"The state's average price for a gallon of regular gas went up from $4.671 on Sunday, which itself broke an all-time record set in 2012, according to AAA."
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Nuclear Shines Bright at COP26
"To reach our ambitious global climate objectives, we need every tool in the toolbox to reduce emissions, and including nuclear energy needs to be a priority. Of course, COP26 is just a brief moment in time, and momentum will need to be sustained."
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Environmentalists Oppose Lithium Mining in Nevada
"So, we can’t mine and burn coal. We can’t drill and burn oil or natural gas. We need to end the use of internal-combustion engines. And now, we can’t mine lithium. Sometimes I think these anti-modernity throwbacks won’t be satisfied until we return to the caves."
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How Much Do Electric Vehicles Cost to ‘Fill Up’ Compared With Buying Gasoline?
"Driving habits can make a big difference in efficiency, and are even more important for EV owners. Flooring it in an EV might be fun, but eats away at fuel-cost savings. Heating and cooling can also have a bigger impact on EV efficiency, according to IHS Markit."
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These ingenious floors use 70% less concrete and 90% less steel
"The most polluting part of a building is hiding underfoot. Floors account for more than 40% of most multi-story buildings’ total mass, and many of the surfaces that hold up office floors and apartments are made of concrete."
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Finance firms join group to deploy private capital in climate flight
"The aim is to funnel the alliance’s collective $130 trillion in assets (representing 40% of the world’s capital) into projects that help the globe reach the target set out by the Paris agreement of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius."
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Small box turns waste into treasure for Ivory Coast farmers
"The small green 'KubeKo' box was dreamt up by chemical engineer Noel N'guessan to make use of the 30 million tonnes of waste generated by crop production in the West African country each year and other biowaste like animal dung."
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Pacific Northwest companies merge and raise cash to build energy efficient, modular construction tech
Lisa Stifler of GeekWire writes on two Pacific Northwest companies that have merged to build energy-efficient modular construction tech. “There’s general agreement that the construction sector is well overdue for modernizing, and many see modular or prefab technology as part of the solution. NODE has been developing an approach to building energy-saving homes out of...
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Power lines are infrastructure bill’s big climate win
"The change has the potential to boost clean energy projects that have run into permitting challenges, analysts said. The infrastructure bill’s package notably came during a week that saw voters in Maine strike down a proposed transmission line intended to carry electricity from dams in Quebec to consumers in New England. The constitutionality of that referendum is being challenged in court."
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Free Markets Are the Best and Fastest Way to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions
"A freer market also means that a country's carbon emissions are already falling. C3 Solutions' Director of Public Policy Nick Loris made this clear in his report, 'Free Economies are Clean Economies.'"