"Most of H&M’s clothing is made in Asia, led by China and Bangladesh. The company works directly with 574 suppliers that operate 1,027 factories across Europe, Asia and North America."
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Exclusive: Gulf state UAE considers a second nuclear power plant
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Anti-ESG Legislation is Unpopular and Costly
Rather than restricting certain investment strategies, policymakers should embrace policies that unlock investor freedom and leave politics out of it.
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Wall Street Wants In on America’s Battery Storage Boom
"Storage capacity in the U.S. has grown enough in recent years to be able to power many millions of homes, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. California and Texas dominate the industry, but projects are in the works in Nevada, Arizona and elsewhere to help meet growing power demand from artificial-intelligence data centers and manufacturing plants."
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Serbia plans to develop nuclear energy, reversing a 1989 ban on nuclear
"A preliminary study is now planned to provide an analysis of the available technologies and requirements to help inform decisions to be taken. The development of nuclear energy is now considered by the Serbian Government a key development for the sovereignty and independence of the country, while simultaneously protecting the environment and the health of the citizens."
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The Contradictions of Biden Climate Policy in Profile
"Whether to mine on Alaska’s pristine land is a debate worth having. But if the minerals aren’t mined in the U.S., they’ll be sourced from overseas, where in many cases China dominates both mining and processing. If the Biden administration continues to stymie domestic mining projects, it can say hello to international dependence and kiss its net-zero agenda goodbye."
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Demand for rare elements used in clean energy could help clean up abandoned coal mines in Appalachia
"Other solutions to obtain more of these metals are retrieving them from discarded devices and shifting sourcing to friendly nations and away from geopolitical rivals or unstable countries, analysts say. For now, there is only a handful of critical or rare earth mineral mines in the United States, although many more are being proposed."
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State and Local Permitting Restrictions on Solar Energy Development
"In our analysis of wind ordinances, we found that not only were there numerous county-level wind ordinances but that the rate of adoption for new ordinances was accelerating. While there are fewer solar ordinances, this trend is similar for PV solar, which also has an accelerating rate of adoption of new ordinances restricting siting. As a caveat, the NREL database does not have the adoption year for every ordinance, so this assessment is only using ordinances for which there is such data collected. And, similar to our finding with wind ordinances, as solar power becomes more common, so too do ordinances restricting it."
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