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How steel might finally kick its coal habit

Grist

Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 And if the facility can use cheap, plentiful renewable electricity, perhaps from a hydropower plant, its steel would cost less than the competition. “At Steelmakers worldwide are facing mounting pressure from government regulators and consumers to decarbonize operations.

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Cascadia is known for strong climate action. So why are emissions still rising?

Grist

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

Firstly, current federal tax credits for developing onshore and offshore wind, solar, biomass, landfill gas, waste-to-energy, hydropower, geothermal, and marine renewable power projects - which had faced cuts from 2022 - are to be extended until 2025 under the Act. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.

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Revealed: Two Thirds of Online Posts from Six Major European Fossil Fuel Companies ‘Greenwashing’

DeSmogBlog

The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”. However, 13 percent of Shell’s posts focussed specifically on renewable energies such as wind, solar, and hydropower. ” Jonathan White, a lawyer at ClientEarth.