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Peers sought to build urban resilience platform

Envirotec Magazine

Nature-based urban resilience infrastructure in Milan, Italy. A new peer-to-peer platform is helping municipalities and water utilities find reliable innovative solutions to their infrastructure resilience challenges, according to the firm behind it, Isle Utilities. Technology pilots. Best practice.

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FedEx pledges to be carbon neutral by 2040

GreenBiz

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. Charging infrastructure will be a major hurdle, and opportunity, for a global logistics operator such as FedEx. Courtesy of FedEx.

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Indigenous Youth Rally Calls on Biden to Cancel Line 3 and Dakota Access Pipelines

DeSmogBlog

trillion infrastructure package, which would include enormous investments in renewable energy, electric vehicles, and public transit, along with roads, bridges, and water infrastructure. Tags: Enbridge Line 3 pipeline Dakota Access Pipeline Indigenous Environmental Network Biden administration

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EV charging beyond the grid: Forecasts from a new report

Envirotec Magazine

The problem is even more acute for locations where there is no existing grid infrastructure. The question then arises: how will EVs be charged when grid infrastructure is lacking or simply non-existent? Constructing new cabling and transformers is not only expensive but incredibly time-consuming.

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Defying Climate Goals, New York Approves Rate Hike to Pay for New Natural Gas Infrastructure

DeSmogBlog

billion over the next three years to help Consolidated Edison, or Con Ed, pay for new natural gas pipelines and infrastructure. To meet those goals, any new gas infrastructure constructed now and in the future would have to be retired well before the end of its useful life, becoming stranded assets.

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Why are hydrogen fuel cells so expensive?

Hydrogen Fuel News

  That said, the production of green H2 using electrolyzers does require rare metals such as platinum and iridium that come with a high price tag.  That said, until an H2 production and refueling infrastructure is established, it will be very challenging to achieve those mainstream production levels.

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State Backers of Anti-Protest Bills Received Campaign Funding from Oil and Gas Industry, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

The major pipelines studied in the report disproportionately impact historically disenfranchised communities who, in turn find themselves potentially targeted by the protest criminalization measures, often framed as efforts to protect “critical infrastructure,” the report details.