Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The average price tag on an electric vehicle (EV) could shoot up by £2,800 in the UK in the event of a 'no-deal' Brexit, with resulting tariffs imposed on battery imports likely to effectively cancel out consumer savings from the government's plug-in car grants scheme, Britain's car industry has warned.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil. The UK government has defended its decision to celebrate representatives of companies involved in Canada’s controversial tar sands industry as “Climate Champions”, ahead of the COP26 UN climate summit it is set to host later this year.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

For one, Nick Charter, professor of behavioural science at Warwick Business School, suggests the government introduced a 'carbon pound' tagged to all goods and services that would alert consumers to the environmental impact of their purchases and activities.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

However, investing in renewable energy such as solar, wind or geothermal can come with a steep price tag and these technologies aren’t effective in every region. Encourage Employees To Commute via Low-Carbon Transport. To encourage the use of active transport (biking, walking, etc.) Allow Flexible Work-From-Home Options.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

On the environmental front, Johnson is expected to announce up to £1m each for areas eligible for the government's Towns Fund to enhance parks, high streets, and transport links, and he is set to re-affirm plans to plant trees on more than 75,000 acres a year by 2025.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 31, 2022

Further, CATL presently has eight factories under construction at a price tag of over $14 billion, underscoring the investments China is making toward securing continued market control. But there are other efforts underway in the U.S. Last week I spoke with the CEOs of two American companies working on lithium commercialization efforts.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

The report confirms that the fall mainly came in the transport sectors, with far fewer people driving, flying, or taking the train during various lockdowns the UK experienced. Aviation emissions were down a whopping 60 per cent in 2020, shipping emissions down 24 per cent, and road transport emissions fell 18 per cent.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

But while Neom’s $500 billion price tag prompts questions about whether it will go ahead exactly as planned, the hydrogen effort doesn’t depend on the megacity’s overall success. The hydrogen plant is part of that vision. There’s nothing I’ve ever seen or heard of this dimension or challenge,” Terium said. Carbon targets? Hydrogen targets!

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

But while Neom’s $500 billion price tag prompts questions about whether it will go ahead exactly as planned, the hydrogen effort doesn’t depend on the megacity’s overall success. The hydrogen plant is part of that vision. There’s nothing I’ve ever seen or heard of this dimension or challenge,” Terium said. Carbon targets? Hydrogen targets!

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

In an exclusive interview with BusinessGreen , he draws on a different analogy for the solar sector in the 2020s as the decarbonisation of transport, energy, and buildings gathers pace and corporate and institutional net zero targets abound. "We We are going to be a solar express over the next decade," he says.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2022

But climate and energy experts have been quick to slam the fuel duty cut as both environmentally and socially regressive, noting the move will benefit more affluent citizens who tend to own the most polluting vehicles and do nothing to alleviate the cost of living for poorer people dependent on public transport for travel.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

The project is designed to burn wood pellets sourced from well-managed forests to generate power and then capture emissions and transport them to geological storage sites under the North Sea, resulting in negative emissions.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

The majority of Denbury’s revenue comes from EOR, which involves injecting CO2 into the ground in order to extend the life of oil fields, and ~60% of the price tag likely covered the value of Denbury’s oil production rather than the CCS infrastructure. Denbury operates ~25% of all existing CO2 transport infrastructure in the US.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Bioenergy doesn’t just have a big environmental price tag – it’s an incredibly expensive technology that gets billions in government subsidies every year. The energy required to transport the pellets adds to their lifecycle emissions and uses up the very fossil fuels the pellets are supposed to replace.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

All of the firm's road electrification efforts are being developed under the umbrella of its 'Ultium' platform, which GM claims will be capable of delivering an EV that can drive up to 450 miles on a full charge, powering EVs of many shapes, sizes, and price tags. "At General Motors accelerates electric vision. That wasn't all either.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

All of the firm's road electrification efforts are being developed under the umbrella of its 'Ultium' platform, which GM claims will be capable of delivering an EV that can drive up to 450 miles on a full charge, powering EVs of many shapes, sizes and price tags. "At General Motors accelerates electric vision. That wasn't all either.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Previous unconfirmed reports have estimated a price tag for the Sizewell project of between £16-20bn. As such, £950m is to be spent on 'future proofing' electricity grid capacity along motorways and major A roads, in anticipation of the rollout of EV fast charge points across the key road transport arteries.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 23, 2020

Transportation is also the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., With the oil industry suffering what is probably its worst year in history , and the window of time for tackling the climate crisis narrowing, could this be the best and last chance the world has to push the accelerator on electrifying transportation?

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

They came to the realization that, “We haven’t reduced our greenhouse gas emissions enough because it turns out our transportation and our commuting to school actually has a much larger greenhouse gas emissions footprint than our energy use. I can give a concrete example. Status quo will lead us to our extinction. Bookmark the permalink.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2020

trillion infrastructure bill on July 1, aimed at cleaning up the number one source of carbon pollution in America — the transportation sector. Read time: 8 mins This week Congressional Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives put forward policies, including passing a $1.5

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The project was funded by Sergei Brin, one of the founders of Google, and came with a price tag of 250.000 euros for a single burger. One could simply fill the device, printer or machine with carbs, proteins and fats (derived from micro-organisms or insects) to print a delicious dish without any waste material or excess transport costs.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

In fact, it could transport more CO2 than the entire industrial sector emits in the U.S., in secretly recorded remarks made to an undercover representative of Greenpeace UK and reported by the UK’s Channel 4 News, adding that the Exxon lobbyist met with Manchin’s office weekly. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

Since then, the price tag for the project has since more than doubled and the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office had to step in to provide additional financing. Happy Monday! The US grid got its first new nuclear power in nearly seven years last week. Not a subscriber yet? 💼 Find or share roles on our job board here.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Taking action to get Britain's economy moving again by beginning construction on transport and green infrastructure projects shows immediate delivery. Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout. Planning reform is long overdue.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This article was adapted from Mobility Weekly, our free weekly newsletter. The proposal covers models with a price tag of $4,000 or less. What these places have in common: A transportation culture that already supports cycling, as well as narrow streets where it can be tough to negotiate larger vehicles.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Last Generation Activists at the Ministry of Transport advocate for one of their primary asks: the institution of a 100km speed limit on the Autobahn. Credit: Olaf Kosinsky ( CC BY-SA 3.0 DE ) via Wikimedia Commons Almost as soon as Last Generation began staging protests, in early 2022, Schläffler began describing them as extremists.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chair Jennifer Homendy concluded that the East Palestine, Ohio, rail disaster was “100% preventable.” 1 In a later presentation by the Transportation Technology Center Inc. The certainty of this statement raises the obvious question: Why did this happen? billion in pre-tax income.

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