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JANUARY 5, 2024

kWh) and a shorter range (251 km), but it sports a lower price tag: RMB 58,800 ($8,300) compared to RMB 62,800-66,800. Many Chinese automakers are developing sodium-ion batteries. The compact JMEV EV3 comes in several variants—lithium-ion versions have a battery pack capacity of 31.15 kWh and a range of 301 km (CLTC).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In a clear signal of how the fossil fuel industry feels about efforts to enact Rights of Nature protections that safeguard communities and the environment from the impacts of coal, gas, and oil development, an energy company has — yet again — filed a federal lawsuit challenging a local law in Grant Township, Pennsylvania.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Housing and Urban Development Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program, sit on the roof of New York City Housing Authority’s Ocean Bay Apartments in New York, NY. New technologies like heat pumps and solar panels that can save energy, lower utility bills, and prevent greenhouse gas emissions often come with a hefty price tag initially.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 16, 2020

Staffers who helped develop Washington Gov. Tags: Jay Inslee COVID-19 joe biden stimulus Evergreen Action Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY - SA 3.0

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2020

The program is still in early stages of development, but groups tied to petroleum interests and conservative networks funded by the Koch empire are already fighting it with opposition campaigns.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2020

Lawsuits demanding accountability and action on the existential threat of climate change continue to take hold across the world with some significant new developments and new cases emerging over the past year, according to a new report on trends in global climate change litigation.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Residents and activists from the greater Pittsburgh area fear that worsening air quality will lower the value of homes, deter new clean business development, and sicken people. “It Tags: pennsylvania air pollution petrochemical development Ohio River Valley steel Royal Dutch Shell Plc

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2020

Read time: 4 mins Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak announced on Monday, June 22, that Nevada would be developing a policy to increase the number of zero and low-emission vehicles sold within the state. Tags: clean car standards Clean Cars Nevada Nevada zero emission vehicles Trump Administration

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2020

The project’s developer, the Decro Group, has pledged that the new building, which is one of six active multi-family developments under construction in a five-block radius, will provide supportive and affordable housing for “chronically homeless individuals, persons at risk of becoming homeless, and low-income families.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 1, 2020

Read time: 3 mins A federal appeals court ruled April 1 that the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) had no basis to withhold one key part of a computer model used by the agency to develop its less stringent greenhouse gas emission standards for new vehicles.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Tags: Greta Thunberg Donald Trump petrochemical development Coalition Against Death Alley cancer alley Throughout 2019 the Trump administration continued to roll back environmental standards. Meanwhile, advocacy groups and activists ramped up the battle for clean air and water and a livable climate. .

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2020

Read time: 27 mins Cancerous lesions have developed across Keith MacDonald’s body and his son is dead from leukemia. Tags: Royal Dutch Shell Al Furat Petroleum Company (AFPC) His life has disintegrated, and in his eyes fault lies with the third richest company on earth.

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JULY 24, 2020

James Sharon Lavigne petrochemical development Tags: Formosa RISE St. Major construction activities at the site will not move forward until February 2021 under the terms of today’s agreement, with the company required to provide monthly status reports including photographs of work underway and completed.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Technologies developed for the passenger or heavy-duty vehicle industries simply cannot be repurposed for the medium-duty segment.”. Better technology often comes with outrageous price tags, and we’re seeing today’s medium-duty EVs performing for half the life of today’s ICE vehicles at triple the cost,” adds Harris.

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Charged

JANUARY 30, 2023

In partnership with Boston-based Electra Vehicles , Automobili Estrema developed a battery management system that continuously optimizes the power delivered by the battery cells and the ultracapacitors to maximize efficiency and performance, based on the operating environment, battery conditions and driving style. Source: autoevolution

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

Tags: Kalama washington state Jay Inslee petrochemical development The facility is highly controversial and would have an enormous greenhouse gas impact, but NWIW has lined up powerful figures in the State of Washington to help make the company’s case.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

oil majors like Exxon and Chevron are failing to grapple with the energy sector’s transition away from polluting fossil fuels and refusing to disclose potential risks to their portfolios from assets that may become “stranded,” or uneconomical to develop, in a low-carbon world, new research from the London-based think tank Carbon Tracker shows.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2020

Tags: petrochemical development COVID-19 Center for International Environmental Law fracking finances oil bailout

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FEBRUARY 10, 2024

They’ve developed a flexible platform that will not only deploy to several types of vehicles but will be a large install base for software and services,” Farley said, adding that Ford plans to focus more on smaller EVs. All of our EV teams are ruthlessly focused on cost, and efficiency, in our EV products,” said Farley.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Tags: Royal Dutch Shell Plc ethane Beaver County Pennsylvania petrochemical development Fracking Plastics america coal pennsylvania A growing chorus agrees the expansion of the natural gas industry, which feeds plastics and petrochemical plants like Shell’s, is moving the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Read time: 3 mins BlackRock, Vanguard, Citigroup, and JPM organ Chase are among the top global financers of new coal development, according to new research presented during the United Nations climate summit in Madrid. Tags: Paris Agreement blackrock Vanguard Citigroup JPMorgan Chase Coal Power Generation Finance

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Finnish technology research group VTT will develop sustainable materials and manufacturing processes for electronic products, as well as circularity enablers, namely smart tags as data carriers for digital product passports. Earlier this year, VTT announced the successful development of a sustainable ECG patch.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2020

The project developer cited the “current Canadian political context” as the reason why Berkshire Hathaway bailed on them, including recent rail blockades led by hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation in British Columbia. Tags: LNG Wet'suwet'en Coastal GasLink pipeline US LNG Exports American Petroleum Institute

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Fink described the first tier of this “ structure of social change ” strategy as “investment in intellectual raw materials” and the “exploration and production of abstract concepts and theories” that academia would develop. . Nearly two and a half decades later, Koch influence in the academic sphere is far ranging.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2020

Tags: cancer alley Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) Formosa plastics petrochemical development I spoke to Lavigne, who has tirelessly fought the project since the fall of 2018, just after news broke of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality’s ( LDEQ ) decisions for Formosa.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Faculty at the University of Colorado’s engineering school, in partnership with graduate students and K-12 teachers have developed and classroom tested an online resource, the TeachEngineering collection, which showcases engineering in everyday life as the context for student learning. These materials, developed with support from the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2020

Tags: cancer alley Formosa Environmental Integrity Project petrochemical development LNG Exports James plant would be the single most polluting facility of 157 planned new or expanding refineries, liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) export projects, and petrochemical plants that have sought or obtained air pollution permits in the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 4, 2020

Read time: 4 mins It is increasingly unlikely that Ireland will develop new infrastructure to import liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) produced from fracked wells in the US , after the plans suffered a series of potentially fatal legal and political setbacks. Tags: Liquefied Natural Gas Ireland

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GreenBiz

MARCH 3, 2021

The larger commercial vehicles — such as Class 8 trucks — are more difficult to electrify due to a lack of models from manufacturers and a higher price tag than their diesel equivalent. FedEx Express is developing an electric infrastructure strategy that it says can be used anywhere in the world.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

The trials which include city-wide returnable takeaway packaging; electronic tagging of reusable alternatives and doorstep packaging collections, involved over 100 food and drink businesses. The impact and learnings from six reuse projects, funded by over £1.4

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Tags: cancer alley petrochemical development Wanhua Chemical Butler was part of a group of residents, local community groups, and environmental advocacy nonprofits that took part in a concentrated battle to stop the Wanhua plant from being built. .

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The permit , given to the company Alaska-Alberta Railway Development Corporation , is the same type of border-crossing permit that Trump approved in 2017 for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Canada border into Alaska.

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Charged

JUNE 30, 2023

The good news is that this estimate is far lower than the $50-billion price tag indicated by a similar study conducted by analytics firm Kevala for the CPUC in 2021. The Public Advocates Office plans to complete its study by August.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Here are some insights from the UN Development Program (UNDP) poll of 1.2 For example, 19 years ago Levi’s launched its "Care Tag for Our Planet" campaign, which included changing the care instructions to recommend cold wash, promote line drying and donate garments when they are no longer needed. See graph below.).

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2019

James Parish Louisiana petrochemical development Tags: cancer alley Pastor Harry Joseph RISE St. James where she had lived, and are emblematic of the type of polluting industry she spent her last years rallying against.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Several recent developments in the rail arena are setting up the tar sands industry to realize those plans in a major way. Tags: oil by rail Bomb Trains Canadian tar sands oil Alaska to Alberta Mike Dunleavy

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

billion plan to develop methanol plants in this corner of the Pacific Northwest. Tags: washington state methanol petrochemical development U.S. It has applied for funding from a controversial Department of Energy “Advanced Fossil Energy Projects” program — an $8.5 Department of Energy Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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