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Biden promised to install thousands of EV charging stations. Only 7 have been built. - Washington Post - Climate and Environment  (Mar 28) |
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Mar 28 · President Biden has long vowed to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations in the United States by 2030. Those stations, the White House said, would help Americans feel confident purchasing and driving electric cars, and help the country cut carbon pollution. But now, more than two years after Congress allocated $7.5 billion to help build out those stations, only 7 EV charging stations are operational across four states. And as the Biden administration rolls out its new rules for emissions from cars and trucks - which will require a lot more electric cars and hybrids on the road - the sluggish build-out could slow the transition to electric cars. “I think a lot ... Read more ... |
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China is all in on green tech. The U.S. and Europe fear unfair competition. - Washington Post - Climate and Environment  (Mar 29) |
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Mar 29 · CHENGDU, China - A decade ago, Tongwei Group was a maker of fish food and livestock feed. Today, the company, based in this famously overcast corner of southwest China, is the world’s largest producer of solar cells, the components of panels that turn sunlight into electricity. At its $2.8 billion facility on the outskirts of Chengdu, robotic arms stacked the delicate cells on autonomous carts that zipped between production stages. Productivity has gone up 161 percent - and the number of workers down by 62 percent - thanks to 5G equipment from homegrown technology giant Huawei, the company says. Tongwei now has even grander ambitions: It is rapidly expanding and ... Read more ... |
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Climate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clocks - Washington Post - Climate and Environment  (Mar 27) |
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Mar 27 · Climate change is messing with time itself. The melting of polar ice due to global warming is affecting Earth’s rotation and could have an impact on precision timekeeping, according to a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The planet is not about to jerk to a halt, nor speed up so rapidly that everyone gets flung into space. But timekeeping is an exact science in a highly technological society, which is why global authorities more than half a century ago felt compelled by the slight changes in Earth’s rotation to invent the concept of the “leap second.” Climate change is now making these calculations even more complicated: In just a few years it may be ... Read more ... |
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Indoor farms are remaking the produce market - at a cost to the planet - Washington Post - Climate and Environment  (Mar 27) |
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Mar 27 · No one would argue that the climate in North Texas is ideal for growing lettuce, a crop that thrives when there’s a chill in the air. But the region’s boiling summers are of no concern to Eddy Badrina, the chief executive of Eden Green Technology, a vertical, hydroponic greenhouse company located just outside of Dallas. The company, which sells its leafy greens to Walmart, controls every aspect of a plant’s life. Inside its 82,500 square foot facility, cool air is pumped in to create the ideal microclimate around each baby butterhead and romaine lettuce. Seven miles of pipes deliver nutrient-rich water. Although natural light floods the space - setting it apart from other ... Read more ... |
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U.S. clamps down on oil and gas firms releasing potent greenhouse gas - Washington Post - Climate and Environment  (Mar 27) |
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Mar 27 · Oil and gas companies will need to stem the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from their drilling operations on federal and tribal lands under a highly anticipated rule the Biden administration finalized Wednesday. The rule from the Bureau of Land Management, an arm of the Interior Department, builds on the Biden administration’s broader strategy for tackling methane, which accounts for nearly a third of global warming. Cutting methane emissions is one of the fastest ways to slow climate change, because it traps 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere. The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled plans for preventing ... Read more ... |
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Why Tennessee lawmakers are pushing a bill to keep government from spraying the sky - Washington Post - Climate and Environment  (Mar 27) |
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Mar 27 · Republican state lawmakers are going after a new threat they say could cause harm to the environment - and playing into a baseless claim at the same time. In a Tennessee bill passed by the state Senate last week, lawmakers targeted geoengineering, an experimental - and controversial - practice not yet in use that could help cool the planet amid climate change. But the text of the bill can also be seen as referring to “chemtrails,” plumes of toxic chemicals that believers of the unfounded claim say governments and corporations are spewing into the sky. Now, the confusion between solar geoengineering and chemtrails threatens to muddy the waters around nascent ... Read more ... |
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