The European Union wants to lead the world in fighting climate change, but its massive and influential investment bank, which funds energy projects around the continent, is stuck as member nations debate how to care for the...
Key Takeaway: Eco-friendly startups are hoping to disrupt the lightly regulated dry cleaning industry — but first they have to teach customers why words like “green” and...
Key Takeaway: Scientists are responding to efforts by the Trump Administration to eliminate federal advisory committees by providing research-based evidence to shape decision-making.
The scientists who pioneered rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and opened up the possibility of a carbon-free future were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
“They have laid the foundation of a wireless, fossil fuel-free society,...
Key Takeaway: Google, Amazon and other companies announcing plans to source renewable energy appear to taking real measures to cut emissions, and moving away from the practice...
Key Takeaway: Science for 1.5C Cities, a side-event held in UN’s basement last week, showcased the potential of new approach to climate change: letting cities take the...
Key Takeaway: The burning of biomass, trees, plants and animal poop, was once seen as a renewable fuel and answer to the climate crisis. It’s now getting...
A handful of European philanthropies have banded together to create the Clean Air Fund to support projects combatting air pollution, and to cut global deaths and health problems stemming from dirty air.
Announced at...
Car shoppers soon may have another option to consider when buying -- whether or not to add solar.
While vehicles powered entirely by the sun won’t be sold for a long time, if ever,...
Is it possible to change how the most ubiquitous building material on earth is made -- one so dirty that it accounts for nearly a tenth of greenhouse gases, yet so cheap to produce that it costs...
Key Takeaway: Amazon Employees for Climate Justice will strike today at the company’s Seattle headquarters to demonstrate for a zero-emissions plan and demand their company cut ties with oil and gas...
Billionaire Bill Gates has taken a side in the polarized issue of whether to dump fossil fuel stocks to effect climate change or hang on to them. Unlike the Church of England and some of the Rockefellers,...
Despite a small dip in projects in the most recent quarter, U.S. solar investors have reason for optimism.
The pipeline of utility-scale solar projects hit a record 37.9 gigawatts, according to the latest U.S....
While Goldman Sachs and others in private enterprise pour billions into solar projects, a patchwork quilt of state incentives and tax breaks across the U.S. still hold tremendous sway over investment in solar energy and installations of...
The timber industry, long associated with a range of environmental problems from removing oxygen-producing trees to ruining habitats, probably doesn’t rank high on many impact investors’ lists of favorite industries. A recent study from North Carolina won’t...
The Trump administration Thursday finalized the repeal of Obama-era clean water regulations that the president has called “oppressive,” the latest in a broad assault on environmental regulations.
The Waters of the United States rule...
The transition to a carbon-free future risks deepening racial inequality.
But two organizations will be trying to prevent this divide by boosting both access to solar power in one of the largest African American...
Startups are increasingly on the front line as the U.S. Department of Energy nibbles at using Blockchain technology to secure the energy grid from cyber attacks.
Internet security startup TFA Labs won a $199,660...
Loadsmart, a digital freight-booking company, is gaining venture and industry support for its initiative that may help shippers cut fuel use and time at ports.
The company raised $19 million from Maersk Growth, the...
Solar and wind energy aren’t spreading slowly because big oil is plotting against them, no matter what conspiracy theorists say. A far more mundane factor is at play -- batteries.
Power is needed even...
The U.S. is the world’s biggest spender on clean energy efforts, yet only Norway and Finland are living up to a pledge to double public investments needed for a transition to cleaner energy, a survey found.
As one of the world’s driest places, Dubai may not seem like an obvious choice for water-generated electricity.
But the United Arab Emirates state sits in the middle of a region that has become...
Maryland denied permits for two solar projects citing threats to a stream in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, highlighting tradeoffs that arise when pushing renewable energy projects.
The projects would have required clear-cutting 400 acres...
LO3 is seeking nothing less than to transform energy production and distribution with its blockchain-based software, and has heavy-hitting backers willing to support their quest.
Blockchain has become a potential game-changer in the energy...
The Trump administration is moving to abolish rules enacted under former President Barack Obama on emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas linked to climate change, in what amounts to the latest assault by the White House...
Lithium stockpiles are growing and prices are tumbling, as new Australian mines open while Chinese electric car sales stall.
Prices have tumbled more than 40% over the past year to $9.25 a kilogram of...
As the United Arab Emirates grapples with growing plastic pollution from its rapidly-rising population, two local companies say they can help tackle the crisis.
Dubai-based Purecog says it has developed a water-soluble, biodegradable plastic...
The “too much of a good thing” rule may be proving true in California’s electricity market as the state faces looming power shortfalls beginning next year after aggressive moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions also curbed power...
Natural gas flaring is more than just blasts of flames jetting high above the New Jersey Turnpike and gas wells around the world. The burning off of excess natural gas spews carbon into the atmosphere, and big...
More than half a million Californians are working in clean energy industries, outnumbering jobs in the fossil fuel industry by almost five to one, as the state leads the U.S. in the implementation of renewable energy and...
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