Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and Chair of the Gates Foundation, walks to a morning session during the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 08, 2022 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kevin Diet...
Tag: Climate
The other reason why food prices are rising
The United Nations’ worst-case scenario calculation is that global food prices will rise by an additional 8.5% by 2027. More expensive fertilizers are contributed to those higher costs, with som...
Fewer Americans Worried How Climate Change Affects Them, Poll Suggests
Topline The percentage of Americans who are highly concerned about how climate change affects their lives has slipped since 2019, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Resear...
Coal Giants Are Making Mega Profits as Climate Crisis Grips the World
(Bloomberg) — The globe is in the grips of a climate crisis as temperatures soar and rivers run dry, and yet it’s never been a better time to make money by digging up coal. Most Read from Bloomb...
House passes Inflation Reduction Act: What Democrats’ bill does for climate, drug prices and taxes
Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act passed the House of Representatives in a 220-207 vote on Friday after clearing the Senate last weekend, and with it, some big changes could be coming to key sectors ...
House Passes Democrats’ Ambitious $430 Billion Climate And Health Bill
Topline The House of Representatives voted 220-207 to approve the $437 billion Inflation Reduction Act on Friday after months of torturous negotiations among Senate Democrats that finally resulted in ...
We’ll have to burn additional coal in the short term, CFO of RWE says
An excavator photographed at a lignite mine operated by RWE on April 8, 2022. RWE says it wants to be carbon neutral by 2040. Alex Kraus | Bloomberg | Getty Images The chief financial officer of Germa...
Rivian (RIVN) earnings Q2 2022
Rivian electric pickup trucks sit in a parking lot at a Rivian service center on May 09, 2022 in South San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Electric vehicle maker Rivian Automoti...
Corporations Pay More, Middle Class Pays Less Under Dem Climate Bill: Analysis
The Inflation Reduction Act, which is expected to pass the House later this week before heading to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law, will increase taxes on U.S. corporations while redu...
The New Corporate Minimum Tax In Congress’ Climate Legislation Is A Bad Idea
WASHINGTON, DC – Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) leaves the Senate Chamber with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) … [+] following a vote in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2...
Plug Power Misses Estimates. But Analysts Lift Price Targets on Climate Bill Catalysts.
Text size Photo courtesy of Plug Power Plug Power shares rose sharply Wednesday despite the fuel-cell company reporting second-quarter revenue that missed estimates. Analysts said they expect Plug Pow...
Inflation Reduction Act EV tax credits could hurt sales
Tesla cars charge next to a traditional Texaco gas station on July 17, 2022 in Nephi, Utah. With more electric cars on the road, lack of charging infrastructure is becoming more of a problem for EV ow...
Ford CEO doesn’t expect electric vehicle battery costs to drop soon
Ford CEO Jim Farley poses with the Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck in Dearborn, Michigan, May 19, 2021. Rebecca Cook | Reuters WAYNE, Mich. – Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley does not expect the costs of r...
Nikola CEO Mark Russell to retire at the end of the year
Mark Russell, chief executive officer of Nikola Corp., left, during a media briefing at the unveiling of the Iveco-Nikola electric truck plant in Ulm, Germany, on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. Andreas Gr...
Over Half Of Infectious Diseases Could Be Worsened By Climate Change, Study Finds
Topline Climate hazards such as warming, flooding, heat waves and drought have at times aggravated 58% of infectious diseases affecting humans, according to a review of scientific studies published in...
Ford increasing price of electric F-150 Lightning
Ford F-150 Lightning trucks manufactured at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn Michigan. Courtesy: Ford Motor Co. DETROIT – Ford Motor on Tuesday said it is increasing the starting prices o...
Japanese shipping giant to take part in tidal power project
Buildings in Singapore at dusk. Asia is already home to a number of tidal power projects. Guvendemir | E+ | Getty Images Japanese shipping giant Nippon Yusen Kaisha is to take part in a tidal power pr...
Landmark Climate Bill Could Help Boost Struggling Nuclear Plants—Here’s Why
Topline Nuclear plants could see their bottom lines improve thanks to a new tax credit in the massive climate, health care and deficit reduction package passed by the Senate this weekend—a potential l...
Climate change is making some homes too costly to insure
Firefighters pull up to a burning house during the Kincade fire in Healdsburg, California, on Oct. 27, 2019. Josh Edelson | Afp | Getty Images As climate change threatens the U.S. with more natural di...
The US senate just passed a massive $430 billion bill to fight climate change, lower drug costs — and these stocks are buzzing because of it
The US senate just passed a massive $430 billion bill to fight climate change, lower drug costs — and these stocks are buzzing because of it The clean energy sector has had a choppy ride over the past...
Senate passes historic climate bill — Here are 2 stocks that could benefit
After an all-night voting session, the US Senate passed the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act. The bill brings up many questions – not least of which is, will a government spending bill actually redu...
Climate Change Threatens Panama Canal And Global Maritime Trade
A crew member moors the La Mancha Knutsen LNG tanker at a port on the Panama Canal in Panama City, … [+] Panama, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. The Panama Canal is seeing signs of a rebound in glob...
This New Talent Marketplace Aims To Better Connect Workers With Climate Careers
A group of colleagues sit at a meeting table in a modern office, discussing renewable energy … [+] solutions. A bike leans against one of the walls. getty The Covid-19 pandemic and the related f...
Senate Approves $430 Billion Climate And Healthcare Bill
Topline Senate Democrats voted Sunday to pass the landmark Inflation Reduction Act, approving the landmark $430 billion climate, tax and healthcare bill after months of negotiations that ended in a ma...
Senate Passes Climate Bill. The Rush to Renewable Energy Is On.
The climate and tax package passed by the Senate on Sunday will unlock around $400 billion in funding for clean energy and accelerate a historic shift in how the world is powered. Along with a paralle...
Is There Science Behind Why Teens Wear Hoodies In Summer Heat?
If you are the parent of a teenager (or perhaps a pre-teen) then you probably understand what is forthcoming in this essay. I have a fifteen-year-old son who wears long-sleeved hoodies in the middle o...
Goldman doesn’t see nuclear as a transformational tech for the future
A nuclear power plant photographed in Germany, on August 4, 2022. Discussions about nuclear’s role in Europe’s biggest economy have been thrown into sharp relief following Russia’s u...
China suspends climate and military ties with US
Beijing announced on August 5 that it would halt cooperation with the US in climate and military-related areas due to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. Furthermore, China decided to san...
Is Portugal Changing Its Crypto-Friendly Climate?
5 hours ago | 2 mins read Exchange News Major banks in Portugal closed the crypto exchange, CriptoLoja’s account. The Portugal government recently announced its plans to tax crypto income. According t...
Reviewing The U.S. Climate Agreement – A $369 Billion Supercharge That The Clean Tech Industry Needs
Landscape with solar park and wind turbines in the background. Adobe Stock Last week, as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, U.S. senators triumphantly announced a $369 billion commitment to ...