"MethaneSat will be able to capture leaks as low as 5 kilograms per hour per square kilometer — and 'if there’s an oil and gas producing area that’s leaking less than that, you’re doing really, really well' in preventing typical emissions, he said."
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How Your Hot Showers And Toilet Flushes Can Help the Climate
"The device works like a reversible air conditioning unit. In the winter, it will transfer energy from the sewage into a clean-water loop connecting the buildings, adding heat to indoor spaces. The process can then be flipped to keep things cool in the summer."
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The Coca-Cola Company And The Ocean Cleanup Join Forces To Clean Up 15 Of The World’s Most Polluting Rivers Of Plastic Waste
"The Coca Cola Company and The Ocean Clean-Up project have announced they will be collaborating on a ground-breaking partnership to clean up some of the world’s worst polluting rivers - and collect plastic waste which can be recycled to make new bottles."
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Redwood Materials Spending ‘Hundreds Of Millions’ To Speed Recycling For EV Batteries
"Redwood Materials, a battery recycler created by Tesla cofounder JB Straubel, says it’s more than tripling the size of its operations in Nevada and will spend 'hundreds of millions' to scale up recovery of lithium, cobalt, nickel and other commodity metals it sells to makers of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles."
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Solo solar no more: Regional home solar installers join forces
Some regional and local installers are making a play for larger markets, consolidating their efforts in a bid to compete with national peers.
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Drought is stressing California’s power grid
"Rolling blackouts have already become a new norm for the state as utilities shut down power lines in an attempt to avoid sparking fires during hot, dry weather. But summertime outages also occur when residents crank up their air conditioners to beat the heat and demand outpaces the available power supply."
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Former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Speaks About Energy, Environment on Right Voices Series
During Bernhardt’s time in charge of the Interior Department, the Great American Outdoors Act, one of the most significant public lands bills in recent history, was passed.
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Climate-driven weather extremes will worsen without deep emissions cuts, UN warns
Josh Siegel of The Washington Examiner reports on a new U.N. climate report. “Global warming from the use of fossil fuels is aggravating extreme weather across the world and the problem will become significantly worse with further emissions, the United Nations said in a major new report on Monday.” Read the full article here.
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The urban-rural climate divide should be bridged by nature
"While we cannot stop at natural climate solutions and must continue building a consensus for clean energy and other solutions, the beauty of nature-based solutions is that they serve many purposes to many stakeholders and can be enacted right now."
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First look: Real estate firms invest $140 million in climate tech
"Fifth Wall, a venture firm focused on technology for the real estate industry, says the new investors in its climate tech fund include large players such as Equity Residential, Hudson Pacific Properties, Invitation Homes, Ivanhoe Cambridge and others."
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