ZeroAvia is aiming to create greener, cleaner skies.
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How global trade could fragment after the EU’s tax on ‘dirty’ imports
"Adolfo Aiello, deputy director-general at Eurofer, says European steelmakers could face competition on multiple fronts: not just from 'cheaper dirty steel' but also 'greener steel from third countries.' The risk, he adds, is that the EU becomes 'a demand centre for green steel' with dirty steel being diverted elsewhere. The result, he says, 'would be a net negative impact on the climate.'"
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How technology and artificial intelligence are bolstering the battle against wildfires
"Other firetech startups include Overstory, which is using AI to work with utility companies to analyse satellite data and identify wildfire risk from vegetation growing near power lines. California-based Rain is working with fire agencies to use autonomous drones that use sensors to identify fires before they rage out of control. Software and thermal cameras also allow them to fight the fires from the air."
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Goodyear Unveils Plans for an EV Future With New Tires at CES
"The company’s new EV product is expected to feature materials including soybean oil used in the tire’s construction as well as sustainably sourced natural rubber as well as high-quality rice husk ash silica, which is a byproduct when rice is processed."
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How Free Trade Helps the Environment
Rather than increasing costs for clean technologies and adding artificial barriers for emerging markets to access industrialized ones, leaders should turn to free trade to meet the world’s economic, energy, and climate needs.
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America Has Plenty of Natural Gas. So Why Is New England Left Out in the Cold?
"The tankers of cheap gas loaded along the Gulf Coast aren’t allowed to deliver to Everett or anywhere else in the U.S. due to the Jones Act, a 1920 law meant to preserve the domestic shipbuilding industry that restricts domestic shipping routes to U.S.-built and American-crewed vessels."
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A new venture fund in Seattle aims to accelerate adoption of climate technologies that slash carbon
"Eidelson emphasizes that while Stepchange is driven by what he sees as a moral imperative — working as fast and aggressively as possible to slash carbon from every sector of the economy — he also expects it to succeed financially."
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Bipartisan Tax Agreement with Immediate Expensing Will Kickstart Innovation
Expensing is a truly win-win policy and the longer it remains lapsed, the more the American economy, U.S. competitiveness, and the environment suffer.
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The Rare Earths Mine That Won’t Need a Single Shovel
"However, Rainbow is now working with K-Tech, a Lakeland, Fla.-based chemical technology firm, on a novel approach to processing the rare earths further into more valuable rare-earth oxides. It is testing out a faster, more environmentally friendly way, known as continuous-ion chromatography, which has been used in photography. Bennett hopes to start producing rare-earth oxides with K-Tech on a trial basis by the end of March."
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This startup is removing carbon from the air — and here’s why JetBlue is backing it
"Both water and captured carbon can be used to make sustainable aviation fuel. That was particularly attractive to investor JetBlue Ventures, the venture capital arm of the airline, which invests in companies attempting to change the travel industry."
