“While electric vehicles are a growing technology, new corporate lobbying efforts — especially by powerful companies — could help spur faster growth in what remains a largely niche market.”
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U.S., UK, Canada Ink Trilateral Memo to Cooperate on Advanced Reactor Licensing
"The MOC will supersede earlier bilateral agreements between the entities. These include separate memoranda of understanding (MOU) for cooperation and exchange of information 'in nuclear regulatory matters' between the NRC and the CNSC, signed in March 2023; an MOU between the NRC and the ONR, signed in October 2020, and an MOU between the CNSC and the ONR, signed in October 2020."
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This Is How Black Friday Hurts The Planet—But Attitudes Are Changing
“‘I think the study from Money.co.uk is sobering because it shows the alarming quantity of emissions involved in delivering things to our homes, but that’s really only looking at the very end of the process,’ Capstick says. ‘What the report doesn’t get at is why we’re doing this in the first place. The fundamental question to ask is: ‘why are we buying all this stuff?’”
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Joe Biden’s Green Dreams Mean Greater Dependence on China
"Even if Biden were able to encourage America automakers to rethink their production lines, China still controls the parts.”
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We Can Preserve Jobs, Affordable Energy, and a Clean Environment with the Keystone XL Pipeline
“The inability to move forward with Keystone XL is symbolic of a broader problem with energy projects and infrastructure, generally: the unnecessary delays to build just about anything."
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Policies Come And Policies Go, But The Market Is In The Driver’s Seat
“Yet while these politically-motivated moves appear to be driving our energy policy, lurching first one way, then another, energy researchers say the reality is that markets and emerging technologies are both pushing towards a carbon-free future, regardless of U.S. domestic energy policy.”
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The Biden administration should build, not backtrack, on energy progress
"The top priority must be to continue producing U.S. energy. Over the past four years, the Department of Energy advanced a true all-of-the-above policy that leveraged all fuels and all technologies to enhance our energy and national security as well as hasten the transition to less carbon-intensive fuels by developing nations."
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The Challenge of Building a New Plant: Paying the Electric Bill
"Domestic production of smelter aluminum—which is known as primary aluminum—is on pace this year for 689,000 metric tons, which would be the lowest since 1950. Smelters have been steadily going out of business for years, pinched between stagnant aluminum prices and escalating power costs, which in some cases have climbed by more than one-third in recent years."
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Trees 101: Why They’re Essential in the Fight Against Climate Change
Innovation is the key to fighting climate change. But nature has already provided the best innovation imaginable: trees. Here are five ways trees help to fight climate change.
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For FarmWise’s Cofounders, Opportunity Was In The Weeds
"Rented at a per-acre cost, the geo-fenced robots drive along planted rows, capturing images of crops that get uploaded and run through a model trained to classify each image. Weeds get the chop. Vegetables remain. The more time a robot spends at a given farm, the better the AI gets, and so does the weeding. To date, FarmWise’s robots have imaged about 200 million individual crops and partnered with about a dozen of the largest vegetable farms in the U.S."
