"The good news is a broad bipartisan consensus exists in Congress to make significant investments in infrastructure. The problem is not money. The problem is regulation and focus (calling something infrastructure doesn’t make it infrastructure)."
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Are The Risks Of Nuclear Energy Overblown?
"All of these stories are worrying--but they are not the full picture. But the reality is that nuclear energy is much, much safer than many of us are led to believe. In fact, a 2013 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology found that up to that point, nuclear energy had actually saved an estimated 2 million lives since 1971."
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So-Called Infrastructure Plan Would Federalize California’s Climate Mandates
"Within President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan is $174 billion that would both extend the electric vehicle tax credit as well as replace government cars with electric ones. To put this level of waste into perspective: $174 billion is more than practically every state budget."
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To ‘Build Back Better,’ We Need to Modernize Electricity Markets to Spur Cleaner Energy
"American businesses and energy consumers are demanding a new paradigm — one that encourages both economic competitiveness and clean energy. As we look toward the “Roaring ’20s” and move toward a clean energy future, now is the time to update our electricity markets, unleash technological advancements and promote job growth."
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Regenerative Farming: Fashionably Late, but Here to Stay
Cotton is a staple product in shirts and jeans, but the carbon emissions released from large agricultural fields are a big contributor to climate change. Regenerative farming offers a solution.
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Solar Design Startup Aurora Reaches Unicorn Status After $250 Million Funding Round
"Using features such as automated photovoltaic system design, lidar-based shade analysis and AI-assisted 3-D modeling, a solar installer using the Aurora software can save money as well as the time normally required to travel to the location of the installation, capturing its sunlight exposure and processing the results, ahead of providing a customer with a quote."
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Apple and the End of the Car as We Know It
"The company also recently approached auto makers including Hyundai about a potential manufacturing partnership, then saw talks fizzle. It’s just as likely Apple is, as usual, experimenting until or unless it hits on something it thinks it can do better than anyone else."
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Green Finance Goes Mainstream, Lining Up Trillions Behind Global Energy Transition
"After years of intermittent excitement followed by fizzled expectations, green finance is now looking less like the niche interest of socially conscious investors and more like a sustainable gold rush. Driven by surging valuations for electric-vehicle companies such as Tesla Inc. and startup battery producers, banks and investors are betting the transition from fossil fuels is here to stay, and that they can make money by getting behind it, further entrenching the shift."
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Big Tech Companies Look To Clean Energy To Slake Their Enormous Thirst
"According to Lux Research, IT’s largest companies have set goals of becoming carbon neutral by 2030. To reach that goal, the sector will need to add a minimum of 40 GW (gigaWatt) of renewable energy generation capacity, or 20 GW of nuclear, or 30 GW of mixed, in the next nine years."
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Military and Environmentalists Align to Protect Key Coastal Salt Marsh
"A long stretch of salt marsh that hugs the East Coast from North Carolina to Florida is being targeted for conservation under a unique agreement reached by state and federal officials, including several Pentagon leaders concerned about climate change."
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