"Policymakers must stay on offense in the 118th Congress. Rounding the edges on these policies will enable Team USA to out-compete Chinese and Russian enterprises with American innovation. The World Nuclear Association states that, at the end of October, China was operating 53 commercial power reactors, making it third in the world after France, which has 56 reactors. The U.S., leading with 92 operating reactors, but only has two units under construction, while China has 23 reactors under construction. The U.S. must deploy and export innovative American nuclear technologies to retain its global nuclear influence."
New cash for “micro-fusion” startup
"'We want to build the smallest fusion reactor in the world. Then we’re talking about a project that’s maybe tens of millions of dollars, not billions, and you could actually do it with a small team,'" Avalanche CEO Robin Langtry tells the paper."
Is an answer to global overfishing and its subsidies on the horizon?
"After more than 20 years of negotiations, WTO members finally seem intent on reeling back the subsidies that fund these destructive practices. Last year, negotiators agreed to significantly curtail some fishing subsidies, including limiting or prohibiting them to 'Vessels or operators engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing or fishing-related activities in support of IUU fishing,' 'fishing or fishing-related activities regarding stocks that are overfished' and 'fishing or fishing-related activities on the unregulated high seas.'"
Clean Up Environmental Regulations for a Cleaner Environment
Lawmakers control the purse strings, and that gives them the power to drive positive change. By slashing through red tape and encouraging environmental innovation, they can improve American policy and help deliver a cleaner environment.
Natural Disasters Are Rising. This ETF Stands to Gain From Recovery Efforts.
"The strategy is an equal-weight ETF with 49 stocks, including chip maker Nvidia (NVDA), whose shares have risen more than 200% this year. Chanin said while most investors are focused on the chips and artificial intelligence side of the company, what makes the stock relevant to his ETF is its work with risk simulation."
This Company Is Turning Waste Into Clean Hydrogen. And Electricity. And Water
"The facility's completion comes as the U.S. pushes for greater use of hydrogen from sources that don’t generate carbon dioxide. California has provided incentives for such clean power projects for years — particularly at Southern California ports that have among the worst air pollution in the country — and the Biden Administration is enacting generous new federal tax credits for clean hydrogen of up to $3 per kilogram. Billionaire Bill Gates calls hydrogen a Swiss Army Knife in the fight to curb rising greenhouse gas emissions that are slowly cooking the planet thanks to all the ways it can be used, from power generation, energy storage, cleaner production of fertilizer, ammonia and steel or as fuel for trucks, cars, ships and aircraft."
Renewables Industry Faces Environmentalist Challenges
"If Taiwan fails to meet the green energy and natural gas goals while facing a hard deadline for eliminating nuclear power, it will either face power shortages or be forced to continue operating coal-fired power plants that were set to be retired."
Coronavirus Pandemic Speeds Shift to Cleaner Energy
“The world’s transition to cleaner sources of energy is gaining speed as the coronavirus pandemic accelerates a shift in investment away from fossil fuels, according to the International Energy Agency.”
Quarterly Warning On Copper Before It Derails The Energy Transition
"A lot of the drivers for recent protests of copper mines, and of the companies producing them, are due to ESG concerns. It remains unclear if the connection will be made that without copper there will be no energy transition, or if the snake will simply keep eating its tail."
Utilities Look to Green Hydrogen to Cut Carbon Emissions
“U.S. utilities are increasingly exploring the use of what is called green hydrogen made from wind and solar energy to reduce emissions from power plants and pipelines.”