Martin Leonhard of the East Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP) operates snow blower putting a new snow floor for the winter-storage weather port tent at EastGRIP camp on August 9, 2022. EastGRIP is...
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Ford boosts production of electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck
Corey Williams, plant manager at Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant and Rouge electric vehicle center, outlines the automaker’s production plans for the F-150 Lightning electric pickup during a f...
GM, Stellantis rank worst for fuel efficiency, even amid EV push
GMC vehicles sit on display at the Sterling McCall Buick GMC dealership on February 02, 2022 in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images DETROIT – General Motors may be transitioning to an all-elec...
Europe’s power crisis has ‘very little to do with Putin’: CEO
This image, from Sept, 2022, shows a liquefied natural gas tanker arriving at a port in the Netherlands. Siese Veenstra | AFP | Getty Images The power crisis gripping Europe has little to do with Vlad...
Tesla Mega packs, giant hydrogen tank: Panasonic’s new climate factory
As a bullet train speeds by in the background, a liquid hydrogen tank towers over solar panels and hydrogen fuel cells at Panasonic’s Kusatsu plant in Japan. Combined with a Tesla Megapack stora...
A home energy upgrade that’s becoming a climate and financial winner
Heat pumps are becoming more popular for residential housing with energy prices increasing and the need to reduce use of fossil fuel heating systems. Andrew Aitchison | In Pictures | Getty Images Thin...
Electric school buses give kids a cleaner, but costlier, ride
BEVERLY, Mass. — It’s a gray November morning, and we’re on board a long, yellow school bus. The bus bounces over this Boston suburb’s patched streets in a way that would be familiar...
Charles Hoskinson Says India’s Anti-Crypto Regulatory Environment Is Preventing Cardano’s Entry ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Charles Hoskinson isn’t interested in Cardano pushing into the Indian market until the south Asian country drops its anti-crypto policies for progres...
Some Simple Ways To Improve Regulation And Boost Economic Growth
Stressed out African American female freelancer working from home using her laptop and encountering … [+] some problems concerning her business getty Nearly halfway through his first term, Presi...
Saving Your Pocket and the Environment with Myntist
What do you tend to do with your old items? Your clothes that no longer fit. The old electronics that you’ve replaced. Your old books. Many of us take the simple route and throw them away without a ca...
UK’s approval of new coal mine criticized as ‘deeply damaging mistake’
This image, taken in March 2021, shows the site where the new facility would be developed. Christopher Furlong | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — Plans for a deep coal mine in the northwest o...
California offshore wind auction surpasses $757 million in bids
Offshore wind farm. davee hughes uk | Moment | Getty Images The Biden administration on Wednesday announced more than $757 million in winning bids for its auction of offshore wind development rights i...
Cathie Wood says the better historical parallel for the current high inflation environment is World War I, not the 1970s
Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood says investors are looking at the wrong historical period in making comparisons with the current high inflation environment. “If you go back to the 19-teens, then the period...
Energy partnership between U.S., Britain aims to ramp up LNG supplies
Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden photographed on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Indonesia on Nov. 16, 2022. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K. and U.S. are forming a new energy partnership ...
How the U.S. became a global corn superpower
The United States has just about 90 million planted acres of corn, and there’s a reason people refer to the crop as yellow gold. In 2021, U.S. corn was worth over $86 billion, according to calcu...
Renewables to be main source of electricity generation by 2025: IEA
Wind turbines in the Netherlands. A report from the International Energy Agency “expects renewables to become the primary energy source for electricity generation globally in the next three year...
Jamie Dimon says Ukraine war shows we still need cheap, secure energy from oil and gas
Dimon said in June that he was preparing the bank for an economic “hurricane” caused by the Federal Reserve and Russia’s war in Ukraine. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images One key l...
ESOPs Offer Relief in Today’s Constrained Financing Environment
In my 30 years as an investment banker to private and family-owned businesses, I have never seen the borrowing climate for deals change so sharply as it did in 2022. Financing for M&A and private ...
Los Angeles bans oil and gas drilling within city limits
An oil pumpjack operates in the Inglewood Oil Field on January 28, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The Los Angeles City Council has voted to ban new oil and gas drilling and...
Toyota secures funding to develop hydrogen fuel cell version of Hilux
A Toyota logo displayed on a vehicle in Poland. The Japanese automotive giant started working on the development of fuel cell vehicles back in 1992. Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty Images LONDON — A co...
Rolls-Royce uses green hydrogen in jet engine test
LONDON — Plans to reduce the significant environmental effects of aviation took a step forward this week after Rolls-Royce and easyJet said they had carried out the ground test of a jet engine that us...
Tesla’s dominance of EVs is eroding as cheaper cars hit the market
Tesla is still the top-selling electric vehicle brand in the U.S., but its dominance is eroding as rivals offer a growing number of more affordable models, according to a report Tuesday by S&P Glo...
Energy markets facing ‘one or two years of extreme volatility’: CEO
This image, from March 2022, shows wind turbines and gas storage facilities in Germany. Europe’s energy markets have experienced turbulence in recent months. Jan Woitas | Picture Alliance | Gett...
U.S. warns California cities possible water cuts in fourth dry year
Houseboats on Lake Oroville during a drought in Oroville, California, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal water managers on Monday warned California ci...
Digital Asset Macro Environment: Q3’22 Update
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Renault plans to harness geothermal energy and help heat plant
A Renault logo photographed in Bavaria, Germany. The French automotive giant says it’s targeting carbon neutrality in Europe by 2040 and globally by 2050. Igor Golovniov/Sopa Images | Lightrocke...
After years as nuclear powerhouse, France makes play in offshore wind
This image, from Sept. 2022, shows French President Emmanuel Macron speaking with workers on board a boat during a visit to the Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm. Stephane Mahe | AFP | Getty Images A f...
Offshore floating desalination plant aims to produce drinking water from the ocean
Ocean Oasis’ Gaia system has been designed to use wave power to desalinate water. Ocean Oasis Plans to use marine energy to desalinate water received a further boost this week, after a Norwegian...
How drought cost America’s cotton industry billions
Cotton farmers in Texas, where about 40% of the U.S. crop is produced, are facing a severe drought that is costing the industry billions. A lack of rain and extreme heat is forcing growers in the stat...
Buy Zillow stock now to profit from ‘brighter environment’ next year, UBS says
Investors should buy Zillow Group Inc. now, UBS says, even if they have to wait a year before the U.S. housing market starts improving. Analyst Lloyd Walmsley initiated research coverage of the online...