"[L]ow earners funnel a bigger share of their budgets to transportation costs and other staples, like food and energy, relative to wealthier households."
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Europe Turns to an Unlikely Source to Replace Russian Energy: Ukraine
"Maxim Timchenko, DTEK’s chief executive, said that once the statcoms or batteries are in place, exports can rise slowly to 1.6 gigawatts a day, up from current deliveries of about 350 megawatts a day to Poland and Moldova, and that they could rise further if more power lines to Europe are restored. 'Ukraine can become one of the major suppliers of clean energy to the European countries,' he said."
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RepAir Develops an Efficient and Low-Heat Direct Air Capture System to Remove CO2 from the Atmosphere
Since the Industrial Revolution, mass amounts of carbon dioxide have accumulated in the atmosphere. While natural cycles draw down carbon dioxide, the process can take anywhere from 300 to 1,000 years. With emissions on the rise, technologies that capture and store atmospheric CO2 will become an important part of efforts to decarbonize globally. There are...
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Lithos, a Seattle agtech startup that uses basalt rocks to help farmers remove carbon, lands $6.3M
"The startup uses software to custom-deploy the basalt rock based on variables such as soil chemistry and crop nutrition. The software also measures carbon removal volume."
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Critical-Mineral Diplomacy Needs to Focus on Supply, Not Demand
"The EU struggled politically to deal with competitive bidding among its member states first for vaccines during the Covid-19 pandemic, then for natural gas after Russia cut pipeline supplies last year. It understandably wants to avoid similar problems with new-energy metals. But high vaccine and gas prices caused by competitive bidding also generated results: Europe got vaccinated and gas inventories were refilled. Likewise, last year’s sky-high lithium prices triggered investment. Politicians dull price signals at their peril."
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New Land Grab by Oil Giants Is Deep Underground
"Occidental in March announced it had leased 55,000 acres for carbon sequestration in three Texas counties, including Chambers, where Dugat’s ranch is located—part of at least 287,000 acres it has secured for the purpose across Texas and Louisiana. Chevron and two partners said the same month that they had leased 100,000 acres to store carbon in Chambers and neighboring Jefferson counties alone—more than a 10th of the counties’ total land area."
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New Report Analyzes How States Are Leading in Conservation Efforts
The results of PERC’s study are a mixed bag, but it is encouraging to see that many states are making it easier to spur private conservation practices.
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Plant-Based Plastics Gain Favor as Companies Pursue Sustainability Goals
"Plants absorb the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide, which cuts the greenhouse-gas emissions from making bioplastics to at least half that of fossil-fuel-based plastics. Bioplastics can also sometimes cause less pollution when they degrade in the environment."
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California’s Failed Climate Change Policy
“This year’s record-breaking fire season demonstrates that the State needs to take a less doctrinaire and more pragmatic approach toward addressing climate change.”
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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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