"Too often, their work is made much more difficult — if not impossible — by far-left environmental groups who use strategic lawsuits to prevent forest management activities from taking place. It’s time that elected officials in the nation’s capital put an end to these abusive lawsuits or, at a minimum, roll back some of the worst impacts."
America’s first new nuclear reactor in nearly seven years starts operations
"Initial cost estimates for both reactors were $14 billion, and they were expected to power up in 2016 and 2017. But the costs have ballooned to $30 billion so far, and unit 4 is still not turned on, nuclear energy experts Matt Bowen, Rama T. Ponangi, and Andrew Evans from Columbia said."
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon falls 66% in August
Reuters reports that deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon has declined by 66% in August. “Deforestation in the Amazon causes the loss of many species and their habitats, negatively impacts indigenous people and their health, causes fire, an increase in CO2 emission, soil erosion, flooding, desertification, pollution of rivers and lands, and negatively alters water cycle around...
Is this Chicago-area startup the ‘Tesla of heavy-duty’ trucking?
"Blumreiter and Johnson co-founded ClearFlame Engine Technologies to market engine technology that allows trucks, generators and other motors to run on a variety of low-emissions fuels such as ethanol, methanol or liquid ammonia. While these fuels are not zero emissions, various studies have shown pure ethanol’s life cycle greenhouse gas emissions are roughly 40 percent to 50 percent less than petroleum-based fuel."
CEOs Increasingly See Sustainability as Path to Profitability
“CEOs increasingly are embracing the idea that a company’s environmental, social and governance practices will play a role in its future success.”
One of the World’s Tiniest Nuclear Plants Is Coming to Idaho
The Aurora reactor is the first ever reactor to produce power through nuclear waste.
US nuclear start-ups battle funding challenge in race to curb emissions
"The industry is racing to develop SMRs — new types of advanced nuclear reactors that have a power capacity of 300MW or less, which is about a third of standard facilities. Governments and private investors — including Rolls-Royce, GE and Hitachi — have spent billions of dollars to commercialise the technology over the past decade."
How climate change alarmists are actually endangering the planet
“This alarmism is not only false but morally unjust. It leads us to make poor decisions based on fear, when the world not only has gotten better, but will be even better over the century.”
Some Good News for 2024
Market forces and innovation are driving down the cost of climate progress.
9 Ways You Can Plant More Trees This Year
“Tree planting is no longer an activity exclusively for farmers, gardeners or green-fingered folk. Whoever you are, wherever you live and however limited or abundant your resources, you can plant trees this year.”
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