"The New York plan, which could begin next May, would charge drivers who cross below 60th Street in Manhattan, perhaps as much as $23 a trip. The objective is to reduce traffic and air pollution in the city while delivering $1bn a year to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to upgrade the city’s subways and buses. A win-win-win, it would seem."
"The technology builds on years of research led by Matt Eisaman, the company’s CTO and co-founder, who recently joined Yale University’s Center for Natural Carbon Capture as a faculty member. Eisaman first met Tarbell, a former SolarCity executive, several years ago when both were working with Alphabet’s innovation arm, X."
As one of the most popular and safest forms of global transportation, aviation is essential to powering modern life. Air travel helps move goods around the world and empowers people to explore the world. With respect to other forms of transportation, aviation has a relatively small contribution to the world’s climate footprint —accounting for around...
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A cohort of some of the world’s leading automakers is teaming up to build a vast network of EV charging stations across North America. The carmakers––General Motors (GM), BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, and Stellantis––will invest an initial $1 billion to erect thousands of vehicle charging ports along major U.S. and Canadian highways and in...
"If funded and completed, the two carbon-removal hubs would remove roughly 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually and store it underground. That amount is equivalent to the annual emissions of about 220,000 gasoline-powered cars, which is a fraction of what is needed overall to limit climate change. Each project would be roughly 250 times bigger than the only direct-air capture facility currently in commercial operation."
"There’s an old joke that a farmer’s top three priorities are yield, yield and yield. Some scientists remain skeptical that Pivot’s biological solutions can replace chemical solutions on a grand scale without hurting yields. But so far, most of Pivot’s customers are coming back for more, which suggests they’re seeing financial benefits. Those benefits could increase if more countries crack down on nitrous oxide, as the Dutch government did in January. And the economics could become even more favorable as fledgling carbon markets begin to reward farmers for reducing emissions from fertilizer use."
"As it gets late in the afternoon, the winds will start to die right down. Then we’ll start coming in and doing all of our night burns so we can get more control of that fire and make it do exactly what we want. If you come into one of our burns, what we call cold burns, you can literally walk along with the fire, touch the soil. Green grasses are still there."
Almost 1 in 7 new cars sold last year was a battery electric vehicle
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