificial intelligence is forcing big technology companies to look beyond wind and solar for clean energy.

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The public health risks of PFAS-related immunotoxicity are real

NRDC onEarth

It is time to stop downplaying the potential for harm to the immune system posed by PFAS

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Ferrari Patents a Strange Hybrid Hydrogen Car With an Upside-Down Engine

FuelCellsWorks

It’s strange on the face of it, but Ferrari has some practical reasons for inverting this hybrid engine. It appears the attention of the automotive world has been captured by.

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Gas plant owner hit with big fine for sitting idle in major blackout first blamed on renewables

Renew Economy

The owners of the largest gas plant in South Australia have been hit with a heavy fine for the role it played in a major blackout in early 2017, when it sat idle and failed to comply with market rules. The post Gas plant owner hit with big fine for sitting idle in major blackout first blamed on renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Why Bayer and the Gates Foundation are using CRISPR to reduce food's climate impact

GreenBiz

Gene editing technology can help create the next generation of climate-resistant crops.

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Rule Will Cut Methane Waste from Federal Lands Drilling

NRDC onEarth

The Bureau of Land Management published a final methane waste rule that will compliment EPA’s efforts to target a major contributor to climate change.

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Queensland unveils renewable zone roadmap to connect 22GW of wind, solar and transition from coal

Renew Economy

Queensland unveils roadmap to create 12 renewable energy zones to support 22 GW of new wind and solar and its 80 pct renewables target. The post Queensland unveils renewable zone roadmap to connect 22GW of wind, solar and transition from coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Exploring the first international declaration on pathways to building decarbonization

GreenBiz

The Declaration de Chaillot marks a major achievement for countries trying to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement.

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EPA’s new partners plot a $27 billion path to a US green bank

Impact Alpha

The announcement of the winners of “green bank” funding under the Inflation Reduction Act is so close at hand that the Environmental Protection. The post EPA’s new partners plot a $27 billion path to a US green bank appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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ITM power and sumitomo complete installation of first of its kind demonstration electrolyser in japan

FuelCellsWorks

ITM Power is pleased to announce a milestone in its collaboration with Sumitomo Corporation. ITM Power is pleased to announce a milestone in its collaboration with Sumitomo Corporation: the delivery.

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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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California extends 100 pct renewables streak to 17 out of last 18 days

Renew Economy

California extends its run of reaching a peak of more than 100 per cent renewables to 17 out of the last 18 days. The post California extends 100 pct renewables streak to 17 out of last 18 days appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Dispatch from London: How corporate sustainability will change in 2024

GreenBiz

On the near-term horizon: Artificial intelligence, nature and biodiversity risks, and a muting of ambitious public climate goals.

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Geothermal is the hottest thing in clean energy. Here’s why

Canary Media

Earth’s interior contains an inexhaustible supply of heat, its many layers continuously warmed by the furnace-like core of our planet. For millennia, humans have tapped into this abundance for cooking food and keeping warm.

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Innovative Liquid Hydrogen Storage Systems Set to Revolutionize Energy Sector

FuelCellsWorks

Liquid hydrogen is currently transported and stored using ball storage devices. However, these are not optimal for large-scale use. A European consortium led by the Federal Institute for Materials Research.

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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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Australia’s biggest coal generator teams up with SunDrive to make solar at Liddell

Renew Economy

AGL signs MoU with Cannon-Brookes backed PV innovator SunDrive to explore "first of its kind" solar manufacturing at site of the shuttered Liddell plant. The post Australia’s biggest coal generator teams up with SunDrive to make solar at Liddell appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How Patagonia and Seventh Generation include banks in their climate action plans

GreenBiz

Corporate cash deposits are a huge source of carbon emissions, and sustainability leaders need to engage their bankers.

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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue, dominates the pastureland from Missouri and Arkansas in the west to the coast of the Carolinas in the east. Within that swath, a quarter of the nation’s cows — more than 15 million in all — graze fields that stay green through the winter while the rest of the region’s grasses turn brown and go dormant.

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French Fuel Cell Developer Inocel Accelerates Its Development With Financing of €64M

FuelCellsWorks

INOCEL, a pioneering player in high-power fuel cell systems for stationary energy generation, land and maritime mobility, validates structuring financing of €64M composed of equity, debt and subsidies. Historical shareholders.

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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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Nuclear ranks last on list of good investments by big institutions

Renew Economy

The vast majority of investors do not see nuclear power as a good investment, with less than one in 10 exploring this technology, new survey finds. The post Nuclear ranks last on list of good investments by big institutions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How fashion giants are tackling water risks in cotton supply chains

GreenBiz

Apparel companies are taking action to bolster their water-management commitments and practices.

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Three Steps to Modernize America’s Electric Grid and Unlock the Green Energy Economy

POWER Magazine

America faces many energy-related challenges going forward, but none is more important than the need to modernize the U.S. electric grid—but right now the permitting process for building out and […] The post Three Steps to Modernize America’s Electric Grid and Unlock the Green Energy Economy appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Nikola Launches Alberta’s First Commercial Hydrogen Fueling Station in the Edmonton Region

FuelCellsWorks

Decarbonizing Alberta’s busiest highway, kickstarting the expansion of Western Canada’s hydrogen fueling network. EDMONTON METROPOLITAN REGION– Today marks a significant milestone in the 5,000 Hydrogen Vehicle Challenge as Blackjacks Roadhouse unveils Alberta’s first.

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Farmers double the value of back paddocks with renewable power deals

Renew Economy

Some farmers are getting almost double the value of back paddocks in land deals struck with renewable energy and storage developers. The post Farmers double the value of back paddocks with renewable power deals appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Walmart funds almost 1 gigawatt in new U.S. solar power

GreenBiz

Half the power needed by the world’s largest retailer now comes from clean energy projects.

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US landfills emit far more methane than previously known

Grist

A landfill is a place of perpetual motion, where mountains of garbage can rise in days and crews race to contain the influx of ever more trash. Amid the commotion, an invisible gas often escapes unnoticed, warming the planet and harming our health: methane. On Thursday, the climate-data sleuths at Carbon Mapper published a study in Science that shows the nation’s landfills emit that gas at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Hydrogen Industry Pleads for Easier Path to US Tax Credits

FuelCellsWorks

WASHINGTON– Some companies planning to use new U.S. tax credits to deploy hydrogen projects urged the Treasury Department this week to ease proposed environmental requirements, warning that they could hinder.

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Biggest solar and battery project in NSW waved through by Plibersek

Renew Economy

Federal government waves through plans for what could be biggest solar farm in NSW, and biggest battery in the country. The post Biggest solar and battery project in NSW waved through by Plibersek appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Biden administration announces $6 billion in clean energy funding

GreenBiz

Historic amount signals what companies might expect from another four years of Biden.

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Biden admin invests $6B to cut carbon from steel, cement — and snacks

Canary Media

U.S. factories making industrial essentials like steel, aluminum, cement, chemicals — and even household staples like ice cream and mac and cheese — are about to get a whole lot cleaner.

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UK to Launch Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles for Farming and Construction, Embracing Clean Energy Transition

FuelCellsWorks

Greener construction and farming vehicles set to improve sustainability by reducing emissions from the tailpipe. hydrogen-powered diggers and tractors could be a regular sight on Great Britain’s roads thanks to.

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“Lights out:” Gina Rinehart-backed gas company warns of “death knell” without taxpayer funds

Renew Economy

Gina Rinehart-backed gas company wants Australian government to stop reducing demand for gas and to include it in capacity investment scheme. The post “Lights out:” Gina Rinehart-backed gas company warns of “death knell” without taxpayer funds appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Why H&M is turning away from polyester recycled from bottles

GreenBiz

The fashion industry has found a circular solution to its textile recycling problem.

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Ensuring Equitable Access to Capital for Cleantech Founders

LA CleanTech Incubator

By Matt Petersen, LACI President and CEO Cleantech founders are an incredibly inspiring bunch. With the boldness to go where few–if any–previous entrepreneurs have gone, and the brilliance to develop meaningful solutions that serve our communities, these founders reflect the true spirit of innovation. Still, the road that founders face in developing, deploying, and.