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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm takes an EV road trip, deals with charging challenges

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US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm recently took an EV road trip from Charlotte, North Carolina to Memphis, Tennessee in order to draw attention to the billions of dollars in funding the White House is making available to promote electric vehicles. You are in the center of it,” Granholm told voters in South Carolina.

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Duke Energy Lays Out Its Long-Term Clean Energy Pathways — and Price Tags

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Duke Energy has detailed the various paths its utilities in the Carolinas could take over the next 15 years, a choice that will determine how quickly Duke cuts its carbon footprint and how much it will cost. But Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress are its biggest vertically integrated utilities, serving a combined 3.2

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Study: Climate change to blame for $8 billion of Hurricane Sandy damages

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Antonia Sebastian, an assistant professor of applied hydrology at the University of North Carolina who was not involved in the research, called the paper “exciting.” Still, the study is a good start for scientists looking to put a price tag on disasters brought on by warming temperatures, vicious hurricanes, and rising seas.

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#Solar100’s Brad Bauer: The Captain James T. Kirk of Solar Finance

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Brad Bauer: I started out working at a law firm in Boston then tagged along with my then-girlfriend, now wife, when she finished school and started practicing in San Francisco. BB: Ultimately, Cypress developing at scale outside of North Carolina, while managing the growing cost structure, was problematic. What happened?

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Princeton Maps Reveal US Plans for Massive CO2 Pipeline Buildout

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The price tag for just this stretch of pipeline is estimated to be $7 billion dollars (page 25 of Princeton report Annex). Then that is joined by CO2 pipelines from Florida and spur lines north and south that feed into a Double 48 pipeline headed west. Quite an ambitious line to draw on the map.

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COVID-19 'Liberate' Groups Are the Same Ones Pushing Climate Denial

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The well-funded machinery that sowed doubt about climate is now sowing seeds of doubt over the economic and public health response to COVID -19. .

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EPA Decides to Reject the Latest Science, Endanger Public Health and Ignore the Law by Keeping an Outdated Fine Particle Air Pollution Standard

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Christopher Frey , North Carolina State University. Read time: 5 mins. The COVID -19 pandemic and economic shutdown have temporarily produced clearer skies across the U.S. Meanwhile, however, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been busy finding reasons not to pursue long-lasting air quality gains.

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