Grist

JULY 27, 2023

In March, a CDC news release noted the seriousness of the problem, citing the pathogen’s resistance to traditional antifungal treatments and the alarming rate of its spread. Dr. Luis Ostrosky, a professor of infectious diseases at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, thinks C. auris is “kind of our nightmare scenario.”

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

Is it just us starting to get that back to school feeling? And with September fast approaching, that means it’s almost time for conference season - in particular, the annual whirlwind that is New York Climate Week! Pack your bag and prep your schedule with us so you’re ready to board the bus for NYCW. Let us know

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  ☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results. Send us a note !  Got other major headlines we missed?

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

We regularly announced big news at the event, from our in-state expansion to our members’ product launches. This year, we can’t wait for the second annual Climatetech Summit , and hope you’ll join us on Nov. 4 at Greentown HQ, Greentown Houston, or via livestream. There was plenty of news to announce at our 2019 DEMO Day!

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 24, 2022

Let me introduce you to just a few of the rockstar women entrepreneurs in our member and alumni community: SaLisa Berrien , CEO of COI Energy , works with businesses to reduce and monetize their buildings’ energy use. But there is some good news in the statistics too. percent of all venture capital funding in 2018 and 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

So it was a surprise to many PR sector observers when news broke in September that Shell, the world’s fifth largest oil company , had selected Havas — a global PR, media and communications conglomerate with 2022 revenues of 2.3 There was a lot of anger” among UK staff when the news broke, this second insider added. billion euros ($7.67

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 20, 2024

Executives at Texas summit claim clean-energy transition is failing and say world should ‘abandon the fantasy’ of fossil-fuel phaseout The bosses of the world’s leading oil and gas companies have poured scorn on efforts to move away from fossil fuels, complaining that a “visibly failing” transition to clean energy was being pushed forward at an “unrealistic (..)

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The event featured a speaking program with leaders from across climate technology, finance, policy, and justice, alongside a startup showcase that offered attendees the chance to network with our incredible Greentown Houston startups ! The Greentown Houston Climatetech Summit wrapped up with an impactful evening of networking.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

The Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en has also occupied their traditional territory, building permanent homes and spiritual buildings in a heavily forested area south of the small town of Houston. Both communities have been targeted by RCMP and private security forces, and the clashes intensified last year.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 18, 2023

So, what sets us apart from other UK geothermal developers is firstly, our oil and gas background. The intimate knowledge of wells really sets us apart from many others. It is this knowledge which helps us solve many of the problems associated with geothermal systems. Secondly, it is the scalability of our products.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. The picture was less rosy for new wind and heat pumps, both of which have suffered from high interest rates. US climate tech investment on the whole continues its hot streak, at an all-time record in 2023.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

They’re also lingering inside of us: in our blood and our excrement, primarily via the foods we eat and the water we drink. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via Getty Images “3M is a corporate giant that was built in no small part on the profits of these PFAS chemicals.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 12, 2021

Administrative Assistant | Fervo Energy | Houston or San Francisco. Join us and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, investors, and developers in making geothermal a key pillar of our climate-friendly energy future. . Coordinate hiring and onboarding of new employees . Essential Functions . About Fervo Energy .

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 8, 2024

  …We hope you didn’t miss our tax credit coverage ;) New year, new IRA guidance on hydrogen, domestic manufacturing, and SAFs. In other news, a major $11bn HVDC line between New Mexico and Arizona, new EV battery sourcing rules reduce eligible models, and BYD surpasses Tesla in EV sales. 

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Biden administration awards the first $1B+ for US DAC hubs and researchers replicate a nuclear fusion breakthrough. Transition , a London, UK-based venture capital firm, launched their new fund backing startups that work within planetary boundaries. Share new deals and announcements with us at hello@ctvc.co

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The US announced $161M in new investments, including $75M for African climate solutions from the US International Development Finance Corporation. 💨 Vaulted Deep , a Houston, TX-based biomass carbon removal and storage developer, raised $8M in Seed funding from Lowercarbon.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Credit: Julie Dermansky Air Products began making efforts to quell concerns after news of its CCS project under the lake spread. There is no amount of money that would make us understand this and accept it. Informational displays Air Products set up at a public meeting in Ponchatoula on October 17, 2022. We are fine the way we are.”

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

All the green business news from around the world this week. Germany, India, Sweden and the Netherlands would all drop three notches, with the US and Canada falling by two, and the UK by one, the analysis calculated. Over 60 countries at risk credit downgrades without emissions reductions, study warns.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A team of scientists from the University of Houston released a white paper about the potential of H2. The University of Houston recently released a white paper describing high potential for hydrogen cars in urban areas, referring to them as both competitive and friendly to the environment as a gasoline and diesel vehicle alternative.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

People living in a small, unincorporated community east of Houston are routinely breathing dangerous levels of benzene, a chemical linked to leukemia and other blood cancers. Joel (left) and Randy Lopez at Joel’s home in Houston, Texas. Channelview, 15 miles east of downtown Houston, has been a primary target for industrial expansion.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In news, clean energy developers continue to face the headwinds of rising interest rates - with especially strong gusts hitting offshore wind. GW-worth of planned offshore wind farms off the New Jersey coast. DC-based radioisotope power system developer, raised $8M in Grant funding from the US Department of Defense. 

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Top of her agenda: how to stop a Houston-based oil and gas company from building a $10 billion project to export liquefied natural gas on a nearby stretch of coast. At least 15 planned or existing LNG export or upstream gas projects globally have announced plans to add CCS, according to a tally by non-profit climate news service DeSmog.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In headlines this week, offshore wind developers are dealing with supply chain struggles and the intricacies of US power markets. Texas fires up VPPs and the US government puts $12B toward the EV transition. Share new deals and announcements with us at hello@ctvc.co In the News The U.S. Left in the dark.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Ford hit the brakes on construction of a new EV battery plant in Michigan last week as union workers escalated the strike against Detroit’s big three automakers. The US OEMs say they can't include planned battery production facilities in the labor contract negotiations, but the EV transition still looms large over the talks.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 23, 2023

More than 20 leading investors, corporates, and governments already use the platform including the US Department of Energy, BHP, and Galvanize Climate. The around-the-block line outside of Spirit Halloween reminded us that we’re getting shockingly (spookily?) Plus, the US funds $3.5B

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

We break down the latest announcements, from new ships and plants to consolidation plays. In other news, Hertz shifts gears on its EV strategy, Kerry steps down from his climate envoy post, and AI helps discover promising new battery materials.    Want more deals?    U.S. emissions decreased by 1.9%

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

She lives in Taft, which abuts the rail line that delivers trainloads of nurdles from the GCGV plant to the port of Houston. I didn’t want to let these big guys run all over us,” Moore said. The post As Alarm Over Plastic Grows, Saudis Ramp Up Production in the US appeared first on DeSmog. The companies relented.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

He asked Hayek for introductions to his “friends in Houston” — oil executives — for funding. In it he describes a type of person – elite – who I believe is not only the real customer of Atlas and many think tanks, but also our ideal customer, who benefits us and is served by us.”

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 16, 2023

  Of course, the news marches on. The Biden administration announced $7B for 7 hydrogen fuel hubs to lay the track for the US’s hydrogen 2030 goal. ⚡ Syzygy Plasmonics , a Houston, TX-based photocatalytic reactor developer for industrial applications, raised an undisclosed amount from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. 

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

At a news conference after the one-day UN Climate Ambition Summit on September 20, Tzeporah Berman, chair of the Fossil Fuel Nonproliferation Treaty Initiative , said: “The oil companies acknowledged this year that they will not meet their bogus net zero commitments. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.”

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The electric competition is head and shoulders above the legacy automakers and scrappy startups racing to turn EV strategies into production and deliveries, and the trends of Tesla in the US and BYD in China illustrate some of the larger geopolitical tensions in the EV supply chain. The US EV company experienced a 6.7%

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The worst is yet to come" writes Doctor @amyfaithho #TexasFreeze #TexasBlackOut [link] — Thomson Reuters Foundation News (@TRF_Stories) February 21, 2021. This year, the World Meteorological Organization warned that there’s a 40 percent likelihood that the next five years will see us breach 1.5 ” Outside of the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A draft synthesis of findings from that study indicated that carbon capture technology allows for “increased usage of existing US fossil fuel resources, protecting state and federal revenue sources and supporting the license to operate.” Here, Shell points out that “US CCUS has economic challenges.”

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

Very many of us were alarmed and held expectations about his tenure lower than the Mariana Trench,” recalled John Walke, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s clean air, climate, and clean energy program. Mark Black / Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via Getty Images. Vise said that now that the 2.4

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There’s good news on that front: President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress have managed to pass historic climate measures that are expected to reduce the country’s carbon footprint between 32 and 51 percent by 2035, putting the U.S. That’s bad news for the millions of people who have bought waterfront homes over the past few decades.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

According to the company’s website , Coastline has between 11-50 employees and is based in Houston, Texas. A report from Horn of Africa news site SomTribune alleged that money from this deal contributed towards the 2015 election campaign of state presidential candidate Abdi Awale Qeybdid, though he ultimately lost. Liberty Petroleum.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

  And we’re officially one month out from the official start of spring, and maybe even an early one as the groundhogs tell us. In January, Longpath secured a $189m conditional US Department of Energy loan guarantee. Not just the US. The dissociation follows anti-ESG political pressure in the US  in recent years.

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