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Governor Hochul’s Opportunity to Help New York Farmers

NRDC onEarth

Nation-leading bill pending before the Governor would boost municipal purchasing of local, healthier, and more sustainably produced food.

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Trial begins with heavy-duty liquid hydrogen truck

Envirotec Magazine

Vinyl producer INEOS Inovyn has begun customer trials with “Europe’s first heavy-duty liquid hydrogen truck” “Hydrogen is a game-changing energy solution that will transform truck transportation and help us achieve a zero-emission future,” said Wouter Bleukx, Business Director Hydrogen at INEOS Inovyn. “As both a major producer and consumer of low-carbon hydrogen, INEOS is in a unique position to help drive this change.

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Innovate or Stagnate: Cleaning Up the Manufacturing Sector

CleanTech Group

It’s Time to Clean Up Industrial cleaning of manufacturing and process equipment typically employs the use of hydrocarbon solvents, caustic solutions and heated. The post Innovate or Stagnate: Cleaning Up the Manufacturing Sector appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Climate hero or villain? Fossil fuel frenzy challenges Norway’s green image

The Guardian: Energy

As it rapidly adopts clean technologies while drilling furiously for oil and gas, the Nordic nation is a paradox The average Norwegian, better known for loving nature than destroying the planet, is more likely than anyone else to drive to work in an electric car and warm their home with a heat pump. When they turn on the kettle in the morning or charge their phone at night, Norwegians plug into an electricity grid that runs almost entirely on renewables.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Court of Appeals Rejects Chemours’s Attempt to Void EPA Health Advisory for GenX in Drinking Water

NRDC onEarth

WASHINGTON, DC – The Third Circuit Court of Appeals today rejected arguments by Chemours Company that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acted unlawfully when it issued a health advisory about the risks of exposure to the PFAS forever chemical.

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New Environment Secretary visits wetlands tackling river pollution

Envirotec Magazine

The Hogsmill River as it joins the River Thames at Kingston (image credit: Motmit , CC BY-SA 3.0 license). On 18 July The Rivers Trust and South East Rivers Trust welcomed the new Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Steve Reed MP to Chamber Mead Wetlands, a demonstration of how nature-based solutions can be improve river health.

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Giant Canberra battery gets approval to help wean national capital off fossil gas

Renew Economy

A giant battery project that will help get the national capital get off gas and reach its net zero target has won development approval. The post Giant Canberra battery gets approval to help wean national capital off fossil gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Clean Transportation: Another Form of Indigenous Resistance to Big Oil

NRDC onEarth

A deep dive into tribal clean transportation with the executive director of Electric Nation, Bob Blake.

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Developing the tools to restore UK seagrass

Envirotec Magazine

A new Welsh nursery is at the forefront of a mission to restore the UK’s lost seagrass meadows, says the group behind it. The project aims to equip organisations and communities with the tools to bring back biodiversity and support CO2 removal from the atmosphere by restoring these habitats. As much as 92% of the UK’s seagrass meadows has been lost since 1936.

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California eyes central procurement of 2GW of LDES to help scale novel technologies

Energy Storage News

The CPUC has proposed the procurement of over 10GW of new energy resources, including 1GW of multi-day long-duration energy storage (LDES) and another 1GW of 12-hour-plus LDES.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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Forget nuclear: 5B says plunging price of PV means giga-scale solar farms the future for old coal plants

Renew Economy

Australian solar innovator says the plunging price of PV technology puts its home grown technology front and centre in Australia's transition to renewables. The post Forget nuclear: 5B says plunging price of PV means giga-scale solar farms the future for old coal plants appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How to Make a Wildfire Evacuation Plan

NRDC onEarth

Fires can be wild and unpredictable—don’t let your reaction to them be the same.

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Compostable packaging often isn’t the easy win it’s marketed as

Envirotec Magazine

The Closed Loop label A new multi-trial study appears to find significant improvements in the disposal of certified compostable packaging when people are given clear instructions and consistent labelling. Independent environmental and behaviour change expert Hubbub – which completed the study with the University of Sheffield – warns that compostable packaging is not a silver bullet and should only be used in specific circumstances.

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Green economy could generate 3.3m jobs across Africa by 2030 – report

The Guardian: Energy

Policymakers and funders are being urged to invest in training a workforce to serve the industries of the future A greener economy could bring millions of jobs to some of the largest countries in Africa, according to a new report. Research by the development agency FSD Africa and the impact advisory firm Shortlist predicts that 3.3 million jobs could be generated across the continent by 2030.

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Learnings from the Texas grid, and why it’s been able to add so much solar and battery storage

Renew Economy

Texas has around the same population as Australia and double the grid consumption. And it's been able to add renewables and storage at a rate Australia would envy. The post Learnings from the Texas grid, and why it’s been able to add so much solar and battery storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hidden Hazards: Oversight Voids in Gas Gathering Lines

NRDC onEarth

PHMSA lacks complete information on gathering line routes and operating status. Recent accidents confirm these pipelines pose unknown hazards beneath our feet.

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Key Scottish sectors warned of doubling of drought events by 2050

Envirotec Magazine

Scottish river in low flow (image credit: Paul Glendell). New research appears to find that the number of water scarcity events in Scotland could double by 2050, presenting a need for key industries to do more to adapt. The research, led by The James Hutton Institute, focused on how climate change is impacting water availability for the farming and whisky sectors, which could be left increasingly high and dry.

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The US nuclear industry is stuck. Can this startup get it rolling again?

Canary Media

The Nuclear Company , a venture capital–funded project-development firm, came out of stealth last week and announced eye-raising plans: It aims to deploy a 6-gigawatt nuclear-fission reactor fleet by the mid-2030s. That 6 gigawatts would represent more nuclear-generating capacity than the U.S.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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“I’m not interested in the fanatics:” Dutton responds to science academy’s report on nuclear SMRs

Renew Economy

Dutton dismissed report on nuclear SMR by the highly respected Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, saying he is not interested in the views of "fanatics." The post “I’m not interested in the fanatics:” Dutton responds to science academy’s report on nuclear SMRs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The great pylon pile-on: can councils’ opposition scupper Labour’s ‘clean power’ revolution?

The Guardian: Energy

The energy secretary’s plans to install thousands of pylons in unspoiled rural areas is facing a huge backlash The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has been warned he faces battlegrounds across the country over plans to install thousands of pylons in unspoilt rural areas to deliver a “clean power” revolution. Council leaders and communities oppose proposals for a vast new network of pylons across large parts of several counties, including Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suff

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Oxygen-without-light discovery challenges deep ocean preconceptions

Envirotec Magazine

“The discovery that a process associated with polymetallic nodules is producing oxygen, in an area targeted by the deep-sea mining industry, provides further support on the urgent need for a moratorium,” said the DSCC. Scientists appear to have found that oxygen is being produced in the deep sea through a process associated with polymetallic nodules on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean, in the complete absence of sunlight.

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Puerto Rico could soon build its biggest solar and grid battery plants

Canary Media

Utility-scale solar in Puerto Rico has just received a $861 million boost from the federal government. On Thursday, the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office announced a conditional commitment to finance new solar and battery storage facilities on the southern coast of the island.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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China installs more than 100GW of solar in first half of 2024

Renew Economy

Government data shows China has already installed more than 100GW of new solar capacity this year, bringing the total to more than 700GW. The post China installs more than 100GW of solar in first half of 2024 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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AFC Energy signs supply deal with Germany’s Zollner Elektronik to Scale Manufacture of S Series Fuel Cell Modules

FuelCellsWorks

AFC Energy signs supply deal with Germany’s Zollner Elektronik to Scale Manufacture of S Series Fuel Cell Modules.

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Technology selected for upgrade of mixed containers MRF in Perth

Envirotec Magazine

Wyllie Recycling Ltd, a leading family-owned recycling businesses in Scotland, has invested in three of TOMRA’s AUTOSORT optical sorters as part of a £3 million upgrade at the company’s mixed containers MRF in Perth. Designed specifically for local authority contracts, 20,000 tonnes of mixed containers are processed annually at the MRF, specifically aluminium and steel cans, plastic bottles and pots, tubs and trays.

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Keeping US carbon cuts on track will hinge on the upcoming election

Canary Media

The U.S. still has a chance to cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to meet its 2030 climate commitments. But that chance rests on keeping key clean energy incentives and climate regulations in place — something that will itself depend on which party wins control of the federal government in November.

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Origin to double size of Eraring battery to soak up solar next to country’s biggest coal generator

Renew Economy

Origin to double size of Eraring battery, adding a more than four-hour second stage to help soak up solar at the site of Australia's largest coal generator. The post Origin to double size of Eraring battery to soak up solar next to country’s biggest coal generator appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hydrogen Could Still Fuel the Future of the Combustion Engine

FuelCellsWorks

The way cars are powered isn’t a done deal yet – the mix of methods could be more interesting than ever before. Alpine’s exhibition of its Alpenglow prototype at the.

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Building better: Making the transition from operational carbon to embodied carbon measurement

Envirotec Magazine

When thinking about the construction sector and emissions, the first thing that may spring to mind is the CO2 created when heating, cooling and lighting the structure. However, is this the only and most important aspect to explore? Does it give the full picture of a building’s carbon footprint? Indoor air quality expert Volution offers a more expansive appreciation of the topic.

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California aims for 7.6GW of offshore wind by 2035

Canary Media

If California wants to meet its goal of building gigawatts of floating wind turbines off its coast in the coming decades, the state needs to go big or go home.

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Costly gas, coal outages and generator bidding lead to big jump in electricity prices in June quarter

Renew Economy

Surge in wholesale electricity prices in June quarter highlights the problem of digging in with ageing coal plants and fossil gas generation. The post Costly gas, coal outages and generator bidding lead to big jump in electricity prices in June quarter appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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CTE to Lead 1,000-Bus Initiative as DOE Signs $12.6 Billion Agreement for California’s Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub Project

FuelCellsWorks

Berkeley, CA – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the signing of a landmark $12.6 billion agreement, including up to $1.2 billion from the DOE and $11.4 billion in.

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