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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

GreenBiz

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun. We’ve spent decades promoting clean energy technologies. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossil fuels. Hunter Lovins.

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Carbon 'rainbow': Unilever pledges $1.2B to scrub fossil fuels from cleaning products

GreenBiz

to scrub fossil fuels from cleaning products. billion over the next 10 years into initiatives that will allow it to replace chemicals in its cleaning products made from fossil fuel feedstocks with greener alternatives — an investment it described as critical to meeting its aim of achieving net-zero emissions from its products by 2039.

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Report: As Climate Crisis Expands, Canada Still Hands Billions to Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

billion supporting the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry. To put that in context, Environmental Defence’s “Canada’s Fossil Fuel Funding in 2023” report estimates that the Canadian government’s accumulated subsidies to the oil and gas sector over the last four years was at least $65 billion.

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Biden's new executive order cuts fossil fuel subsidies

Inhabitat - Innovation

In a recent executive order, President Joe Biden has directed federal agencies to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. The agencies are to find new opportunities that will "spur innovation, commercialization, and deployment of clean energy technology."

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States, Trade Groups Sue EPA Over New Fossil Fuel Rules

POWER Magazine

Circuit, calling for a review of the […] The post States, Trade Groups Sue EPA Over New Fossil Fuel Rules appeared first on POWER Magazine. More than two dozen states and a handful of trade groups filed separate lawsuits in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.

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Investments in fossil fuels continues to be enormous

Energy Central

There's increasing focus on ESG and responsible investing in clean technology. Investment levels in fossil fuel companies remain robust, and that includes investments in mergers & acquisitions and expansion activities. Yet it appears that the world's biggest banks talk a a better game than they deliver.

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Battery storage takes another giant leap over fossil fuels in heart of coal country

Renew Economy

New deals for four hour batteries takes the technology make the next giant leap over the fossil fuel generators they will replace. The post Battery storage takes another giant leap over fossil fuels in heart of coal country appeared first on RenewEconomy.