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With Coal’s Decline, Pennsylvania Communities Watch the Rise of Natural Gas-fueled Plastics

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins For Beaver County, just northwest of Pittsburgh, the construction of Royal Dutch Shell’s towering new plastics factory overshadows the closure of the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant, the state’s largest coal power station, located along the same stretch of Ohio River in western Pennsylvania. .

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How Dominion Energy Plans to Launch an Offshore Wind Empire

GreenTechMedia

With two turbines, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot is tiny; and with a price tag of $300 million, it’s very expensive for a generation facility of its size. A Siemens Gamesa factory in Virginia? Four years after the Block Island project first put wind turbines in American waters, the second U.S. offshore wind market.

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New Concerns Raised by Opponents Delay Wanhua’s $1.25 Billion Plastic Complex in Louisiana

DeSmogBlog

billion plastics factory on the banks of the Mississippi River. Tags: cancer alley Louisiana Pastor Harry Joseph St. James, is one of the plaintiffs appealing the parish council’s permit granted May 20 to Wanhua Chemical, which is planning to build a $1.25

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A tale of two gigafactories…

Terra Infirma

As the name suggests, an EV battery gigafactory is truly colossal with a price tag to match – we’re talking billions rather than millions. The business plan seemed to be “Demand for EV batteries will soon be huge, so we will build a huge factory to make them. Give us money, lots of it.”

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MIT Study Lays Bare Why Nuclear Costs Keep Rising

GreenTechMedia

Labor productivity in recent plants, for example, is up to 13 times lower than industry expectations, which goes a long way to explaining why the price tag for the Vogtle project in Georgia has more than doubled, rising to around $25 billion. This mismatch between expectation and reality has dogged the nuclear industry in several markets.

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PaperTale app shows the ethics and sustainability of clothing with a simple scan

AGreenLiving

Knowing how toxic the textile industry is to the planet and workers, he created a smart tag that allows tracking of the product through every stage of material sourcing, manufacturing and transport.

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Lucid Air unveiled – new electric luxury sedan to be delivered in spring 2021

Charged

Production at Lucid’s factory in Casa Grande, Arizona, will start “in the coming months.” Later in 2021, Lucid will deliver the Air Grand Touring version, with 800 hp of power and a $139,000 price tag; and the 620 hp Air Touring model, at $95,000. The Lucid Air will be available initially in North America.