ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The opportunity offshore geothermal resources present could be a game-changer in supporting the United Nations Development Programme’s 2023 Sustainable Development Goals including clean energy, climate action, and partnerships for sustainable development,” said Peter Whiting, EVP of Geoscience, CGG.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

A UN-backed report funded by the EU outlines a proposal whereby the recycling of certain components and sub-systems within electronic equipment should be mandated by law. Recovery technologies and processes are well established for some CRMs, such as palladium from printed circuit boards or cobalt from lithium-ion batteries.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Under current EU law and also post Brexit, manufacturers retain responsibility for the safe disposal of electric car batteries. This project aims to provide a standardised and reliable route for recycling and repurposing lithium iron car batteries at a scale that can cope with the expected sales of electric vehicles in the UK.

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Batteries Electricity Electric vehicle Recycling 189

Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 15, 2022

The event featured three panels, which explored the changing laws, technologies, and industry dynamics at play in the battery storage sector, Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG), and electric transmission planning respectively. Innovative technologies are, however, helping manufacturers to sidestep the lithium bottleneck.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 12, 2024

The new law also changes the duties of the Energy Conservation and Management Division of the Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department to make them the authority in regulating the exploration, development, and production of geothermal resources on public and private land.

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Charged

JULY 26, 2023

Conversely, an old EV battery is essentially a small mineral reserve filled with extremely concentrated and high-quality materials like lithium and nickel that can be reused again and again.” Once this oil is burned, it is gone forever.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Katie Smith of law firm Reddie & Grose LLP examines where the approach fits into the energy storage landscape. Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power may provide a sustainable solution, but their output is intermittent and varies with environmental conditions leading to periods of oversupply and periods of undersupply.

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Green Living Guy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

All because Ford is exploring all-electric, purpose-built law enforcement vehicles. DEARBORN, Mich., 17, 2021 – Ford is paving the way for electric police fleets in America. As part of its more than $30 billion investment in electrification through 2025. The post In Pursuit of Zero Emissions, Ford Submits All?

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Charged

JANUARY 18, 2023

Thanks to the “Buy American” requirements of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and similar provisions in the EU’s new Battery Directive, traceability is becoming a critical function in the EV industry. The issues of sustainability and encouraging domestic supply chains are closely related.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 27, 2022

In particular it is intended to inform the implementation of the EU’s forthcoming Battery Regulation , which is expected to be passed into law around mid-year, according to a statement. Circulor has received investments previously from Volvo and Mercedes-Benz on battery emissions and supply chain traceability.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

The good news is that even though we’re not moving fast enough, sustainability in business is mainstream — a must-do, not a nice-to-do. The forces driving companies toward sustainability are relentless … yet we’re not doing enough and some powerful counter-pressures are in play. I can’t answer that easily.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law, allocates nearly $9 billion in rebates for home energy efficiency and electrification, but renters don’t yet have access to rebates at the point of sale for heat pumps, electric water heaters, or induction stoves the way homeowners do.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

According to early documents seen by Climate Home News this week, the multilateral development bank is considering broadening its current "twin goals" of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity to additionally emphasise the importance of sustainability and climate change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

CGDC is aiming to produce 640,000 litres of sustainable rum - which will be 'tropically' matured over a period of five to 10 years - from the summer of 2022, and has calculated that up to 100 jobs would be generated locally at the planned distillery.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Manufactured in the UK, the lithium-ion batteries are designed to be repaired, upgraded, reused and recycled, setting the approach apart from most other batteries which are often thrown away when a component fails, according to Aceleron. "By By choice or by law all industries will soon have to decarbonise," he said.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Greentown Labs’ mission to design a more sustainable world closely aligns with Olin’s mission to graduate engineers who have the skills and desire to make the world a better place,” said President Barabino. from Lewis and Clark Law School, where she was a member of the Law Review, and a B.A. Thakar holds a J.D.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

They include the rare earth elements and other metals such as lithium, indium, tellurium, gallium, and platinum group elements. Our reliance on primary sources sustains the mines where environmentally questionable practices are often used. This has to stop. We have to change. A truly circular economy beckons.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Sustainability is becoming increasingly important for the consumer pool, which is dominated by Millennials and Gen Z-ers. Furthermore, sustainability often reduces business costs and improves efficiency. A sustainability audit can help you identify your problem areas and develop a sustainability program.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Ohm’s Law tradeoff between current and voltage pushed the EV industry, which needs to reduce weight and cost everywhere they can, to quickly migrate to high-voltage battery packs using 3- to 4-VDC lithium-ion cells.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Some of these challenges, such as those around the cobalt used in lithium-ion batteries, are well known. Given its de facto status as a sustainable industry, shareholders are more likely to demand transparency and accountability beyond that mandated by laws such as the U.K. Modern Slavery Act.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including Denmark's new climate law and the Australian mining sector's net zero pledge. Denmark agrees 'landmark' climate action law. IETA sets out net zero carbon trading vision.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The IRMA standard is a chance to put mining onto a new path of sustainability and accountability. According to Anisa Kamadoli Costa, chief sustainability officer at Tiffany, the company helped create and pushed forward a methodology for determining a living wage in a variety of countries.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The bipartisan infrastructure bill was signed into law. we’ve probably seen this the most in sustainable aviation fuels so far. Infrastructure Month! Here’s a summary from Canary Media. Here’s another summary from the AP. This is one way in which this wave of climate tech is different from cleantech 1.0?—?certain

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The falling cost of solar panels and lithium-ion batteries means that microgrids can generate power every day, in a way that would not be economical with a diesel backup generator. She said she hopes the new process, prompted by a law passed last year to help the commercialization of microgrids, will clarify some of the opportunities.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But the solutions are there On the other hand, the report stresses there is still time to deliver a low-carbon, sustainable economy where climate-resilient development becomes the norm. And the private sector is playing a starring role in this collective failure, as the actors that make the real economy work.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

The company claims the technology is more sustainable than battery energy storage systems because it does not rely on finite rare earth minerals, such as lithium or cobalt. However, GAF Energy, the solar product arm of one of the largest roofing companies in the US, is hoping to buck this trend.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2019, it issued a $1 billion sustainability bond , the first corporation to do so.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting. Energy & industry.

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Charged

AUGUST 18, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced more than $192 million in additional financing for recycling consumer product batteries, forming an advanced battery R&D collaboration and continuing the 2019 Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize. The Battery Recycling Prize launched in January 2019 has to date awarded $5.5

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Those wells are going to last around 50 to 100 years, so you also want to manage the resource under the ground and make sure that the thermal resource is sustainable. If you heat a building with oil or gas, you will have a huge carbon footprint that in many places is no longer allowed by law. This requires a lot of good modeling.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Brausch for The Verge The effort to climate-proof our housing is running into a mess of problems, including aging housing stock, out-of-date zoning laws, and NIMBY-ism. We’re going to be toying with flywheel systems for energy storage, which are not lithium-based,” Warner says. There’s also the issue of zoning laws across the country.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Substances like acid, lead, nickel, lithium, and mercury. You can learn about the state of California’s existing regulations here as an example of what strict disposal laws look like. Always take personal accountability for your junk and remember that it’s everyone’s obligation to help keep our planet sustainable.

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Charged

MARCH 11, 2024

There’s much hand-wringing in the press these days about battery raw materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel. Rare earths are used in nickel metal hydride batteries, but not really to a significant extent in lithium-ion batteries. Charged : Of course, sustainability is another good reason to build domestic supply chains.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 8, 2021

| Changing Climate Change Beliefs This month, we’re highlighting big climate policy news in Illinois, how the battery materials supply chain is evolving, why sustainable aviation fuels may be a Goldilocks solution, and changing beliefs on climate change. Credit: International Air Transport Association SAF?—?A

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Businesses leaders urge EU committees to champion Nature Restoration Law An alliance of 12 major business networks is this week urging key European Parliament committees to support and strengthen a proposed Nature Restoration Law, which if passed would set out legally binding goals for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Zero-emission shipping is sustain needed to sustain our planet as well as our economy , and time is of the essence. It is an argument based on existing convention or belief, but not grounded in- or prohibited by the laws of physics. There are only about seven years remaining to stay below the 1.5°C

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