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The latest VC money for cleaner concrete
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The latest VC money for cleaner concrete

"[Carbon cure is] among several startups attracting capital to make climate-friendly concrete and cut the massive emissions from the production of cement, a key concrete component."

The Two Billionaires Reimagining Nuclear Energy
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The Two Billionaires Reimagining Nuclear Energy

"Bill Gates’ nuclear venture is called TerraPower, and it has (rather symbolically) picked a remote coal town in western Wyoming as the site of its first innovative nuclear power plant. The plant will be cooled with liquid sodium instead of water, making it safer, more efficient, and more cost-effective than a traditional nuclear plant. They also have the potential to recycle their own spent fuel within these ‘molten salt’ cooling systems, thereby mitigating the total output of radioactive waste which represents one of nuclear critics’ strongest sticking points."

Offshore wind farms could help capture carbon from air and store it long-term – using energy that would otherwise go to waste
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Offshore wind farms could help capture carbon from air and store it long-term – using energy that would otherwise go to waste

"Replacing fossil fuel-based energy with clean energy like wind power is essential to holding off the worsening effects of climate change. But that transition isn’t happening fast enough to stop global warming. Human activities have pumped so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that we will also have to remove carbon dioxide from the air and lock it away permanently."

Supreme Court Can and Should Resolve ‘Waters of the United States’ Issue
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Supreme Court Can and Should Resolve ‘Waters of the United States’ Issue

"By clarifying that the standard for WOTUS, including wetlands, should be based on Scalia’s plurality opinion in Rapanos, the Supreme Court will ensure that the agencies have the clear guidance they need to develop a WOTUS regulatory definition that does properly reflect Supreme Court decisions, the Clean Water Act, and the Constitution. Absent this, there will be continued confusion."

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