Oil pumpjacks operate in the Inglewood Oil Field on January 28, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The Biden administration on Monday announced it will send $1.15 billion to st...
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Why Readily Available Low-Cost Natural Gas Is Our Centerpiece Strategy To Fight Climate Change
DASHAVA, UKRAINE – SEPTEMBER 18: Hand wheels are seen fixed to valves at the Dashava natural gas … [+] facility on September 18, 2014 in Dashava, Ukraine. The Dashava facility, which is bo...
Electric vehicle fires are rare, but hard to fight — here’s why
Electric vehicles provide a path to better air quality, reduced fuel costs and comprise a growing new category for automakers. But with the transition to electric transportation comes a new challenge:...
One of planet’s largest electrolyzers up and running
Animaflora | iStock | Getty Images A 20 megawatt hydrogen electrolyzer described as “one of the world’s largest” has begun operations, energy major Shell said Friday. Located in Zhan...
What really happens to them?
Sending back an online order has never been easier. It’s often free for the customer, with some retailers even allowing customers to keep the item while offering a full refund. Amazon returns ca...
California in transformational moment to fight climate change
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday said the state’s in a “transformational moment” to shift away from fossil fuels, as climate change continues to fuel devastating wildfire...
Tesla stock drops 8% as investors digest new vehicle delays
Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils the Cybertruck at the TeslaDesign Studio in Hawthorne, Calif. The cracked window glass occurred during a demonstration on the strength of the glass. Robert Hanashiro | USA ...
EV manufacturing jumps in UK, overall production sinks to 65-year low
A Nissan Leaf on the forecourt of a dealership in Lincoln, U.K. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Car production in the U.K. slumped by 6.7% to just 859,575 units in 2021, new figures publish...
US wave energy projects get funding boost as plans for open-water testing take shape
lindsay_imagery | E+ | Getty Images The U.S. Department of Energy has announced $25 million in funding for eight projects focused on wave energy technologies. The DOE said the projects will be based o...
Tesla (TSLA) earnings Q4 2021
Elon Musk, Founder and Chief Engineer of SpaceX, speaks during the Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, DC, United States on March 9, 2020. Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Tesla repor...
Los Angeles bans new oil and gas wells, will phase out old ones
A view of the Marathon Petroleum Corp’s Los Angeles Refinery in Carson, California, April 25, 2020. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday voted to ban new oil...
Wind energy faces tough 2022 as supply chain issues persist: Vestas
Vestas wind turbines photographed in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on 19 September, 2021. Horst Galuschka | picture alliance | Getty Images The wind energy sector faces a rocky road ahead due to a ...
Why I Won’t Watch That Video ‘Debunking’ Climate Change
It happens pretty frequently. I get tagged on social media by someone pointing out a You Tube video that I should watch (thank goodness for Mute features). It is usually some conspiracy theory or pseu...
Walmart makes an investment in vertical farming start-up Plenty
Plenty uses vertical farming to grow a high volume of leafy greens year-round. It plans to use the technology to grow other crops, including strawberries and tomatoes. Photo: Spencer Lowell for Plenty...
Plans for floating wind energy projects off U.K.’s coastline get funding boost
This image, from 2018, shows a floating wind turbine in waters off the coast of France. SEBASTIEN SALOM GOMIS | AFP | Getty Images Eleven projects centered around floating wind technology are a step c...
McKinsey calculates capital spending required to reach net-zero by 2050
A wind farm shares space with corn fields in Latimer, Iowa, U.S. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters As the world grapples with a worsening climate change crisis, governments and companies are pledging to achiev...
Change is coming to business
From high-profile figures such as Greta Thunberg to events like the COP26 summit, discussions about sustainability, the environment and climate change are perhaps more visible than ever before. As the...
Lab-grown meat start-ups hope to make strides in 2022
Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of cultivated meat start-up Eat Just, has a vision: He imagines a day when meat grown in a lab is available everywhere from Michelin-star restaurants to street vendors...
Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy plans $3.9 billion wind, solar project
This image from 2016 shows a wind turbine on property used by MidAmerican Energy’s Eclipse Wind Farm in Adair, Iowa. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images A subsidiary of Warren Buffett’...
The dust has settled on COP26. Now the hard work begins
The COP26 climate summit, held in the Scottish city of Glasgow last year, made headlines around the world. After days of painstaking and at times fraught negotiations, countries agreed upon a deal whi...
Judge blasts PG&E as ‘continuing menace’ over wildfires
People take part in an event to hand-deliver 100,000 public comments from Californians throughout the state calling on Governor Newsom to reject proposals that penalize consumers for putting solar pan...
No fireworks at House’s Bitcoin mining hearing, but pending climate bills could home in on crypto
In a much-anticipated hearing earlier today, Congress heard testimony on cryptocurrency mining. Despite standing criticisms of environmental impacts and energy usage, the hearing saw remarkably little...
Scotland’s offshore wind sector $951m boost after leasing round
Offshore wind turbines in waters near Aberdeen, Scotland. Gannet77 | E+ | Getty Images The Scottish offshore wind sector received a boost this week after a program to lease areas of Scotland’s s...
Bill Gates, John Kerry call for ‘urgent’ private sector climate action
Bill Gates speaks during the Global Investment Summit at the Science Museum on October 19, 2021 in London, England. Leon Neal | Getty Images News | Getty Images Bill Gates has stressed the urgent need...
Biden administration announces plan to confront worsening wildfires
US President Joe Biden (C) and First Lady Jill Biden (R) tour a neighborhood destroyed by the Marshall Fire alongside Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle (L) in Louisville, Colorado, January 7, 2022. Sau...
Biden Invests $14 Billion In U.S. Ports And Waterways In Bid To Combat Climate Change And Ease Supply Chain Constraints—Here’s Where The Funds Will Go
Topline The White House on Tuesday sent $14 billion in freshly appropriated funds—stemming largely from the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan signed into law in November—to fund more than 5...
Could Living Wages Help Solve Fashion’s Climate Crisis? New Research Says Yes
TOPSHOT – A demonstrator holds a banner as models present creations by Louis Vuitton during Paris … [+] Fashion Week at the Louvre in Paris, on October 5, 2021. (Photo by Christophe ARCHAM...
To Hit Climate Targets London Mayor Mulls Full-Fat Road Pricing
Signs for the central London Congestion Charging Zone (CCZ) and Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) stand … [+] on Upper Brook Street in London, England. (Photo by David Cliff/NurPhoto via Getty Imag...
Oxfam on Covid inequality, tax rich to pay for vaccines, protect climate
A pedestrian wearing a face mask delivers food to a homeless person sleeping in the entrance of a shop, closed due to coronavirus restrictions, in central London on December 23, 2020. Tolga Akmen | AF...
Volcanic Eruptions Can Cool The Climate, But Hunga-Tonga Won’t
June 1991: a giant mushroom cloud of steam and ash exploding out of Mount Pinatubo volcano during … [+] its eruption. AFP via Getty Images The eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai vol...